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🎨 Draw on your Courage: Ft. The Stanford d.school

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About this FieldTrip

Doing what matters takes more than knowledge and skills. Whether you’re leading a team, launching a side hustle, or sharing a radical new idea with your boss, it takes more than preparedness to act, it takes guts.

This session will help diagnose something that you may be chickening out in your life or work on by breaking courage down into its four components: fear, values, action, change and then use the tools of design help you draw on your courage!

✨WHAT TO EXPECT

✔️ We’ll begin with de-constructing what courage means and why it matters.

✔️ Then we’ll take a look at some stories of designers and other professionals practicing everyday courage.

✔️ Next we will identify a clear and present conundrum in your own life: What’s something in your work or life you have spent time being prepared for (by gaining skills or acquiring knowledge) and yet are stuck on?

✔️ Then, we’ll do a series of exercises to clarify the values that power this aspiration for you and identify the fears that stop you from acting.

✔️ Finally, we’ll take a ‘Tiny Risk’ to help you fight this fear and start drawing on your courage.

✔️ Bonus: Along the way, you’ll also create a four-frame comic with you as the protagonist, i.e. you will also *literally* draw on courage.

🎒What To Bring

✔️ Paper & Pens


about your host

Ashish Goel is a designer, teacher and entrepreneur.

He is a former teaching fellow at the Stanford d.school where he has taught classes on design thinking, digital product design and mapmaking. He is also the former head of design at Zomato (India’s Doordash and Yelp rolled into one!). He is the author of a new book, Drawing on Courage: Risks Worth Taking and Stands Worth Making, part of a series of guides being published by the Stanford d.school.

He advises companies in the art and science of product design and is drawing on his courage by building Boca, an D2C sparkling water business based in India.


Event type

🎨 Artistic Exploration & Coaching


What to expect

Lecture format!

This is a more traditional format where participants absorb information through presentations and talks.

Real-time only!

This FieldTrip will not be recorded.

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Attendees

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Rayshauna Gray

Entrepreneur & Researcher at The Gray Area.

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Jamila Breese

Creative Director, Learning UX Lead at Kaiser Permanente.

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Kristin Fern Johnson

Content Marketing Consultant.

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Virginia Moore

Director, Communications and Marketing at Zenysis Technologies.

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Paola De Giovanni

Fashion historian turned marbling artist at KALEIDO MARBLING ART.

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cristina vanza

digital . design . photography at cristina vanza.

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Melissa A.

Senior Associate Director, Communications at University of Maryland.

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Sarah Haro

Production Team Lead at Design Works Studio, Inc..

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Tina Arnoldi

Marketing Consultant at 360 Internet Strategy.

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Tim Hamons

Creative Enabler, Visual Thinking Strategist at Art of Awakening.

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Tiina Liimu

artist and multidisciplinary creative at IATSE 891.

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How to make the most of FieldTrips

The FieldTrips experience is defined not only by what the host has to share, but also by how we show up individually and collectively. The way we show up impacts our capacity to be moved, inspired, and activated.

Show up fully

Get ready to be immersed! Engage with smiles, nods, waves, emojis. Share in the chat. Get cozy. Turn off notifications. Sip your favorite beverage.

Stay curious

Wear your beginner’s hat. Go with the flow. Welcome the stumbles and fumbles. Congratulate yourself for trying. Keep going! 

Celebrate your host

Our hosts are members of the CreativeMornings community—just like you! Everyone comes to this with different backgrounds—a lot of our hosts have never done anything like this before! And we love that! Cheer them on when something goes awry and when it goes perfectly.

Support each other

We’re all figuring things out in real time. Celebrate, rather than critique emerging ideas. Cheer each other on as you try new things.  Try “Yes! And…” in conversation.

Not vibing?

It’s 100% okay when a FieldTrip does not resonate with you. Pop out quietly and try another experience later. Fill out the survey with your feedback (no dms to host or chat commentary, please.)


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