Life design foundation
Your Life, Your Design.
Our Mission.
Our mission at the Life Design Foundation is to empower individuals and communities to enhance their quality of life through design, education, and support.
We strive to create a world where everyone has the tools and opportunities to lead healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives.
Through our dedicated efforts, we aim to inspire positive change, promote well-being, and foster environments where people can thrive.
Making an impact with the “Designing Your Life” framework engineered at Stanford University.
At the Life Design Foundation, we bring the transformative DYL framework, engineered at Stanford, to India’s higher education landscape. Our mission is to equip students to design and build their futures. We aim to encourage educators and institutions to embrace holistic growth and future-thinking in Higher education.
The foundation strives to empower students at schools and universities, educators, educational institutions, and social impact organisations with the tools rooted in research to apply, teach, research, and explore Life Design principles at scale. Through initiatives and partnerships, the Foundation will engage various stakeholders so they might embark on the transformative journey to greater well-being—for themselves or their constituents.
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Going forward, the Foundation will sponsor Life Design Educators, establish fellowships for researching well-being theory, support the creation of Life Design Labs at Universities and High Schools, work with Social impact organisations, and engage with Policymakers and NGOs to disseminate effective curricula, coaching and tools.
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Introducing
Sponsored
Stanford-Trained
Life Design Educators
The Life Design Foundation has facilitated and funded highly accomplished individuals to attend the Stanford Life Design Studio.who are now “Life Design Educators”.
By funding universities and colleges the Foundation’s aim is to increase the capacity at higher-ed Institutions and thus, scale the impact of the mission.
First Cohort
Stanford-Trained Life Design Educators
Nandana Chakraborty
IIAD
S Guruprasad
NID
Shristi Bajaj
Alliance University
Second Cohort
Stanford-Trained Life Design Educators
Giridhar Ramachandran
XLRI
Arvind Lodaya
NID
Dr. Shabani Bhatia
Jindal Global Business School, OP Jindal Global University
Dr. Lata Dhir
S .P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
Risha Roy
Anant National University
Amita Sahgal
Symbiosis Institute of Design
Sasi Menon
Apeejay Stya University
Balbir Singh
World University of Design
Call for Applications
We invite University leaders, Educators, and Students across India to join us in this transformative journey. By integrating the Life Design framework into our educational systems, we can cultivate a generation of thinkers, innovators, and leaders equipped to thrive in a dynamic world.
If you would like to be sponsored to get trained and become a Life Design Educator, you may apply by filling out this form.
If you would like to be sponsored to get trained and become a Life Design Educator, you may apply by filling out this form.
Join the mission.
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