Weekend University Budapest (Vol. 3)

Welcome to WHISPER's Social Learning event! 

If you have a passion for self-improvement through constant learning and self-education, you are definitely one of us!

✅ INTRODUCTION:

Schools are good at teaching us the hard skills and knowledge that help us to find a good job, but how about the soft skills and emotional intelligence that help us to find a happy life? 

With this event, we will learn together what's essential for our lives but what schools don't teach us, such as confidence, leadership, charisma, empathy, negotiation, authenticity, relationships, psychology, emotional management, and many other critical soft knowledge and skills for life. 

✅  HOW DOES IT WORK?

☑️  First, in the event, we will learn together from public courses / lectures / speeches from the world's top universities such as Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and many other institutions, taught by the world's top professors and thought leaders. 

Each event will focus on one topic / field. 

☑️  Afterward, we will provide you with workshops, interactive group exercises, and discussions to work on with your teammates to help you turn knowledge into skills. 

You will see how much fun weekend learning could be when you are surrounded by like-minded people in a casual environment with a few drinks. 

✅  TOPIC OF THE WEEK: Wisdom of Self-criticism.

Lecturer: Adam M. Grant

We will learn from his TED Talk and open lectures online, followed by workshops and group exercises to apply the new knowledge in real life.

School: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. 

Intro: Do you believe in the ever-lasting motivational quote called "Never Give Up"? Did you ever waste your time or money in a wrong relationship, job, project, business, or anything that you knew had already been on the wrong path but you still didn't quit early enough, just because people told you to "never give up"?

Why is it so hard for us humans to criticize ourselves and start thinking and acting differently? 

Humans are so slow to react to looming crises, like a forewarned pandemic or a warming planet. It's because we're reluctant to rethink, says organizational psychologist Adam Grant. From a near-disastrous hike on Panama's highest mountain to courageously joining his high school's diving team, Grant borrows examples from his own life to illustrate how tunnel vision around our goals, habits and identities can find us stuck on a narrow path. Drawing on his research, he shares counterintuitive insights on how to broaden your focus and remain open to opportunities for rethinking. (If you think you know something about frogs, watch until the end and get ready to think again.)

This weekend we will learn from Adam M. Grant, one of the most well-known organizational psychologists and a professor at Wharton School in Pennsylvania University. 

With this workshop, we will challenge your old beliefs and build a more efficient pattern of thinking.

✅ TICKETS:

☑️ 3000 HUF / person

☑️ Paid in CASH only at the event. ❗️Please take the exact amount because we won't have small bills to return to you.❗️

☑️ The ticket covers ❤️ unlimited tea and water. ❤️ The event venue also provides quality coffee at a fair price.

☑️ REGISTRATION is required.

✅ LOCATION:

Signature @ Szervita Square Building

Budapest, Szervita tér 8, 1052

This is WHISPER's brand-new event space.

Please enter through the round revolving doors. If you come late and the doors are closed, press either of the 2 buttons under the security cameras next to the glass door to access the building. We are on the -1 floor accessible from the center of the hall.

If you can't find us, please ask the security guard or follow the WHISPER banners.

✅ SECURITY MEASURES:

If you already have COVID symptoms such as sore throat, coughing, headache, bad stomach, loss of taste and smell etc. please stay at home. We will be happy to have you back once you recover.

Let's take care of each other in this special period.

✅ ABOUT THE ORGANIZER:

WHISPER is a Budapest-based community dedicated to creating positive changes through live events in areas of psychology, personal development, relationship & dating, career development, and fitness & health.

With already 200+ live events for 2000+ members, we have been on a mission of transforming people's lives since 2016.

☑️  For more exclusive Whisper Membership Benefits, sign up here: https://www.whisperevent.eu/

✅  IMPORTANT INFO:

We may take photos / videos in the event for future marketing purposes. By coming to the event, you agree by default to allow our usage of the graphic material containing your images.

See you soon!