Therapy for Designers aims to create a space for designers to share their challenges, be heard and learn to build a growth mindset and leadership capabilities as a group.
The key to creating growth is a group of humans that can help each other grow. We'll be curating groups of designers who want to tackle similar challenges to enable a collaborative problem-solving mindset. By sharing experiences in small groups, we hope to enable validation, empathy, and collaborative problem-solving.
Our format involves two parts:
We are currently looking for designers in their early career journey to join the community and help us continuously improve our format.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simoneattanasio
With 17+ years of professional experience across Europe, the USA and Australia, Simone had the fortune to work with various organisations, from startups to scale-ups to big enterprises, enabling him to develop strong design thinking, collaboration and growth mindset capabilities. Working at Canva as a Group Design Lead, he believes that human connection, empathy and shared understanding are at the core of creating inclusive and productive environments for teams and individuals. Simone loves helping and empowering designers to identify their growth potential and hosting incredible dinners with friends and family.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/benazirani/
Benaz is a design manager at OpenTable where she balances her love for design and food by driving initiatives that help restaurants thrive. She’s worked in various organizations across America and Australia and is most alive solving complex problems and nurturing the growth of designers. Having grown a lot in her career, Benaz is all about developing designers into fearless leaders and giving them the confidence and skills to ladder up in their career.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyelizabethling/
With 18 years of design career experience, Ash specialises in Design Operations Management, while consulting in the digital accessibility and inclusion space. With qualifications in Kinesiology and Mental Health First Aid, Ash’s leadership style is rooted in empathy; combining life experience, intuition and compassion to provide a safe and nurturing space for every conversation.