How to Get From Here to There Joyfully: A Dynamic Model for Facilitating Great Career Decisions Dialogue 2008 Leigh Anne Saxe

2 Overview:  Who We Are – University Career Counsellors  The Model  What it incorporates  Intervention examples  It’s about you

3 Who We Are:  MA or M.Ed in Counselling  Members of Professional Associations: Cdn Counselling Assoc., National Career Development Assoc., members of Int’l Assoc. of Positive Psychology.  Case Conferencing, partnerships across campus  Mentoring for Counsellors (level I, level II)

4 Career Development is lifelong. We believe it starts in the Early Years and continues through life… Lots of supports for students and alumni at University!

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6 What it incorporates: 2 Processes: - Internal Clarification - Inspired Exploration Narrative/constructivist Planned happenstance and chance Law of attraction Thoughts and feelings

7 Based on a Narrative Approach… Questions such as:  What did you like to do when you were a little kid?  What did you like in school, classes and outside of school? ie: Lego… why does this matter? There are themes through your life… go through each chapter of their life… what was fun?

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9 Internal Clarification Process:  Walking a client/student through his/her story  Using the Career Sketch to document their data (Desires, Abilities, Temperament and Assets) in their words  The OTHER PEOPLE, Other Factors  Career Curiosities – What are these?  Creating an affirmative, intentional, Career Statement that provides a focus for their Inspired Exploration.

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11 Inspired Exploration Process:  Using your personal Career Statement as a compass to guide you through  Exploring your thoughts and feelings re: work, career, next steps  Taking Action – inspired vs. motivated  Opportunities – created and recognized

12 A Tool from Internal Clarification: DESIRES: What I want and what is important to me People certainly know what they don’t want…

13 Desires Intervention: From Don’t Wants to Wants WANTSDON’T WANTS To have a boss watching my every move! To sit at a desk all day behind a computer! To have movement, to be outside part of the day To have independence, to make my own decisions

14 Exercise: Think now about something you DON’T LIKE or WANT about your current career… Now change this from a DON’T WANT to a WANT.

15 Questioning Tool: For ABILITIES…  Who do you admire? What do you admire about them?  What are you most proud of?

16 Inspired Exploration Intervention: CHOOSE YOUR MINDSET LEARNER mindset – leads to discovery and understanding JUDGER mindset – may lead to frustration and regret

17 Judger Questions/Thoughts are: What is wrong? Who is to blame? How can I be in control? Why bother? Learner Questions/Thoughts are: What works? What can I learn? What is possible?

18 Switching Questions: from judger to learner Am I in a judger mindset right now? How else can I think about this? What assumptions am I making? What do I really want?

19 York University’s Career Centre: Moving Forward Workshop 2008 The Emotional Scale: The Importance of Feelings Despair Fear Rage Revenge Anger FrustrationPessimismHopeOptimismBelief EagernessPassionJoy Appreciation Feelings of Powerlessness Feelings of Self Empowerment Source: adapted from Abraham-Hicks,’Ask and It Is Given’ Feeling of relief

20 It’s About YOU As a Guidance Counsellor… What do you WANT – for your student, for yourself, for your session? YOU, feeling better – assists your client, improves your therapeutic alliance.

21 Ways to Feel Better For YOU:  What are your Desires? Focus on your WANTS!  What do you intend for your student session? (set your intentions)  What are you expecting? What is your MINDSET?  Feeling better is natural… we do things to make us feel better all the time.. What can you do? Look at a picture of your kids, play some music, think about the positive aspects of the work you do..

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