Designing Your Life for individuals
What if you designed your life with intention?
Designing Your Life for individuals
What if you designed your life with intention?
Designing Your Life for individuals
What if you designed your life with intention?
Designing for a life and career that can flourish.
We are living through an age of expanding possibility and deep uncertainty. Longer lives, changing careers, new technologies, shifting identities and social expectations mean that many of the old maps for a “good life” no longer hold. Yet most of us are expected to make consequential choices about work, relationships, purpose and the future with remarkably few tools for navigating them.
Where the science of living meets the practice of design and beyond.
The Centre for Life Design exists to help build those tools. It is an interdisciplinary platform dedicated to advancing the study and practice of life design: bringing together design, behavioural and social sciences, education, philosophy and lived experience to understand how people make choices, navigate transitions and build lives and careers that are meaningful, resilient and adaptable.
The Centre moves beyond advice and prescription. It treats life as something we can engage with experimentally through reflection, reframing, prototyping, action and learning.
Our ambition is not simply to teach a framework, but to help develop a field. Building on the Stanford-born practice of Designing Your Life and our work across universities, schools, organisations and diverse life stages, the Centre will generate evidence, create new methods, convene thinkers and practitioners, and make life-design capability more widely accessible.
At its heart is a simple proposition: a good life is neither a fixed destination nor something we merely discover or inherit. It is something we can continually design, test, learn from and reimagine.
What the centre does
EDUCATION
Courses, programmes, curricula and faculty development across life stages, building life design as a learnable capacity for navigating change and pursuing flourishing.
PRACTICE
A growing library of evidence-informed tools, frameworks and methods that translate ideas into action for individuals, educators, coaches and organisations.
RESEARCH
An emerging research agenda on how people actually decide, transition, experiment, adapt and build coherence over time and on what makes life-design interventions effective.
COMMUNITY
A network of educators, fellows, researchers, practitioners and collaborators who carry the work into institutions and communities, enriched by diverse lived experiences.
LAB & INNOVATION
A place to prototype and test new approaches to enduring and emerging life questions from identity and longevity to AI, uncertainty, work, relationships, serendipity and purpose.
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
Ideas, publications, conversations, case studies and open resources that make serious thinking about the design of life accessible beyond the classroom.
The larger idea
Life design should become a capability for life, not a one-time intervention at moments of crisis or career choice.
The Centre seeks to create the scholarship, practices, educators and community that can make that possible.