The tbd* Purpose Fellowship is an inspiring, interactive and flexible program intended to help you connect with your purpose, define your professional goals and build a career that you truly love.

Are you currently feeling lost or unfulfilled in your career? Do you feel ready to take the step to a more impact-focused career but not sure how? Are you a recent graduate just starting out or an experienced professional thinking of finally starting your own business? Do you want to build your network with like-minded people from all over the world and get a personal support group to overcome your own personal challenges? Then the tbd* Purpose Fellowship - Career Coaching & Community is for you!

What It Includes:

You'll finally get the tools to answer some of the life's biggest questions.

What is my true passion? What is my mission? What is the impact I am here to build?

✓ You will get a total of 12 hours of expert input from a professional career coach, Astrid Schrader. Input sessions are held every Friday lunchtime (1pm-2:30 pm CET) for 8 weeks.

✓ You will be matched with a personal Mastermind group with whom you meet once a week for 1.5 hours to explore your individual challenges in a safe and supportive peer-coaching environment.

✓ You will be added to our alumni network and join a community of over 300 other purpose seekers and impact professionals!

✓ You can do the flexible program alongside your full-time job or studies and all you need is an internet connection and the willingness to do some real inner work.

✓ If you cannot make a Friday session you can catch up in your own time by watching the videos whenever you want.

✓ Though a unique combination of input and peer-coaching, you can develop a masterplan to help you reconnect with your inspiration and motivation and, ultimately, find a way to start living your passion and purpose.

* While the group input sessions will be held in English, you can be asked to be matched with a German Mastermind group so that all of your peer-coaching is done in German. Astrid Schrader, the career coach, speaks both German and English fluently and therefore can also do private sessions in German.

Are you ready to take the next bold step in your career in order to feel more alive again? Are you ready to create your masterplan to reconnect with some of the inspiration and motivation you’ve lost along the way? Then join us for the Purpose Fellowship!

Course Overview:

All input sessions are held by our partners at The Arc, led by Astrid Schrader, a professional coach with over 10 years of experience.

Astrid Schrader

WEEK 1: Why am I here?

WEEK 2: Ikigai - Connecting to your Purpose

WEEK 3: The Purpose Career Canvas

WEEK 4: The Wheel of Change

WEEK 5: Find your crew

WEEK 6: Build your story

WEEK 7: Dare greatly

WEEK 8: The steps beyond

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WEEK 1: WHY AM I HERE?

►Get matched with your Mastermind and start right away into a process of honest self-enquiry: How am I generating the very conditions I am trying to avoid?

►We will take an inventory of how fulfilled we are in different areas of our (work) life, and which areas - if improved just a little bit - would have the biggest overall positive effect on all other areas in our lives

WEEK 2: IKIGAI - CONNECTING TO YOUR PURPOSE

► Based on our findings in Week 1 and using a powerful methodology to connect to your intuition, we shall indulge in a vision-building process where we will sense into the following questions: What is my true passion? What is my mission? What is the impact I am here to build?

WEEK 3: THE PURPOSE CAREER CANVAS

► Using our Purpose Canvas you will follow the key questions that you need to make what you have learned so far fit into a career. Yes, we'll talk about money as well as passion, people and roles.

WEEK 4: THE WHEEL OF CHANGE

► Knowing where you are heading, what you need to let go of, what you need to accept and what you need to change is what this session is about. Cut down your to-do list and focus on what really matters.

WEEK 5: FIND YOUR CREW

► This week we will focus on how to build yourself an ecosystem that challenges and supports you on your journey to more impactful work

WEEK 6: BUILD YOUR STORY

►The essence of a great first impression whether that’s in a CV, a networking event or an elevator is a credible and authentic story. Let’s develop yours. One that comes truly from the heart and the telling of which fills you up with pride!

WEEK 7: DARE GREATLY

► Let’s face it! Many of us struggle to dare great things, because we don’t feel confident enough. This is memorized suffering. If our thinking shapes our reality: What would you choose to think differently?

WEEK 8: THE STEPS BEYOND

► Just because the Purpose Fellowship is finished, doesn’t mean it’s ending! In this session we design a compelling path for you to go on after the Fellowship.

►And… celebrate all our successes!

All input sessions are held by our partners at The Arc, led by Astrid Schrader, a professional coach with over 10 years of experience.

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Who It's For:

The Purpose Fellowship has supported hundreds of purpose-driven professionals to build a career they love.

The Purpose Fellowship is designed for purpose-driven professionals at any stage of their career, who align with our mission to make the world a better place. It is an entirely virtual career coaching program so you can take part from anywhere.

As the Purpose Fellowship is an intensive career coaching program specifically targeted at impact professionals, please only join, if all the following apply to you:

1. You are willing to DO THE WORK. Do not expect to be given a magic recipe for a better life with overnight results (although you should expect quite a few aha moments!)

2. This is NOT a personal coaching but instead a peer-to-peer coaching program. You are ready to receive feedback, to listen and are ready to give your time and energy to others, too. #no_arrogance

3. Purpose Fellows want to build a better life for themselves and a more sustainable and just global society.

Ready to transform your career and reconnect to your purpose?

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Scholarships and Subsidies

We wholeheartedly welcome fellows who have experienced marginalisation and/or are subject to significant financial barriers to taking part. We have a small number of scholarships available. Please understand that simply being unemployed does not qualify you for a scholarship. If you would like to apply for a scholarship please send us an email by one week before the deadline (please keep it simple) containing the following information:

1. Information about your financial situation
2. Evidence of your previous commitment to a career with purpose
3. Your goal(s) within the Purpose Fellowship
4. Any other relevant biographical information that you feel comfortable sharing

Only emails containing this information will be considered. Please note we will respond to scholarship requests after the application deadline has closed. Please don't expect a response until then.

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Our alumni gave the Purpose Fellowship 4.5 out of 5 stars!

Here's what they said:
"There is real value in working with like-minded strangers to help get objective feedback on your future, and working together toward a common goal means that you build a ready-made career network that will support you in your transition to a more interesting career.

"It enabled me to get back on track, regain my positivity, meet awesome, inspiring & purpose-driven people and to realise that I am not alone with my struggles."

"I feel grateful for having the chance to be part of this community! Seeing new faces, discussing so openly with other people and sharing our concerns and fears; but also our ambitions and power, already gave me lots of positive energy. It was very restorative."

"The fellowship has been exactly what I needed, it has made an incredible difference for me."