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Oxford10 Christmas Carols

We would like to invite all Oxford Alumni to our ‘Oxford10 Christmas Carol Singing Event’ Friday 17th December 2020 at 19:00 – 20:30.

It will be a great way for all alumni to collate and gather together to celebrate the festive period!

Even with this year being quite different to others, we can come together to sing along and collate our festive stories during this Oxfordian gathering! Backing carol tracks were recorded in the Sheldonian Theatre.

Please register for FREE for the event which is to be held over ZOOM.

Event Agenda:

Christmas Introduction
Attendee Greeting
Raise a Glass of Christmas Cheer For Oxford Alumni Cohort
Singing Carols (all carol lyrics and materials will be provided)
Final Christmas Message

We look forward to you attending and joining in this unique Christmas celebration amongst Oxford Alumni from across the world!

Note: Zoom Link to be sent to confirmed attendees prior to the event.

Mindfulness with Sophie McLaren

Covid 19 has taken the energy out of many of us and we are in a moment of uncertainty. We have no idea how things will unfold.

With this in mind, Oxford10 invited Sophie who has been running mindfulness sessions for many years, to not only give us a talk about mindfulness but to also show us how we can use it in our everyday lives.

In today’s session we learned that mindfulness can give us stability when we feel the carpet has been pulled from under our feet. It appears that we are being distracted 47% of our time and this leads to our mind wandering around.

In two short mindfulness practice tasks of 2 and 4 minutes each, we found out that we have a direct experience and a narrative experience with our mind. Sophie told us what to focus on so that we can shift our experience with our mind in order to stop the talking in our head.

We finished the session by writing down ten things that nourish us and also a few things that deplete us and how we can shift these energy depleting things from our list. A wonderful experience that came at the right time when so many of us are experiencing fatigue and are looking for ways to calm our minds.

#StartedinOxford Demo Day

Applications are open for the #StartedinOxford Demo Day – deadline is 23 October 5pm. Apply now

The #StartedinOxford Demo Day is a celebration and showcase of the Oxford-linked entrepreneurship community, and will be held online on Wednesday 18 November 2020. This event will bring together exciting companies and ventures linked to the University of Oxford or Oxford Brookes University (students, staff or alumni) from across the globe, as well as those from across Oxfordshire.

In previous years, we have come together in Oxford, with 20-30 startups and over 300 registered attendees mingling and chatting over the course of an evening. This year we will be virtual – there will be even more hand-picked companies to meet and engage with in a fresher’s fair style virtual setup. The event will be open for almost 24 hours, with sector-specific sessions, panel discussions, and opportunities to hear selected companies pitch live throughout the UK work day. Attendees can find out more about each company, request more information, chat with the company representatives, and vote for their favourites to win prizes, including cash, introductions to networks and VIP’s, and connections to the wider Oxford-linked ecosystem.

The Demo Day has multiple purposes:

· increasing awareness of Oxford-linked companies and ventures (in this case, from across the globe),

· facilitating connections (ie water cooler discussions) between people and organisations in the ecosystem, and

· supporting companies to finding the resources they need now (including cofounders or employees, workspace, advisors or mentors, access to networks or experts, or investment)

As a company you will get:

The opportunity to showcase your company to a large worldwide audience, across the Enterprising Oxford platform and via its connected networks and partners
A chance to win prizes, including cash, access to networks, experts, mentors and collaborators, and support packages
To meet other companies exhibiting, from a range of sectors and stages
Exclusive access to VIP guests, including senior executives, investors, and key connectors in the Oxford-linked entrepreneurship ecosystem

Apply now

Mindfulness with Sophie McLaren – 21 Oct 2020

How has Covid19 affected us? Being mindful and caring for our resilience and wellbeing has never been more important.

In this talk, Sophie Maclaren will introduce us to mindfulness. She will discuss what we understand under the term mindfulness, how it helps our wellbeing and she will give us evidence-based mindfulness practices to do at home and at work.

Get your tickets here!

About the speaker:

Sophie specialises in workplace wellbeing, and mindful leadership. She works with emerging and established leaders as a trainer, consultant, and coach. In this capacity she has created hundreds of custom programmes, partnered with thousands of individuals and groups across the globe, and founded several organisations/ initiatives to develop the next generation of mindfulness trainers and support young leaders in 30+ countries.

As well as her academic studies in intellectual history and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, she trained intensively with Tibetan meditation masters and has been a dedicated mindfulness and yoga practitioner for over 20 years.

Sophie specialises in wellbeing for high-impact individuals in leadership roles, and brings attention and care to each individual as they craft their own mindfulness practice. She teaches special topics on resilience, agility, workplace wellbeing, mindfulness in working life/business, mindfulness for students, and the mindful organisation. Sophie is particularly excited to continue engaging change agents, allowing mindfulness to become a practical tool for enhancing human-centered professional life while increasing impact.

She is a fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School.

You can get tickets and event details here.

Welcome to Oxford: Freshers’ Event

On Thursday 17th September, Oxford10 held a Zoom event for London-based freshers (undergraduate and postgraduate) to help them ease into their exciting journey at Oxford. Nearly 100 freshers attended the event – a definite record for this Oxford10 committee – and they got to meet friendly faces, hear from current students about how the upcoming term was shaping up amidst the pandemic, and put their wits to the test in a three-round quiz.

Current second-years Seren Ford, Rachel Howe and Orly Welch shared their experiences at Oxford to date – including a Trinity term in lockdown – and their thoughts on how freshers could make the best of their time at Oxford, even amidst a global pandemic. The participants were then grouped by colleges – with some colleges bravely represented by just one person – and asked a range of Oxford-themed questions. We’d invite you to try answering some of them as well:

Which US president studied at University College?

How many libraries are there in Oxford?

When was the Oxford Union founded?

Eventually, the team of Corpus Christi and Christ Church emerged victorious, pulling ahead of the rest of the competition with full points across all three rounds. Seems like that lot are very prepared to do Open House next year, where they will undoubtedly charm wide-eyed sixth-formers with their formidable knowledge of Oxford.

Participants thoroughly enjoyed the event, as it gave them an opportunity to meet some friendly faces and make them feel at home in Oxford (even as they were mostly attending the event in their own homes!). The Oxford10 team wishes every fresher the very best as they began their journey from Oxford; if nothing else, the event gave us cause to reminisce fondly.

Answers: Bill Clinton, 100, 1823