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This course is exploring a key question of effective peership:

How do we make sense of ourselves?

Whether you are seeking community, taking on unconventional roles, changing careers mid-stream, finding a new role or determining how to move up in the role you currently have – you need a clear, strong sense of self. 

Sense of Self: Your perception of the pieces that define you. 

Along with cultivating a clear sense of self, you also need to be able to confidently make choices about what paths to pursue given your own values and mission - this is your personal information architecture.

Developing a personal information architecture is hard, but critical sensemaking work. Work that many people de-prioritize in favor of messes they get paid to solve. Yet this critical mess of not having a clear or strong enough sense of self can get in the way of so many of our goals, both personally and professionally. 

Meet Your Guides

Abby Covert and Alfi Oloo smiling

Abby Covert is an information architect with 20 years experience making sense of messes and teaching others how to do the same. She has written two books, How to Make Sense of Any Mess, a beginner’s guide to information architecture and Stuck? Diagrams Help. a field guide for the trek from diagram novice to diagram nerd.

Alfi Oloo is a self-taught product designer with a deep specialization in design systems. As a co-host of the "Edit Undo Podcast" and a trailblazing advocate for mentorship. Alfi introduced his innovative approach to mentorship—melding psychology and performance coaching—on the TEDx Pretoria stage in 2022, marking the start of a new chapter in his Professional Journey.

"This course was inspired by us forming a peership during a time of radical change for each of us."

 


Abby and Alfi met in 2022 while preparing for Makesensemess 22. They formed a self-proclaimed peership in early 2023 and have spent this year getting to know themselves, in an effort to get to know one another.


This course is centered on the thesis of their peership: helping you get to know yourself to get more value from peership, mentorship and self-directed education.

"I went in with a healthy dose of skepticism around some of the early reflections, but by the end I was really impressed by how everything really did build and come together into a meaningful whole. I will definitely be taking learnings from this course into my personal and professional life!"

- Student in Cohort 1

"MSoYS is like a guided and supported journey through the messiness you've been avoiding, alongside peers who are exploring their own messes that -- surprisingly (but not surprisingly) -- look similar to your mess."

- Student in Cohort 1

"This course was not just beneficial for my life and goals, but just enjoyable."

- Student in Cohort 1

"Making Sense of Yourself provides an incredibly valuable toolkit for personal reflection and development, that you explore within a supportive community of remarkable and courageous people who are on that challenging journey alongside you."

- Student in Cohort 1

"The material was well-thought out and each section built on top of the previous one seamlessly. Abby and Alfi’s facilitation was generous and mindful. They shined the spotlight on each of us in a comforting way and offered space for meaningful one-on-one conversations I never thought I’d have."

- Student in Cohort 1

The Sneak Preview is almost here ...

Join Abby Covert and Alfi Oloo for a preview of their newly restructured peer learning program focused on personal growth and self-discovery. Through guided exercises and meaningful peer connections, this program is designed to help you gain clarity on your aspirations, strengths, and relationships while developing practical tools for decision-making. During this special preview event, we will be focusing on talking about the program and answering questions from those considering joining when we open for registration. We have also left plenty of room to mingle with potential peers. This event is open to all with no pressure to join the program, we promise.

RSVP below!

WHO IS THIS COURSE DESIGNED FOR?

We only recommend this course if you have the time and space in your life at this time to do some deep exploration into yourself. We are looking for a small group of thoughtful, self-aware people who are willing to share and grow alongside a cohort of folks with a similar intention. 

You will get the most from this course if you are …

  • Seeking direction outside your professional goals
  • Taking on an unconventional role
  • Pivoting your directional focus
  • Changing your career mid-stream and looking to connect prior experience with future goals
  • Specializing or focusing in on parts of your current role
  • At a crossroads on a decision about your direction 
OBJECTIVES

Abby and Alfi designed this course to help you:

  1. Gain a clearer perspective on your experience, strengths and community
  2. Establish a mission and set of values to drive your future decision-making
  3. Learn how to talk about yourself with strangers
  4. Understand what it means to let others talk about themselves
  5. Identify a self-directed learning plan 
  6. Play with the idea of structured peership

RSVP to the Sneak Preview

Join Abby Covert and Alfi Oloo for a preview of their newly restructured peer learning program focused on personal growth and self-discovery.

 

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