Empathy Interview Stanford Design Class
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Ekwa is a young and creative individual navigating her life and career transitions after graduation, seeking to align her work with her deepest self and spiritual growth. She experiences uncertainty about her future, particularly regarding her seasonal employment, and desires to help others discover their passions while pursuing her own aspirations in yoga instruction and youth development. Additionally, she engages with her inner mentors, 'Om' and 'Lasonda,' to guide her through her emotional complexities and career choices.
Empathy Interview Stanford Design Class
- 1. Young, passionate, creative, risk-taking, deeply spiritual Ekwa needs a way to make both a living and a life because she has made a personal commitment (backed up by major transitions in her life) since graduating to discover and be true to her deepest self. Think!!Say!! Do!! Feel!! Insights Life in great flux. Reclaiming lost parts of herself. Wants to help others do this. Wanders between trust and fear for her future. Growing deep spirituality and connection. Immense imaginative powers. Loving her life but also questioning it. Loving what she is doing now. It is an extension of her. Reversal from the job she had before her new degree. But also feeling scared because her employment is seasonal and she has nothing lined up for the fall. Loves her new sense of spirituality but struggles with how to communicate it to others. Confusion with loss of three-year relationship. Uncertainty is scary. Believes in play, creativity, and spirituality Ekwa has two inner mentors she calls “Om” and “Lasonda.” Om is the calm and comfortable part of her (a presence) and Lasonda is the loud advocate for what she wants/ needs. She often talks to and consults both of them and gets answers to her tough questions. Took a temporary job at a recreation teacher during the summer. Alternates between wanting to find a job that speaks deeply to her and finding something with a little security. INNER ARTIST: “In a guided meditation in my graduate studies I met my inner artist. She was me when I was seven-years old and she took me to the house I grew up in. She showed me how she was an artist when playing with mud outside, with yarn in the basement and playing the piano. “ ME: What do you want to be? EKWA: “I want to be a yoga instructor. I want to bring joy and creativity back to education. I want to teach in the undergraduate leadership program. I want to do youth development work in the schools to get a hands-on view of what it feels like to be in the environment. ME: What do all of those have in common? EKWA: “I want to be part of helping others to discover their passions and truths where they can take that and make an impact.” TRANSITION: Quit her job at a prominent national youth leadership organization because feeling stressed and dead sitting behind a desk and working on a computer. TRANSITION: Quit a three-year relationship. TRANSITION: Moved from being a Lutheran to a more global and connected sense of God as energy. James Toole, August, 2013