{"id":3843,"date":"2015-03-23T10:18:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T09:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mzuridesign.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2016-03-15T17:06:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:06:40","slug":"be-yourself-believe-in-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mzuri.co.uk\/news\/general\/be-yourself-believe-in-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Be yourself. Believe in yourself."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What advice would you give to your 15 year-old self, particularly when it comes to careers and personal development? This was the question that sprung to mind when I was\u00a0invited back to <strong><a title=\"The Royal School\" href=\"http:\/\/www.royal-school.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal School<\/a><\/strong> recently to lead three careers workshops for girls aged 15-18. My feeling was: Be yourself. Believe in yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The girls were able to choose their areas of interest and attended three preferred workshops. I was\u00a0really excited (and a little nervous!) to be able to speak with,\u00a0learn from and hopefully inspire the girls so was keen not to limit them to tales of my career alone. With that in mind, I canvassed opinion from my friends beforehand to ask them five\u00a0questions covering\u00a0what they do now, what they thought they would &#8216;be&#8217; when they were at school, where they see themselves in 10 years, what impact having a family has had on their career (if applicable) and what advice they would give to their 15 &#8211; 18 year old selves.<\/p>\n<p>Their fascinating and varied responses were really inspirational to read and a pleasure to compile in to a booklet\u00a0for the girls to keep, which I wanted to convey my overarching message for the workshops: all young women (and men!) should\u00a0be\u00a0themselves\u00a0and\u00a0believe in themselves too. This was echoed in the booklet&#8217;s design, combined with\u00a0inspiring notable quotes as well as the real\u00a0opinion and advice\u00a0from my peers who have since gone off in very different directions to the ones they thought they would, or that they ought to,\u00a0once upon a time!\u00a0The girls&#8217; feedback was very affirming and the booklet seemed to really strike a chord with them. I hope it will be something they revisit and which will encourage them to keep the faith in those moments of stress about next steps.<\/p>\n<p>It was great to connect with the girls, staff and other speakers at the event,\u00a0including theatre tour manager Janice Brittain,\u00a0artist Poppy Porter, childcare play specialist Zoe Parton, barrister Katy-May Balmer and M&amp;S fashion buyer Roz Duncan.\u00a0Justine Hardy from charity <a title=\"Healing Kashmir\" href=\"http:\/\/healingkashmir.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Healing Kashmir<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0delivered a\u00a0fascinating keynote speech. Her story is inspirational and as well as leading her charity in Kashmir, she also finds time to write and also to teach at MIT and Tufts. I\u00a0thoroughly enjoyed the experience and hope that the students found it to be equally interesting and inspiring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mzuridesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/booklet-for-blog_edit.jpg\" alt=\"Careers Conference Booklet\" width=\"715\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mzuri.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/booklet-for-blog_edit.jpg 715w, https:\/\/www.mzuri.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/booklet-for-blog_edit-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Careers and personal development advice to girls at the Royal School aged 15-18 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[436,439,434,438,437,39,392,435],"class_list":["post-3843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-advice","tag-booklet","tag-career","tag-careers","tag-careers-fair","tag-design","tag-education","tag-workshop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Be yourself. 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