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Guiding Circles Trina Bučko National Director, Organizational Inclusion Strategies

Guiding Circles Trina Bučko National Director, Organizational Inclusion Strategies. Agenda. Introductions Building the 10 minute network Background of Guiding Circles Overview Guiding Circles themes Four Challenges Guiding Circles addresses Part I : Understanding Yourself

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Guiding Circles Trina Bučko National Director, Organizational Inclusion Strategies

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  1. Guiding Circles Trina Bučko National Director, Organizational Inclusion Strategies

  2. Agenda • Introductions • Building the 10 minute network • Background of Guiding Circles • Overview Guiding Circles themes • Four Challenges Guiding Circles addresses • Part I : Understanding Yourself • Favourite Things Activity • Stepping Stones • Part II: Finding New Possibilities • Even More Possibilities • Expanding the Decision Circle • Summary, Q & A • How you can get involved

  3. Challenge our Personal Conventions & Perceptions Don’t see what is actually there.

  4. Background of Guiding Circles • The Aboriginal Human Resource Council, in partnership with Guiding Circles authors (Amundson, McCormick & Poehnell), launched the program in 2003. • Combines contemporary career theories with an Aboriginal perspective • story telling, community involvement, medicine wheel. • Capacity building program that offers a flexible, practical and innovative approach. • Have engaged over 1800 practitioners and distributed over 20,000 workbooks.

  5. Guiding CirclesPart I: Understanding YourselfFocus: Self Assessment Who Am I?

  6. Guiding CirclesPart II: Finding New PossibilitiesFocus: Career Exploration & Decision Making What Can I do?

  7. Sample of our clients Education • York, Brock, & Ottawa Universities • Northwest, Nova Scotia, & Assiniboine Community Colleges • Toronto, Prairie Spirit, & Delta District School Boards Youth & social initiatives • Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada • First Nations Social Development Society • Corcan Employers & Aboriginal employment strategies • Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines • Yukon Mine Training Association • Matachewan's Aboriginal Access to Mining Jobs Training Strategy • ShooniyaaWa-Biitong Aboriginal communities • TetlitGwich’in Council • Kativik Regional Government • Meadow Lake Tribal Council Oil & Gas Secretariat • Carcross/Tagish First Nation

  8. Four challenges for the non-mainstream client • Need for culturally sensitive tools and processes • Sense of disconnection with the mainstream world of learning and work • Lack of positive & focused self reflection. • Enculturated humility

  9. Need for culturally sensitive tools & processes • Majority of career tools use a business based language & approach • For some Aboriginal people, there could be conflicts in sense of individual vs. community decision making approach • Need for life story to be the starting point for career • Coaching setting is often formal

  10. Disconnectionwithwork and school • Learning is often only recognized in the formal education sense of degrees, diplomas, etc • How do we qualify life lessons or teachings from family, community & elders? • Work is often recognized only in the “paid” work we do • How do we recognize the work done in our life roles with family or community?

  11. Lack of Positive Self-Reflection To answer the question WHO AM I? I must first know who WHO I AM?

  12. To answer the question… WHO AM I? One must be able to freely say… I AM __________

  13. Lack of positive & focused self reflection • “I don’t know…” • “I’m not good at anything…” • “They say I am pretty good at…” • “I can tell you a lot about this activity…” • “What are you going to do… maybe I should too.”

  14. Enculturated Humility • “don’t brag about yourself..” • “you’re just like all the others..” • “don’t think you’re special…” • Often in community we are taught not be boastful…but what happens when we are sent on a job interview? • Sell yourself! • We need to help our people find a comfortable balance between these concepts

  15. CAREER Five-year plan work education skills Engage where the person is engaged in life!! LIFE

  16. My Career Circle

  17. Guiding CirclesPart I: Understanding Yourself

  18. Understanding Yourself • Connections • Telling Your Story • Patterns • Values • Favourite Things • Balance • Expanding the circle • 10 things I want in my work life • Stepping Stones • The Journey Continues

  19. Guiding CirclesPart I: Understanding Yourself “My Favourite Things”

  20. last time? cost or free? Favourite Things up to 12 things I like to do planned or spontaneous? alone or with others? mind, body, emotion, spirit?

  21. Stepping Stones 1. vision Imagine having reached your goal...describe what it looks like in detail Often we rush from vision to action.. without considering or being aware of decisions that need to occur daily 2. decision What were the necessary steps you took to make your vision happen? 3. action What are the key actions to help move you toward your vision?

  22. Guiding CirclesPart II: Finding New Possibilities

  23. Finding New Possibilities • Connections • Possibilities, More Possibilities, Even More Possibilities • Spirit of Entrepreneurship • Narrowing the Path • Career Info Circle • Getting the Info • Comparing Circles • Looking Down the Path • Expanding the Decision Circle

  24. Introductions • Career is a journey, a path … not just a destination • We must prepare people not for the one perfect job but for the life long journey

  25. Guiding Circles ActivityPart II: Finding New Possibilities “Even More Possibilities”

  26. Even More Possibilities What is the problem with career goals like “nurse” or “teacher”? Too general It is difficult to make specific decisions from generalities

  27. Generating Even More Possibilities Nursing… what are the possibilities • What do nurses do? • What are some of the kinds of nurses? • Where do nurses work? • What other types of businesses or organizations also use nurses/medical care? • What services support nursing?

  28. Nursing…and even more possibilities • Registered nurse • Nursing assistant • Dental assistant • Midwife • Medical social worker • Dietician • Doctor • Optometrist • Medical lab technician • Pharmacist • Nursing Instructor • Home Care Aide • Community Health Representative • Nutritionist • Pharmacy Technician • Medical Equipment & Supplies Clerk • Medical claims assessor

  29. My Career Circle Career Info Circle Comparing the Circles Who you are points to what you can do… ?

  30. personal research others’ feedback Expanding the Decision Circle

  31. How do you get involved? • Guiding Circles can be used by a variety of practitioners • 75% of training now delivered in-house • Sponsor training for community organizations & schools, summer camps, or youth initiatives • Use it internally as a career advancement, assessment and workforce planning tool

  32. 2011 Public Workshops Part I: Understanding Yourself • Toronto May 25-26 • Calgary June 14-15 Part II : Finding New Possibilities • Toronto September 27-28 • Calgary September 20-21

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