Self-Leadership

About

Self-Leadership is a hands-on self-leadership and well-being summer course that creates a framework for personal growth by providing a toolkit for structuring time, working on your wellbeing, and how to work smarter, not harder.

Do you struggle with the nagging feeling of frustration or being stuck? There could be many reasons: you are enslaved by your calendar, and you never stop running, or you know that you need a change in your life, but you don’t know where to start or how to find the courage to make it happen. Meanwhile, it feels like your life is passing you by. Do you want to have a manual with practical tools to help you understand the reasons behind your frustration and how to step out of it? This course will give you such a toolkit.

The undergraduate summer course Self-Leadership is highly practical. Students get to discuss the topics and get assignments connected to them. The core of the course is to equip every student with a practical toolkit of self-development exercises that they will be able to execute on their own long after the course.

The course covers life challenges and how to hack them; assessing your state; mindset flexibility and why we need it; goal setting, time management, self-compassion, resilience, maintaining motivation, empathic leadership and the art of small steps for habit formation.

Course leader

Lidia Rauramo works as an educator in design thinking, teamwork, leadership, self-leadership, well-being, and entrepreneurship. Currently, she is an educator at Aalto Ventures Program (AVP) and an internal coach at Aalto University and Sampo Accelerator. For more than six years, she has designed and taught offline, hybrid, and online programs, courses, and workshops for students and staff at Aalto University and educators across the globe. Before working at Aalto University, she worked for multiple years as a senior project manager in a large nuclear corporation and Think Tank. She has recently published the ebook Good Life Engine – Membership in the Anxiety Club.

Target group

This course does not require previous experience in the topic.

Participants must have completed a high school or vocational degree or equivalent by the time the course starts. However, they do not have to be a degree student at a university to participate in our courses.

Additionally, all summer school course students must be 18 years or older, as it is the legal age in Finland.

Course aim

- You will understand and gain a study/work-life balance without sacrificing progress towards your strategic goals. You will learn how to live, not to run a marathon.
- You will learn about yourself and your motivating factors
- You will define your strategic life goals, plan the journey towards them, and plan how to manage your time best to progress on this journey
- You will learn how to create new healthy habits, do the twists in your life to tackle anxiety and procrastination, learn how to keep motivation

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