SI Programme

Writing the Future

 

“Traveler, there is no road; you make your own path as you walk.” - Antonio Machado

Programme Basics

Format: In-person workshop

Duration: 3 weekly full-day sessions 

Details on dates and registration will be shared shortly.

AI and other developments are disrupting the familiar career paths our forebears took for granted—even before we enter the workforce. What then are we to make of our future?

This module is for:

Anyone keen to proactively make a new path for ourselves, but especially graduating students and young professionals. Like all artists and writers facing a blank page, scarce resources and incomplete knowledge, you will learn to imagine, experiment, play, innovate, invent and thrive in the face of the new.

Offering practical wisdom from creative practitioners on authoring the world you want to see, you will explore how to:

  • Clarify and articulate your vision of the future you want to create
  • Contribute as well as collaborate with others towards realising your dream, whether you are an entrepreneur or finding your way in an organisation.
  • Apply practical principles for self and community care—personal, financial, psychological, affective, and effective—to sustain your work and flourish together.
  • Begin building a personal leadership practice grounded in systems awareness and complexity literacy—recognizing how your own presence and leadership approach enables or inhibits organizational regenerativity.

The workshop will be led by an award-winning expert with more than 30+ years of award-winning international experience in creative practice, professional experience and deep research, blended with Sequoia’s proven strategies in nurturing flourishing individuals and organisations worthy of commitment.

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