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ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT: THE BEING AND DOING OF CAREER COUNSELLING

Discover the Active Engagement approach emphasizing joy, building confidence, and exploring moments of satisfaction, with stories and metaphors enhancing self-esteem and guiding towards action and self-discovery.

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ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT: THE BEING AND DOING OF CAREER COUNSELLING

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  1. ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT: THE BEING AND DOING OF CAREER COUNSELLING Norman Amundson University of British Columbia amundson@interchange.ubc.ca

  2. THE ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT APPROACH • Critical awareness of underlying assumptions • Emphasis on relationship building, confidence building, joy, positive emotions • Flexibility, imagination and creativity • Activity beyond discussion - visual and physical movement • A focus on ‘being’ as well as ‘doing’

  3. APPLYING ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT • Readiness • Recruitment • Retention

  4. FOCUSING ON JOYFUL MOMENTS • There is more to life than problems • Explore moments of joy and satisfaction • when do they occur • in what context • what needs are being fulfilled

  5. STORIES • A natural way to share experience • Invite emotional and cognitive engagement • Help us remember and integrate information • Influence self esteem • Have the power to move us to action

  6. ‘BACKSWING’ STORIES • Moving backwards to generate energy • Components: • backward motion • release • follow through • Psychologically, backswing stories build self esteem prior to action • Stories can be used as part of the ‘backswing process’

  7. INTERPRETING THE STORY • Look for the person behind the story • Each person is defined by context but they also are more than their culture, gender, age, work role, physical ability, mental status, etc.

  8. ACTIVITY: CIRCLE OF STRENGTH • Hear the story • Identify strengths: • Skills • Aptitudes • Attitudes • Apply the insights to current problems • The result: action supported by self-confidence

  9. CONTEXTUAL BASED INTERVIEWING • What career advice have you have received from others and what are your thoughts about this.? • How are career decisions made in your family and how are different occupations valued? • In making career decisions does the spiritual domain play a part?

  10. MOST PEOPLE NEVER RUN FAR ENOUGH ON THEIR FIRST WIND TO FIND OUT THEY HAVE A SECOND. GIVE YOUR DREAMS ALL THAT YOU HAVE AND YOU WILL BE AMAZED AT THE ENERGY THAT COMES OUT OF YOU. William James (1842-1910)

  11. METAPHORS • Use familiar imagery for understanding • Bring order and structure • Pull things together • Expand possibilities and perspectives

  12. EXPLORING AND EXTENDING CAREER METAPHORS • Moving from internal to external • Collaboration, Empathy • Driven by natural curiosity • Incorporate time line perspective • Use drawings when possible.

  13. MULTIPLE CAREER METAPHORS • Developing creativity and imagination • Opening up new possibilities • Client and counsellor generated using lists of metaphors

  14. MAGNETIC ATTRACTION AS A METAPHOR FORWORKPLACE ATTACHMENT

  15. ATTRACTOR SHIFTS • Changing values: age, gender, culture • Developmental changes: butterfly effect; tipping point; role shifts; traumatic events

  16. WHEN ATTRACTORS DON’T MATCH • Questions About: Motivation, Work Ethic, Ambition, Commitment, Maturity, Stability, Depth, Self Esteem, Warmth, Decision Making, Creativity

  17. METAPHOR ACTIVITY: UP, UP AND AWAY! • Imagine a series of hot air balloons (Why, How, Whom, Vision, Flexibility, Health) to offer perspective to life / career problems. • Construct a drawing of the balloons you are currently holding. How much air is in each of them? You may also want to represent the balloons using different colors and/or shapes.

  18. UP, UP, AND AWAY: CAREER SELF ASSESSMENT Appendix VI Health Knowing Why Flexibility Vision Knowing Whom Knowing How

  19. ACTIVITY: LIFE/CAREER AS A BOOK • Book Title • Chapter Headings • Chapters Still to be Written

  20. LIVING WITH HOPE • Focusing on the positive • Believing in the “possible” • Trusting oneself

  21. ACTING WITH COURAGE AND HUMILITY • Discovering the “hero” within • Seeking adventure • Persisting when problems arise • Accepting help from others • “Positive Uncertainty”

  22. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITY • Following natural curiosity • Exploring widely • Being flexible and open minded • Willing to take risks • “Planned Happenstance”

  23. THANKS FOR BEING PART OF TODAY Norman Amundson University of British Columbia amundson@interchange.ubc.ca www.ergoncommunications.com

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