Staff Mentoring events calendar
Events for staff related to the Staff Mentoring Programme.
Learning to Learn at Work: Workshop with Marcelo Staricof (author of The Joy of Not Knowing)
Thursday 21 May 10:00 until 12:00
University of Sussex Campus : Freeman Centre, F22
Speaker: Organisational Development
Part of the series: Learning at Work Week
This practical session will give us an opportunity to explore the research-based set of dispositions that are associated with effective lifelong learning and how these can be incorporated as part of our professional toolkit. We will use a really interesting model to look at how transformational it can be if we learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, so as to remove the anxiety the we tend to feel when we are in a position of not knowing, of uncertainty and when facing new challenges. We will discuss how in our roles and in our contexts it may possible to ensure that we focus on learning how to learn before we engage in learning what we learn.
Register on this workshop through LearnUpon. Please log in to LearnUpon first for this link to take you directly to the registration page.
Organisational Development will email further details the day before the event.
Please let us know as soon as possible if you have any accessibility requirements regarding this staff development activity (e.g., hearing/visual impairment) so that we can do our very best to accommodate your needs.
All managers are encouraged to enable staff to attend University events in work time, where business needs allow, as learning and development to further all staff contributions in supporting to achieve our goals. Please support to share this event with your teams and networks. We require a minimum number of attendees on our workshops to make them viable. If we are ever unable to run a workshop due to low numbers, you will be contacted 48 hours before the workshop to inform you.
By: Organisational Development
Last updated: Wednesday, 13 May 2026