Grad+ Seminar Series - Mastery: Purpose for Resilience

About

Led by human behavior specialist, Dr. Leslie-Ellen Blood.

Are you tired of the boring, repetitive nature of professional development workshops? Do you want to be challenged, add performance and communication skills to your CV, and belong to a community of brilliant, like-minded academics? This semester, Grad+ Mastery will focus on purpose. Is purpose something we find, or something we build? Human behavior research frames purpose as a dynamic person-environment process that emerges through our interaction with the world around us. This perspective not only allows but requires active engagement in the formation and execution of purpose.

We struggle to articulate why we do what we do, think what we think, and want what we want, yet we still expect to feel motivated, take action, and maintain focus. Purpose is now widely recognized as essential to human well-being, with a strong association between perceived meaningfulness and a host of improved psychological benefits. You are the most important project you will ever take on. Invest in your success and join Grad+ Mastery today.

If you have already participated in Grad+ Seminar Series (both Fundamentals and Special Topics), then sign up for Grad+ Mastery to take it to the next level.

Outcomes

Learn how action helps us refine purpose through meaningful experiencesCreate opportunities to explore and strengthen purpose“Read” your behaviors for purpose alignmentCultivate confidence through deliberate practiceInvest time, rather than “spend” it, for a high purpose ROIDiscover ways to incorporate purpose research into your teaching and training

All graduate students welcome!

Register by Sept. 3, 2026. Contact Hailey.Herman@colorado.edu with any questions.