Making Sense of Yourself
What is this course about?
Sometimes the hardest system to understand is yourself.
Most people move through life reacting to opportunities, pressures, and expectations without ever stepping back to ask a simple question: What actually makes sense for me?
This course creates the space to do that work.
Making Sense of Yourself is a self-guided exploration of identity, experience, values, and direction. Using the tools and mindset of sensemaking, participants examine the patterns in their lives so they can make more intentional choices about how they live and work.
Rather than offering prescriptions or personality labels, the course focuses on helping you observe, reflect, and interpret your own story. Through structured exercises and suggested conversations with peers, you will map where you’ve been, understand what shaped you, and identify the paths that feel most aligned with who you are becoming.
If you’ve ever felt at a crossroads (professionally or personally) this course was built for you.
What is the learning objective of this course?
By the end of this course, you will have a clearer understanding of who you are, what matters to you, and what direction you want to move in next.
This includes being able to:
- Recognize patterns in your life experiences that shaped your identity and decision-making
- Articulate your values and the tensions that arise when they are not honored
- Identify strengths, motivations, and constraints that influence how you show up in the world
- Map the relationships, environments, and conditions where you thrive
- Explore multiple possible paths forward rather than feeling trapped in a single narrative
- Develop a personal framework for making future life and career decisions
How is this course taught?
This is a self-guided course combining structured reflection with recommendations for peer conversation.
Here’s what’s included:
- Six themed modules exploring different dimensions of personal sensemaking
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Guided reflection exercises designed to help you map your experiences and perspectives
- Peer-matching opportunities throughout the program so you can share insights and learn from others
- Six months of structured prompts to help translate reflection into meaningful action delivered via email
The course blends introspection and community learning, recognizing that we often understand ourselves more clearly when we hear how others interpret their own stories.
Who was this course designed for?
This course was built for people who feel like they are standing at a crossroads and want to make their next move with greater clarity.
You might be a good fit if:
- You are questioning your direction in life or work
- You feel pulled between multiple paths and don’t know how to choose
- You want to understand the deeper motivations behind your decisions
- You are navigating a major transition or period of change
- You want to reconnect with what feels meaningful and authentic to you
- You enjoy reflective conversations with thoughtful peers
Participants often come from fields like design, research, writing, technology, education, consulting, or leadership roles, but the course is open to anyone interested in understanding themselves more deeply.
Course Outline
Growth Path 1: Strengths & Passions
This growth path helps you spot what you're good at and what you love doing by looking at your past and present skills and interests.
Growth Path 2: Your Role & Your World
This tool helps you map out who you help, who helps you, and how you can make a bigger difference in your community.
Growth Path 3: Understand Your Past
Our past holds clues to your future. This map of your life's big moments and changes shows how your past has shaped who you are and what you want.
Growth Path 4: Network Health Check
Tired of surface-level networking? This tool maps out your close friends, wider circle, and casual contacts to help you build better relationships and get the support you need.
Growth Path 5: Get Outside Perspective
Getting honest feedback is hard. This tool helps you learn about yourself by connecting with others through planned talks that reveal hidden strengths and blind spots.
Growth Path 6: Decision Making Guide
Dreams without action are just wishes. This tool helps you match your life goals with your everyday choices by looking at what drives you and keeps you balanced.
Who is guiding this course?
“Most of us are taught how to analyze systems, organizations, and problems — but not how to make sense of ourselves. This course gives you tools to look at your own life with the same curiosity and care.” — Abby Covert
A community organizer, information architect and sensemakers with twenty years experience helping others make the unclear, clear.
Alfi Oloo
From advertising to fintech, smart technology to educational innovation, Alfi Oloo has charted his own course as a product designer. His self-taught journey shapes how he guides others—weaving together psychological insight, Socratic dialogue, and hands-on practice with the hope of transforming schooling into education.
Regular Price - $299
This is our recommended price for anyone that is paying for this themselves, and in the position to make that investment. You paying regular price allows us to offer a hardship price.
Buy NowHardship Price - $99
We want this work to get into the hands of as many people as it can. To make that possible, we are offering this hardship price for those experiencing joblessness or using currency that is undervalued in the US
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