Tools for Transition: Navigating Change and Making Life-Shaping Decisions - January & February 2008

Tools for Transition: Navigating Change and Making Life-Shaping Decisions

January and February 2008

SCWIST Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Postdocs

If you are a woman graduate student or postdoc in science or applied science who is making decisions about what to do next…

Mark your 2008 calendar for Tools for Transition: Navigating Change and Making Life-Shaping Decisions (see http://www.scwist.ca)

The first workshop of this 4-part series is a FULL DAY, and you will need to attend the first workshop in order to participate in the other three.
Space is very LIMITED. Register early. (Contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))

NO registration at the door. You must be pre-register

Dates/Times/Costs:

*To register for the half-day sessions, you must attend the first session. Must be pre-registered.

***ONLY $40 for SCWIST Members who attend all four workshops

Where: SFU Harbour Centre (room number indicated)

Who: Women Graduate Students / Post docs in Science and Applied Science at SFU and UBC

Registration: Contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Looking Back to the Future (Saturday, January 12th FULL DAY 9:00 to 4:00)

• Map key events that have shaped your career
• Introduce a model for navigating through change
• Apply a model of decision-making to your transition point

Decision-Making during Transitions (Saturday, January 26th 9:00 to 1:00)

• Explore key influences that help or hinder you during times of change & decision-making
• Re-defining Success and Visioning an Ideal Work Day
• Your Career Story: identify key interests, skills, values and themes that have shaped your career so far

Values: Anchor Yourself during Storms of Change (Saturday, February 9th 9:00 to 1:00)

• Clarify and update your key work values, for life
• Explore the role money plays in career & life decisions
• Identify key themes about success as you prepare to make future decisions

Your Future Career Story (Saturday, February 23rd 9:00 to 1:00)

• Visioning Your Story of Success
• Clarifying the gaps between now and your future career story
• Review of Goals
• Creating an Action Plan

Note: There will be some reflective writing assignments between workshops

These workshops are sponsored by JADE and SCWIST with in-kind support from SFU.

How can we use change as an opportunity to make meaningful decisions about our lives and careers? We are often called upon to make important choices during times of change, yet many of us resist moving forward because the experience of change – the transition – is confusing and uncomfortable. Transitioning from post graduate education to professional life may be unsettling yet this change may also hold potential to identify what is most important while letting go of beliefs and values that may not work for you anymore.

During these interactive sessions, you will have a chance to apply a practical model of transition to your own life and career changes in order to deepen your exploration of key career and life questions and to clarify what is important as you make decisions for the future.

During this series of 4 workshops you will have an opportunity to reflect, discuss and actively engage with other women in science and technology. The goal is to learn to identify what you need to put in place before making your next career.

During this series, you will:

• Review past decisions and influences as a way to clarify skills and interests for the future
• Clarify personal and work values
• Explore specific themes such as Money and Success
• Identify constraints that may limit new plans
• Create a grounded action plan for the future

Join us for this series of lively workshops that include discussion, activity, reflection and an opportunity to sort out what is important now, with other women in science and technology. Drawing from her popular career transition course called Working on Purpose Sally will engage you in a way of thinking about change and decision-making, so that you can experience them creatively and with purpose.

Sally Halliday, M.A. RCC (Counselling Psychology) is principal of Sally Halliday Counselling and Consulting Services. In addition to counselling individuals and couples in her private practice and Employee Assistance work, Sally develops and teaches courses at UBC Life and Career Centre. Sally combines her academic research on transitions with her practical experience as a teacher, counsellor and former journalist to help others who are making decisions during times of change. Sally teaches skiing in her spare time.