Career Life Ballooning is the topic of the next free series that Career Aviators is offering.
Career Life Ballooning is a unique strategy for helping clients to discern their career path using the principles of positive psychology, guided imagery, mindfulness and narrative approaches to career management.
The idea started many years ago when I was involved in helping community groups to plan a healthy neighbourhood using guided imagery (GI). It was very effective in helping participants to plan the future health of their neighbourhood. GI infused a learning mindset and helped them to be positive and creative in their planning.
Later in my career, I was involved in a powerful application of GI. I was in charge of building programmes to strengthen the resilience of seriously ill children and families. We used a variation of GI which helped seriously ill young patients to take charge of their painful procedures. We helped them do this through breathing, relaxation and becoming deeply engaged in an activity, The process enabled them to experience the repeated painful procedures in a different way. Nothing was better than seeing young kids crying when they had to leave the cancer clinic instead of being fearful and resistant upon arrival.
Still later, I learned a new application of guided imagery in debriefing Katimavik staff and participants after completing their very intensive 6- 9 months field experiences. Guided imagery enabled staff and volunteers to pull far more learning from their past experiences.
When I established Career Aviators, I spent a full year doing independent research and meeting with practitioners in the field. When I reviewed the research on Narrative Approaches in Career Management, it just made sense to integrate guided imagery into the process. Clients enjoy the experience and it gives them useful information to help discern their future career path. I believe it is part of the reason that 93% of clients find positions in which they excel, value highly and love to do.
In this series you will get to experience the Career Aviators Career - Life Guided Imagery Process.
In a relaxed state, you will envision yourself in a beautiful hot air balloon looking down on the times in your life when you were happiest and most successful.
We will be your guide in this unique process, adapted from its use in health and business settings.
Next, you will create a life graph of these experiences and we will help you analyze your graph to uncover clues for your future path.
In this free,* one-week program, you will:
Define your strengths,values and what you are most curious about doing
Uncover or confirm the next steps in your career path
Experience the benefits of mindfulness in a job search
Leave with our Blueprint For Effective Job Search
Join us for this 6 day experience (one-hour session 10:00am - 11:00am ET) to discover your career direction
Sessions will be strong in content and light in spirit. We’ll include a blend of dialogue/ instruction, small group discussion and intensive homework assignments ( 1- 2 hours) for the next day of training
Register here and learn more.
