MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2017 Activities by Sponsor - SpousesandPartners@mit

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"Eye Eye" Workshop and Demo

Mauricio Cordero

Jan/12 Thu 06:00PM-08:00PM 8-119

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Fee: $10.00 for materials

Learn how to draw the eye and why you couldn’t do it before.

The eyes represent unique challenges to both the beginning and intermediate artist. By approaching drawing and observation through a different lens, we will overcome many of these obstacles. This course focuses on underlying structure and the process of observation, rather than relying on anatomical instruction. Learn how to translate the eye that you see onto paper using pencil and graphite.


This workshop will meet once and consists of:
Drawing demonstration with a step-by-step explanationDrawing tools and material demonstrationDrawing the hand from observationIndividual feedback from the instructor Activity leader & contact person: Mauricio Cordero

Date(s) and Time(s): Thursday January 12, from 6-8pm
Limited Enrollment: 15 participants $10 materials fee, online payment reserves a spot - http://mauriciocordero.com/instruction/#pay

Sponsor(s): SpousesandPartners@mit
Contact: Mauricio Cordero, mcordero@mit.edu


Career negotiation 1: How to turn a connector into a champion

Tad Mayer

Jan/11 Wed 06:00PM-07:30PM 5-233

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)

Are you hesitant to ask for informational interviews because you feel like you’re asking for a favor without offering anything in return? What if you understood what was important to the connector and could offer them something of value? Instead of a one-off meeting, you have the foundation for a partnership. Would that change your motivation to ask for the meeting? Let’s say you’re in a job interview with the hiring manager and you ask, “Beyond the job description for this role, what else is important to you for the team to accomplish?” What if you then demonstrated how you could contribute to their additional aspirations?

Join us for an interactive talk on negotiation and career development. We will focus on understanding what is important to the other person—be it an informational or job interview—and what to do about it. We will discuss how to figure out what interests connectors and decision makers have, how to bring them into the discussion, and how to generate options to fulfill them. We will also look at your own interests and how to get them met. Instead of pleading for an informational interview or a job, this workshop will change the frame to how you and connectors can help each other, and how you can focus on the fit with decision makers for potential jobs.

 3 additiona related, in-depth workshops on negotiation during IAP. Please see listing, “Career negotiation 2: Become an expert negotiator to jump-start your job search and career advancement.”

Sponsor(s): SpousesandPartners@mit
Contact: Carly Inkpen, carly.inkpen@gmail.com


Career negotiation 2: Become an expert negotiator to jump-start your job search and career advancement

Tad Mayer, Justin Wright, Carly Inkpen, Israela Adah Brill-Cass

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Whether you want to advance in an organization, pivot your path, or land that dream engagement as a freelancer, building your career is the product of interactions with people—would be employers, colleagues, clients, and advisors (not firms or departments)—the intersection of career and negotiation. This course will explore that intersection and introduce how to approach three specific negotiations that all take place in each stage of constructing your career. The workshop will go on to provide a guide to how the three negotiations advance you through each phase of your career from finding focus to building fulfillment.

This set of  workshops will provide a framework, exercises, and hands-on negotiation practice to:

Advance sign-up required. Sign up by 1/13.

Attendance: Participants welcome to attend individual sessions or all sessions.

Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/7eflqM8a7RtaxNzw2

Sponsor(s): SpousesandPartners@mit
Contact: Carly Inkpen, carly.inkpen@gmail.com


Negotiating with yourself: Align who you

Jan/18 Wed 06:00PM-08:30PM 5-233

Justin Wright, Tad Mayer, Carly Inkpen, Israela Adah Brill-Cass


Negotiating with connectors: Build an am

Jan/23 Mon 06:00PM-08:30PM 5-233

Justin Wright, Tad Mayer, Carly Inkpen, Israela Adah Brill-Cass


Negotiating with decision makers: The ne

Jan/30 Mon 06:00PM-08:30PM 5-233

Justin Wright, Tad Mayer, Carly Inkpen, Israela Adah Brill-Cass


The Japanese Tea Ceremony

Kyoko Wada

Jan/28 Sat 02:00PM-03:00PM W20 306

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)

Join us for a Japanese tea ceremony performed by Mrs. Kyoko Wada, who has been studying the Japanese Tea Ceremony for more than 30 years. She will share "the happiness of the tea ceremony" with you and invite you to take this opportunity to leave your worries and problems at the door. Be transported to Japan by the calligraphy, ceramics, flowers, lacquer, and incense. Experience the four elements of the "way of tea:" harmony, respect, purity, and tranquility. Imagine how they can bring harmony into our daily interactions. Take the first step of what can become a lifetime of study and meditation. No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below) Signup by: 28-Jan-2017 Contact: Kyoko Wada, iap.chado@gmail.com

Sponsor(s): SpousesandPartners@mit
Contact: Kyoko Wada, 20 Chimneys - W20-306, iap.chado@gmail.com