Dreaming in Constellations
Emily Leathers
Passions and dreams don’t come together in pre-packaged sets that are inherent to what they are or just naturally make more sense than other combinations. Your passions and dreams fit together because YOU are the common denominator: what brings you joy, how you see the world, how your unique body and brain work.
In this workshop, Emily shares her Dreaming in Constellations method: First, you’ll gather all of your dreams into one beautiful galaxy, and identify specific skills to gain or open questions to answer that will help you continue to do cooler and cooler things over the course of your life. Then you’ll design and implement a fast, focused experiment to grow one of those skills or answer one of those open questions.
During the presentation you will craft an overall view of your dreams, the threads that those dreams have in common and specific skills, experiments and open questions you’ll need to tackle in order to reach those goals. You’ll also choose one specific goal to start working towards first, and design a bite-sized Waypoint: a meaningful, durable step towards that long-term goal that you can complete in the next 2 weeks (even with everything else going on in your life).
After the presentation you should take action to do that Waypoint. Then celebrate, rest, reflect and refuel. Rinse and repeat to blast off towards your next Waypoint!
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Emily Leathers helps changemakers bring their big dreams to life. When her brain isn’t designing new tools for helping everyone change the world faster, she’s laughing with her partner, their 2yo and their two cats, reading science fiction, designing tabletop roleplay game systems that bring her dreams of a non-extraction economy to life, knitting and singing a cappella. You may also notice that she deeply loves a good extended metaphor.
Emily offers courses, workshops and coaching to anyone looking to create change in their lives, work or the world around them faster or more sustainably. Her work focuses on being accessible and useful to everyone: whether you have one big dream or fifty thousand, whether you’re just building your personal power or leading global social change movements.
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Dreaming in Constellations: Build your unique career plan without choosing One True Dream Job
Feeling stuck in your career because you’re not 105% sure exactly what title and company your next Dream Job is?
It’s not just you. It’s a silly societal message that makes us think we’re supposed to know. But there’s a much better method. One that lets you keep all of your dreams, add new ones anytime you want, and still make meaningful career progress every week.
If that sounds magical, you’re right. And the best parts are that it’s super simple, it works for any career path and it means you can finally explain to your manager or mentor what growth you want their help with next.
So focus on your dreams, your experiments and your growth, and throw those silly societal messages out the window.
(And be sure to join me for Office Hours on June 13th – where we’ll chat 1:1 via text or voice messages about your dreams, constellations, how to reach them, places you’re feeling stuck and anything else related to the Dreaming in Constellations summit talk or course!)
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