Join us for a weekend of immersive activities and conversation in community with other women, focused on designing lives where we thrive.
“Designing Your Life for Women” is a powerful, hands-on workshop experience where you will learn and apply the Life Design© method to your own life.
Taught by Kathy Davies, Managing Director of the Stanford Life Design Lab and Catherine Dalipe, certified DYL Instructor and DYL Coach, this innovative workshop gives you the opportunity to learn and practice ideas and tools contained in the New York Times bestselling book, Designing Your Life, How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life in a life design community.
You will participate in highly interactive activities, reframing dysfunctional beliefs, exploring the social and personal narratives that shape us, and digging into design tools to increase your creativity and confidence. We will focus on balance and energy, use ideation techniques to help get you unstuck, build Odyssey Plans for three potential futures, and define ways to prototype the compelling parts of these futures. Throughout the experience, we will take moments to relfect and integrate what we are learning. Best of all, you will do this in a community with women who have come together with a common purpose and who will support you on this life design journey.
This one and a half day retreat includes:
Workshop sessions from 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM on Saturday and 8:00 AM -1:30 PM on Sunday
Breakfast both days, and lunch and a wine and cheese reception on Saturday
A Designing Your Life for Women Workbook for your exercises and reflections
A one-hour post retreat call with the instructors and fellow participants for follow-up and coaching.
Meet Your Facilitators
Kathy Davies
CEO, Designing Your Life Consulting
Master Instructor and Principal Consultant
Kathy Davies is Senior Strategic Facilitator at Stanford University, where she leads strategic planning, alignment, and team development initiatives for faculty, staff, and administration. Previously, she served for over a decade as Managing Director of Stanford’s Life Design Lab, teaching design thinking and life design while bringing life design training to educators worldwide.
Kathy is also co-founder of Designing Your Life Consulting and a commercial Master Trainer for Designing Your Life globally. With 15 years of industry experience developing electromechanical and software products, she holds five patents and has worked extensively with Silicon Valley companies. Her background in engineering, product management, and leadership brings a unique perspective to her facilitation and teaching.
Kathy believes in the power of design thinking and life design to create meaningful social change, particularly in advancing equity for women.
Catherine Dalipe
DYL Certified Facilitator & Coach
Catherine Dalipe is a certified Designing Your Life coach, facilitator, and founder of Indigo & Magenta Consulting, where she helps individuals navigate career transitions and life pivots with clarity and intention. Drawing from more than 30 years of global leadership experience in international education, she brings a thoughtful, action-oriented approach to helping people reimagine what’s next. Catherine also serves as Partner Engagement & Community Relations Manager for Designing Your Life Consulting, supporting a worldwide network of facilitators and coaches. Outside of work, Catherine finds joy and renewal in her favorite “flow” activities — swimming in the Pacific Ocean, playing pickleball, sketching, cooking with her husband, playing piano, and spending time in nature.
