This Human Life

Connecting with your passion, desire, and what gives you pleasure in your work is just as important to doing great work as a robust process. Melis explores the role of designing for yourself in providing access to endless inspiration and motivation.

Melis continues reading through pages 171-175 from her book with a whole bunch of stories in between. :-)

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For more information on 1:1 coaching and her deep leadership program head over to www.melissenova.com.

Music by the very talented Mark Wright and Michael Julia. Much gratitude for your gift.

Moving through some deeper content in this episode, we explore duality, good vs evil, and the role of beauty in design. Melis talks us through an exercise where you can make sure you’re considering the shadow side of human behavior in your design process.

Melis continues reading through pages 165-171 from her book with a whole bunch of stories in between. :-)

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Music by the very talented Mark Wright and Michael Julia. Much gratitude for your gift.

Melis unpacks three different forms of empathy and why as human-centered designers it is important for us to recognize and work with each type.

Melis also mentions an animation by Brene Brown re empathy vs sympathy which is linked below. An oldy but a goody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch/KZBTYViDPlQ

Melis continues reading through pages 161-167 from her book with a whole bunch of stories in between. :-)

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For more information on 1:1 coaching and her deep leadership program head over to www.melissenova.com

Music by the very talented Mark Wright and Michael Julia. Much gratitude for your gift.

We kick off 2021 with Chapter 6 which is all about Emotion. Designing for and with emotion. In this episode, Melis explains our relationship with emotion and some neuroscientific explanations as to why we find it so challenging to work with them sometimes.

Melis continues reading through pages 154-160 from her book with a whole bunch of stories in between. :-)

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For courses and more free stuff, including worksheets from the book, head over to www.thishuman.com.

For more information on 1:1 coaching and her deep leadership program head over to www.melissenova.com

Music by the very talented Mark Wright and Michael Julia. Much gratitude for your gift.

Melis wraps up chapter 5 with a great section on self authority, self confidence and resilience. What an appropriate topic to see out 2020.

Melis continues reading through pages 145-151 from her book with a whole bunch of stories in between. :-)

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For more information on 1:1 coaching and her deep leadership program head over to www.melissenova.com

Music by the very talented Mark Wright and Michael Julia. Much gratitude for your gift.

Distracted much? Melis shares four questions you can ask yourself to help you discern whether to say yes or no to design direction. And encourages all who work in complex problem solving to be conscious of where your attention is going to make sure you direct your precious energy in relevant ways.

Melis continues reading through pages 141-145 from her book with a whole bunch of stories in between. :-)

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For more information on 1:1 coaching and her deep leadership program head over to www.melissenova.com

Music by the very talented Mark Wright and Michael Julia. Much gratitude for your gift.

Melis dives deeper into the role intention plays in bringing clarity to your work. The Huddle Thinking framework makes another cameo appearance and she distinguishes the difference between clarity and focus and why that’s important in design and leadership.

Melis continues reading through pages 135-140 from her book with a whole bunch of stories in between. :-)

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For courses and more free stuff, including worksheets from the book, head over to www.thishuman.com.

For more information on 1:1 coaching and her deep leadership program head over to www.melissenova.com

A great resource for focussed work as referenced in this episode: https://www.the1thing.com/about/

Music by the very talented Mark Wright and Michael Julia. Much gratitude for your gift.

Melis talks about the role intention plays in directing design work. She also explores the difference between Purpose and Intention, why it matters and what they enable.

Melis kicks off chapter 5 and continues reading through pages 125-134 from her book with a whole bunch of stories in between. :-)

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For more information on 1:1 coaching and her deep leadership program head over to www.melissenova.com

Music by the very talented Mark Wright and Michael Julia. Much gratitude for your gift.

Meils talks about the importance of enlisting your heart to help you better connect with your work and the people you work with and for. Knowing your own heart, your own values enables you to know who is doing the designing.

Melis finishes off chapter 4 and continues reading through pages 120-123 from her book with a whole bunch of stories in between. :-)

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For courses and more free stuff, including worksheets from the book, head over to www.thishuman.com.

For more information on 1:1 coaching and her deep leadership program head over to www.melissenova.com

Music by the very talented Mark Wright and Michael Julia. Much gratitude for your gift.

Meils shares an intimate opening into a timely episode about being in service of others. Of course, she focusses on how this orientation plays into your role as a human centred leader and designer.

Melis continues reading through pages 114-120 from her book with a whole bunch of stories in between. :-)

Come over and join us at This Human Community hosted on Mighty Networks.

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For courses and more free stuff, including worksheets from the book, head over to www.thishuman.com.

For more information on 1:1 coaching and her deep leadership program head over to www.melissenova.com

Music by the very talented Mark Wright and Michael Julia. Much gratitude for your gift.