Design your 2026: A Bold Year-End Career and Life Reflection

Through guided reflection and Odyssey Planning, participants experienced how design thinking can be applied to life and career decisions — helping them move forward with intention, curiosity, and confidence into 2026 and beyond.

Participants left Design Your 2026: A Bold Year-End Career and Life Reflection with greater clarity, calm, and courage as they looked ahead. Key takeaways included:

1. Greater self-awareness around personal values, strengths, fears, and life seasons — recognising that life is not linear and can be viewed as evolving chapters rather than fixed timelines
2. Reframing fear and risk by learning to name fears clearly, understand what is truly at stake, and make space for them without letting fear dictate decisions
3. Grounded optimism about the present, with many realising that life “as it is” may already be meaningful, even as they imagine future possibilities
4. Perspective across time, using reflections from their younger and older selves to gain insight into what matters most in the long run
5. Practical next steps, identifying small, intentional actions they can take toward desired futures rather than waiting for perfect clarity