Click here to view my PowerPoint presentation on Creating "Careers with Confidence" published on "Google Docs" for use individually or in a classroom/small group setting. It includes important researched-based concepts with references, relevant visuals, enjoyable activities, and useful live Internet links.   

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At Pete's request and thinking it did make sense - here's my first blog contribution.

Currently I'm sitting quite smuggly (in shorts and t-shirt) in New Zealand where the day has started bright and sunny and is now 25 degrees - yep summer has been here a while and looks like staying for a little longer!  Knowing most of you are in a northern hemisphere winter - just wanted you to know how the other half of the world is living at this moment!

It is therefore summer holidays - but a chance to think and reflect without the hiatus of normal 'work' stuff crowding in.  Mostly thinking about family and what we will do from one day to the next to entertain ourselves as my wife and I have a mermaid as a 10 year old daughter! 

Anyway - work stuff does creep in though.  Next year is another IAEVG conference in Wellington http://www.avenues.co.nz/careers/index.html - the last one was in 2002.  One of the themes is transformational technology.  I'm hoping that I will be able to co-present with Tannis Goddard from Canada and do a workshop on e-guidance.  We did this in Hobart last year, where Tannis was also a keynote, at the Australian Association of Career Counsellors http://www.cdaa.org.au/.  Interestingly speaking about delivering careers services online has started to gain traction in Australia.  The year before - maybe 30 people turned up to a workshop - this year we had 80!!

I think mainly allaying people's fears that online is a legitimate medium for delivery of servides is maiking a difference - you don't just have to be sat with someone f2f to deliver an effective service!  Just ask the Samaritans phone service in the UK!  Through my work at Career Services (the NZ Government department charged with delivering careers info, advice and guidance to NZers) I found it so frustrating trying to discuss the use of career practitioners using an online tool with clients! 

So I'm gearing up for a conference where we may be able to get more practitioners to consider incorporating this form of delivery for their clients.  Norm Amundson points out that we have certain social conventions in the counselling relationship - which we have come to accept but the history and purpose we have forgotten.  These conventions I believe are the blocks to online delivery of career guidance.  Often this is the starting point for my workshops - 'why don't we do this?'

Well that's enough thinking for today - need a mince pie by the pool!  

Take something that you enjoy doing, like maybe you enjoy doing interviews, and you start to talk about where the joy comes from. Then you examine your love for this specific activity and I ask more questions that lead you to explore at an expanded level. Through this process you will usually develop a better understanding of what it is about interviewing that makes it so interesting for you.  Hopefully you will also start to see that it actually reflects some bigger patterns in your life. So with the PIE we take a small joyful activity in your life, and through elaboration and analysis begin to see that it reflects some of your life values and your desires for a good life. With the Pattern Identificat ion Exercise, it is not that shallow little stone ski pping across the water, but the stone sinking down to the bottom. And as you get more and more information about this one thing, you find patterns that reflect the whole thing, different parts of your life. There are connections.

Norm Amunson (from DPU Quarterly Newsletter: Hansen and Amundson, Talking Silence, http://www.dpu.dk/site.aspx?p=8649&newsid1=4358)

Thank you for your interest in my new self-paced career exploration workbook "Creating Careers with Confidence" (CCC). I want to make your career exploration and planning experience easy, effective, and enjoyable! Here are some options to help you with your career exploration and planning. Select the option that you think best fits your schedule and is the most effective way to accomplish your career exploration objectives.

Please e-mail me at careercoachcolozzi@verizon.net or call me at 781 721-1200 or toll free at 1 877 6 WISHES if you have any questions. 

My workbook is self-paced and easy to follow. If you are looking for direction and are dealing with a career-life transition, here are some options you might want to consider.

1. You can purchase CCC using the how-to-order link below and do it on your own or in conjunction with career counseling you can receive from your school, college, or agency setting.

2. You can access CCC on-line using the link for CourseSmart below and do CCC totally on your own on-line.

3. You can purchase my workbook from the how-to- order link below and work with me on-line using the link to Lifework Planning System below.

4. You can purchase my workbook from the how-to-order link below and work with me directly using e-mails. If you also want to speak with me and live in the USA, you can use my toll-free number below (for USA only).

 

1. How to order CCC (Creating Careers with Confidence)
   

 

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3. Working with Me On-Line Using Lifework
   

 

4. Working with Me Using E-mails And Phone Calls Via My Toll-Free Phone Number
   

 

 

When working on your whole relationship with yourself, and in trying to move forward in your life goals and decisions, ask yourself this:

 

HOW DIFFERENT WOULD YOUR LIFE BE IF YOU TREATED YOURSELF THE WAY THAT YOU TRY TO TREAT OTHER PEOPLE?

 

The answers I've gotten as a result of asking this one question have been profound!  We, as humans, tend to take care of everybody else before taking care of ourselves; therefore we tend to treat others so much better than we do ourselves!  Try to imagine a life in which you treated yourself just as well as you do others....what would that look like?....how different would things be for  you?.... You can neglect yourself for awhile; but, over time, you will notice that areas of your life begin to suffer when you do so.  Treating yourself well is a necessary key to having a fulfilling life that works.  Start your spring out on the right path for you, try treating yourself as well as you do others!

 

Happy Easter to All!!

Kristine 

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