is the chief editor of Philonomist. After studying at France's ESSEC business school and graduating in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), she joined Philo Éditions (the editor of Philosophie Magazine) in 2010. A year later she oversaw the launch of the German version of the publication, Philosophie Magazin, for which she served as the editorial supervisor. Anne-Sophie is now in charge of Philonomist, the online media specially created by Philosophie Magazine for the world of business and economics.
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Aim of the workshop: to explore the roots and contradictions of your own choices so as to better understand your needs, values, and deeper desires; to interrogate your past experiences and draw lessons from them, to help identify the framework most conducive to engagement and fulfillment at work.
➤ Approx. duration: 90 to 120 minutes.
Exercice 1: your ambition
(30 minutes)
- Have you ever chosen a path (in your education, work experience, etc.) because you thought it was the most prestigious? Were such choices motivated by the prospect of being able to mobilise your qualifications and experience to fulfil your dream, if you have one?
- Have you ever felt that you had a vocation, or simply been in situations in which you felt naturally in the right place? Did your studies allow you to explore this side of your personality, or did they contribute to you having to repress it, in order to acquire skills you held to be better adapted to the professional world?
- Ask yourself what you would do, here and now, if your qualifications suddenly lost all value on the job market. Would you want to change paths? Why? What have you learned about the things that make you happy at work, which you didn’t know about until you started acquiring real professional experience?
- Make a list of two or three people you admire, famous or not. Describe their career path, and try to imagine some of the obstacles and difficult decisions they might have faced along the way. What lessons can you draw from their story?
Exercice 2: your needs
(20 minutes)
- Describe your typical working day: how do you divide your time between moments…
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