A Better Story Online is a new resource for the personal and professional development of career professionals and teachers. This comprehensive video course integrates and expands concepts and activities from Guiding Circles, Hope Filled Engagement, and A Better Story. It emphasizes a holistic, accessible approach to assisting diverse peoples as they craft a better story on their life/career journey.
Crafting a better story is an essential skill in today’s chaotic world of life and work. As we interact with people, we are not just dealing with them and their circumstances but also with their inner stories (conscious or unconscious) through which they are viewing their world. Because of their life circumstances, the story that far too many people follow is one of hopelessness, one that implies that there is no point in really trying. We may not be able to change people’s life circumstances, but we can assist them to be hopeful and intentional about the life-long process of crafting a story of hope, a story that can sustain and guide them as they explore all their potential on their life/career journey.
Learning Objectives
This course will empower you to:
- Create a toolkit of practical, adaptable concepts and activities
- Reflect critically on counselling conventions that may hinder effectiveness when serving diverse populations
- Supplement mainstream approaches with accessible, client-centred ones that engage people with hope
- Leverage Career Circle as a framework to collect information and to organize and evaluate information about specific career possibilities
- Facilitate self-discovery through storytelling
- Guide people rather than direct them through questioning strategies that grow their self-esteem and enable them to take more ownership over their career/life journeys
- Inspire people’s creativity and self-awareness in supporting them to navigate their career/life possibilities in an increasingly chaotic and changing world
Completion
Competencies Addressed
This course is aimed at the acquisition and application of competencies 1.1 | 2.1 | 3.1-3.2 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 4.1-4.3 | 5.3 | 6.2 | 7.2-7.4 | 8.1-8.6 | 9.1 | 10.1-10.2 | 11.2-11.5 | 12.1-12.3 | 13.1-13.9 | 14.1-14.3 | 19.1 | 19.3 | 20.1 | 20.3-20.4 | 21.2 | 23.1-23.4 | 24.3 | 25.1-25.5 | 26.1-26.2 as described in the Competency Framework for Career Development Professionals.
