Success of Students study well-being project
The goal of the initiative is to enhance the success of students by advancing study support, teaching and learning services and focusing support.
Student Guide
Personal Impact
Personal Impact brings to light already existing courses in Aalto University on values and meaningfulness, self-leadership, societal impact, human potential and well-being. Courses boost your skills of self-leadership, leadership and personal development. If you want to consider your goals, learn ways to reach them, broaden your views and participate in interesting discussions, check the list of courses.
Previous psychological research points out that University students are in the age of identity construction, as well as modifying life-long strategies for goal setting. To empower the construction of identity and personal goal setting as well as to pursue transformative learning skills in working life, the students need support from the educational institutions.
Personal Impact brings together credited courses taught at Aalto, for example on self-management, values, meaningfulness and well-being. The courses provide an opportunity to reflect on one’s own values, beliefs, and goals, either in internal dialogue or in conversations with others.
Depending on the programme, students may complete the courses offered in the Personal Impact either as part of their compulsory or elective studies. Courses make it possible to meet other students from all different fields of the university. Some courses are also available to teachers as part of the university pedagogical training. These courses can be found in a separate news item below.
Personal Impact courses 2023-2024
Please note that courses taught in English have been named in English. Course offering may evolve during the adacemic year and be subject to change.
This site is currently updated for the academic year 2023-24.
Period I-II. Good Life Engine is a hands-on self-leadership course that creates a framework for personal growth by providing a toolkit for connecting with inner self and community.
Period III - IV
This course aims to summarize and reflect on the lesson learned from leadership and collaboration experiences gained through the voluntary position of responsibility in student union, guild, or some other association or organization the student has been holding during the previous year. The course materials concern influencing in community, decision making and team dynamics.
The course content consists of topics concerning self management, leadership, interaction and relationality, reflexivity, and influentiality. Both theoretical and practical aspects of phenomena under scrutiny will be taken into account. The lenses to consider and review the phenomena will be based on the particpants' practical experiences as well as their ongoing leadership tasks.
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The course provides an overview of gender and diversity in organizations and labour market in general. The course adopts a doing gender (and diversity) approach in understanding how inclusion and exclusion in organizations take place. We reflect how our thinking as well organizational practices carry cultural assumptions concerning gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality, and how these assumptions shift in time and space.
Aalto university has since 2021 alusta been member in national Gender studies network, Hilma. Hilma arranges internet courses in Gender and Women’s Studies and provides information on events related to Gender and Women’s Studies. It also organizes pedagogical courses for teachers.
Issues related to gender, race, intersectionality and equality are at the heart of the course offerings and play a major role in creating an inclusive work culture at university and elsewhere.
What Thinking Tools Is About?
Thinking is at the root of all human action. Yet we spend surprisingly little time thinking about our thinking or working out ways to improve our thinking. In addition to the long tradition in philosophy, that has always been at the forefront of improving thinking, also a more pragmatic approach to develop thinking has taken root in the recent decades.
Understanding the human mind, its processes and functions, has developed in leaps through the last five or so decades. We now understand that humans have not only one mind, but two, and that while we have some influence on our conscious thought, there is a whole wonderland of non-conscious thought that we can only influence if we learn the proper tools to do so. Understanding how your non-conscious mind works helps you alleviate work-related stress, generate creative ideas, eliminate writer's block and communicate more clearly. Your non-conscious mind can also inform you of how to find a clear direction to head towards in your life – which can sometimes be a surprising one, once you're freed of the constraints of your presuppositions.
Kestävyyden lisäksi verkkokurssilla tarkastellaan esimerkiksi arkkitehtuurin arvokysymyksiä ja osallistuja pääsee muun muassa testaamaan, kuinka hänen omat kauneuskäsityksensä sijoittuvat suhteessa muiden kurssille osallistuneiden käsitysten kanssa. Myös rakennussuojelun käytännöt ja yhteiskunnalliset ulottuvuudet tulevat tutuiksi.
Kurssi sopii kaikille aiheesta kiinnostuneille. Sen voi suorittaa itsenäisesti omassa tahdissaan tai opettajan johdolla esimerkiksi lukiossa. Kurssi on myös osa Aalto-yliopiston arkkitehtuurin historian ja restauroinnin opintoja.
Miten elää hyvä elämä? Kurssin tavoitteena on vahvistaa osallistujan valmiuksia ymmärtää hyvän elämän peruskysymyksiä ja tehdä perusteltuja valintoja elämässään. Kurssi antaa työkaluja pohtia mitä omassa elämässään kannattaa tavoitella, auttaa tunnistamaan keskeisiä hyvän elämän esteitä sekä haasteita ja kertoo mitkä elämänvalinnat tuottavat tutkitusti hyvinvointia, onnellisuutta ja merkityksellisyyttä. Pyrkimyksenä on syventää ymmärrystä itsestä, ihmisyydestä ja elämästä sekä vahvistaa valmiuksia elää omaehtoista ja itse hyväksi koettua elämää.
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Personal Impact Core Team
For further information, please contact
Merita Petäjä
Project Manager
Previous years' course offering
Good Life Engine 5 ects
Yhteisössä Vaikuttaminen 3 ects
Vaikuttavaksi johtajaksi kasvaminen 3 ects
Kohti parempaa opiskelua 3 ects
Leading as Practice 5 ects
Thinking Tools 3 ects
Ratkaisuja ilmastokriisiin arkkitehtuurin historiasta 2 ects
Elämisen taito 3 ects
Filosofia ja systeemiajattelu 3 ects
Organisaatiokäyttäytyminen, 6 ects
Good Life Engine, 5 ects
Yhteisössä vaikuttaminen, 3 ects
Vaikuttavaksi johtajaksi kasvaminen, 3 ects
Itsentä tunteminen ja johtaminen, 3 ects
Kohti parempaa opiskelua, 3 ects
Leading as Practice, 5 ects
Gender and Diversity at Work, 6 ects
Filosofia ja systeemiajattelu 3 ects
Thinking tools 3 ects
Filosofia ja systeemiajattelu, 3 ECTS
Good Life Engine, 5 ECTS
Human Potential, 5 ECTS
Itsensä tunteminen ja johtaminen, 3 ECTS
Organisaatiokäyttäytyminen, 6 op
Personal Development Project Plan, 1 ECTS
Työelämän mentorointiosaaminen, 2 ECTS
Vaikuttavaksi johtajaksi kasvaminen
Yhteisössä vaikuttaminen, 3 ECTS
Filosofia ja systeemiajattelu, 3 ECTS
Good Life Engine, 5 ECTS
Human Potential, 5 ECTS
Itsensä tunteminen ja johtaminen, 3 ECTS
Organisaatiokäyttäytyminen, 6 op
Personal Development Project Plan, 1 ECTS
Työelämän mentorointiosaaminen, 2 ECTS
Vaikuttavaksi johtajaksi kasvaminen
Yhteisössä vaikuttaminen, 3 ECTS
Designing life: Finding motivation, direction and meaning to life and work, 6 ECTS
Filosofia ja systeemiajattelu, 3 ECTS
Human Potential, 5 ECTS
Itsensä tunteminen ja johtaminen, 3 ECTS
Johtamisen perusteet, 6 ECTS
Leading as practice, 5 ECTS
Magnificent Life, 2 ECTS
Personal Development Project Plan, 1 ECTS
Vaikuttavaksi johtajaksi kasvaminen
Yhteisössä vaikuttaminen, 3 ECTS
Student Services psychologist group
The Student Services psychologist group comprises Aalto’s study psychologists and the career counselling psychologist.
Personal Impact for University Educators
An individual who is able to regulate stress, recognize their own values and ways of thinking, and take these into action, can support educational wellbeing, ie. their own and that of the students. Personal Impact for University educators aims to support this.
Aalto University launches new MOOC "Art of Living" by Frank Martela
This new massive open online course on how to live a good life is lectured by Ph.D., university lecturer Frank Martela. The course is produced by the Oasis of Radical Wellbeing project and it is part of Aalto’s lifewide learning portfolio. The course was launched on May 30th, 2023