Pathfinder Programme - On Purpose
About this Programme
The past 18 months has led many of us to question our purpose and whether how we live is in line with what we believe is good for ourselves and our world. Using the principles of design thinking you’ll gain a new sense of purpose and confidence - and be ready to lead a purposeful life in our uncertain world.
Paid-for training
Programme type
Online / Virtual
Location
About the Programme
Are you looking to move your life in a new direction? Do you want your work and your life to fit with your own values? Has the pandemic made you want to find something more meaningful in your life and work?
This uncertain time has led many of us to question our purpose and whether how we live is in line with what we believe is good for ourselves and our world.
For ten years On Purpose has been helping people transition into careers, but more profoundly lives, with more meaning and purpose.
Through our newest course, the On Purpose Pathfinder programme we’ll teach you the principles of design thinking to help you gain a new sense of purpose and confidence - and be ready to lead a purposeful life in our uncertain world.
If you’re looking for an opportunity to create a life and career that feels meaningful to you, this is the course for you.
What will you learn?
Session 1: Understanding and Connecting
This session is all about making sense of your story so far so that you can understand your context. While working through some exercises and gaining clarity on your current situation, we will spend time connecting and creating a sense of community.
Session 2: Creating a life vision
With an understanding of your context, we then introduce different frameworks and visualisation to create the vision of where you want your life to be, which fully resonates and connects with who you are.
Session 3: Framing your Challenge
We support the next step by helping you understand the gap between where you are and where you want to be. By framing and defining the challenge or the gap it allows you to shift your perspective whilst also acknowledging the elements of your life that need to be accommodated or built into the life scenario.
Session 4: Generating Possibilities
This session is all about working with peers to brainstorm and generate lots of ideas for potential lives and careers. Through several design techniques, you will get inspiration from others and build a genuine sense of excitement about the different ways you might lead a fulfilled life.
Session 5: Making it Happen
Some things work, others less well but without trying something you will never know. This prototyping stage gets you to plan out how you are going to test some of the options and start making them happen. We show you how to plan, implement, test and learn.
Session 6: Maintaining Momentum
After a slightly longer break between sessions, the group shares what they did and learnt. We provide some tools about how you maintain momentum, how you might deal with self-doubt and enable you to leverage support from your cohort to create ongoing change and practice lasting habits.
You’ll leave the programme with…
- Clarity of direction: Achieve new clarity on the ….
- A sense of excitement and possibility about your life
- A community of like-minded peers for your journey
- New resolve and skills to navigate change and uncertainty
- New tools which will help you in your career and on your new path
- A whole host of new possibilities to continue exploring to give you a sense of purpose
What you’ll get as part of the programme
Starting in September this intensive course will contain:
- 6 live, facilitated online seminars (2.5 hrs each)
- Personal action and group discussion to stretch your learning
- Peer support groups to help support and guide you
- Guided activities between each seminar to develop your thinking
- Expert ‘life design’ coach leading each live seminar
- Follow up session to ensure that you feel supported in your journey
Who is it for?
This programme is for individuals at any point in their career or life who want to take action, it is for people who want to better understand the contribution they want to make to the world but also who want to look at new possibilities.
The programme offers a wonderful opportunity to deeply connect to yourself but also with others who are asking themselves the same questions.
It’s important to understand the programme is not just about the big changes you might make to your life or career, the programme also encourages you to look at those simple smaller changes. Changes to your mindsets or making new habits that really can shift things for you in your life.
You might be…
- Someone looking to change their career to one with greater purpose
- Someone looking to embed purpose into their existing career or life
- Someone interested in better navigating change and uncertainty
This is a great opportunity to connect with like-minded peers who also want to embed purpose in their work and lives.
Programme dates and cost
All times listed are in London / UK time. Your live seminars will focus on:
- Weds 22nd September 17:30 - 20:00 - Workshop 1: Understanding and Connecting
- Weds 6th October 17:30 - 20:00 - Workshop 2: Creating a Life Vision
- Weds 20th October 17:30 - 20:00 - Workshop 3: Framing your Challenge
- Weds 3rd November 17:30 - 20:00 - Workshop 4: Generating Possibilities
- Weds 17th November 17:30 - 20:00 - Workshop 5: Making it Happen
- Fireside chat with Tom Rippin
- Weds 15th December 17:30 - 20:00 - Workshop 6: Maintaining Momentum
The cost of this intensive, expert programme is £875 which can be paid either upfront or in four monthly instalments
On Purpose is a not-for-profit organisation, and any surplus made from this programme will be reinvested into our work with people and organisations to build a world that works for everyone, within planetary boundaries.
Bursary places
If you feel you are a brilliant fit for this programme but don’t have the means to join a limited number of means-tested bursary places are available - please contact us for more details.
Accepting final applications for the September 2021 intake. Apply now to avoid missing out!
Pathfinder participants
This is what some of our past Pathfinder participants had to say about their time on the programme...
Shalaka Laxman
"It has given me access to an incredible community of intelligent and socially conscious people and I'm looking forward to staying connected. The programme has also taught me how to develop tangible actions to steer my career (and life) into an impactful space that is meaningful to me."
Allison Hood
“The programme is geared towards clarifying a vision (big or small) and provides simple and effective tools to enable you to make it happen. Great for both those pivotal moments in a career and also for smaller life choices. I highly recommend it.”
Ed Blogg
“The On Purpose Pathfinder Program greatly surpassed my expectations. The course was very well structured with a plethora of practical tools that were easy to use but gave acutely personal outputs. The most valuable part in my view were the course peers. I’d highly recommend anyone to do the programme - if not now, when?”
Zhu Yihan
“I have been so lost when I tried to find what my purpose is. The program has provided me with tools to challenge myself and understand myself a bit more…but also being surrounded by the right people, ask thought provoking questions, has given me so much positive energy.”
Sam Rawbone
“If you're looking for help in improving the direction of your life - this is the dream programme for you. You'll come out wiser and stronger, with hopefully an awesome cohort you can call friends.”
Programme FAQs
All your questions should be answered here.
We are not a careers advisory programme but the Pathfinder Programme is all about finding direction and creating a life full of purpose, meaning and positive energy. Some participants focus on changes to their career whilst for others it is about better aligning their life to their values.
We give you the tools to get clarity on what you want in your life and work and empower you to make those changes.
On the Pathfinder Programme, we do not partner participants with a coach and mentor like we do in the year long Associate Programme.
However peer coaching and support is a key element of the programme. Between each fortnightly workshop, peers meet to build trust and accountability, share ideas and help each other keep momentum.
The Pathfinder Programme is a 5 month online course where you will use the principles of design thinking to help you create a life and career with intention and purpose. The six fortnightly facilitated, workshops and peer led sessions works alongside your work and life.
The Associate Programme is a year-long, full time leadership programme. You give up your current job to join and go to work in two work placements at purpose-driven organisations. This on the job learning is complemented by an weekly intensive learning and development programme. You are also partnered with an executive coach and mentor to support you through the year long programme.
Both programmes are deeply participatory and both enable you to connect deeply to yourself but also to a network of peers that are asking similar questions about the contribution they want to make to the world through their life and work.
