The Life Design Leadership Certificate (LDLC) is a program that will help you develop the mindsets and tools necessary to live a meaningful, purpose-driven life as a leader on campus and beyond. This certificate, offered by the Marvin Center for Student Leadership and Office of Student Success and Life Design, will help participants build confidence navigating an unknown future and make meaningful contributions to their community and organization.  This certificate will build on the Life Design framework to empower you to enhance your personal and leadership development.

The LDLC is a six-week program that will take place on Tuesday evenings beginning Tuesday, March 2nd from 6-7:30 p.m. This program will take place virtually using the Zoom platform. Participants will receive a Zoom link, as well as an invitation to join the accompanied Canvas course, via email after registering for this opportunity. Should you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to us at leadership@bgsu.edu.

Session 1: Explore Your Viewpoints
In this session, participants will work to develop their college view, world view, and leadership view. Identifying and articulating these views will allow participants to reflect on how congruent they are. 

Session 2: Build Your Pathways 
In this session, participants will create 3 pathways for their leadership at BGSU. You will develop your current pathway, a sperate pathway as a backup, and a pathway without limitations. Participants will learn about the importance of generating more than one idea for an experience. 

Session 3: Create Your Dashboard
In this session, participants will reflect on their personal dashboard by looking at their own levels of work, play, love, and health in their life. Then, participants will create two dashboards that reflect their organization. One dashboard will be where the organization is now and then next will be where you want your organization to be. By the end of the session, participants will identify ways to meet their goal dashboards. 

Session 4: Design Thinking to Solve Problems
In this session participants will learn about the differences between anchor and gravity problems. We will reflect on anchor problems and gravity problems that you currently see in your group or organization. Then, participants will utilize design thinking to solve problems within their organization. 

Session 5: Mindsets of Design Thinking in Leadership
In this session, participants will learn about the 5 mindsets of the design thinking process as it relates to the process leadership. We will place emphasis on one mindset, radical collaboration.

Session 6: Problem Solving in a Community
Participants will use the process of ideation to solve problems within a community. We will introduce the use of mind maps to ideate. Participants will identify a problem they see in their community and solve it using design thinking concepts.