Description:
When we find ourselves in a new place or are feeling lost, we look for directional signs, recognizable landmarks and more to help us find our way. This is wayfinding.
Andrea Fruhling and Norm Amundson present practical activities to guide you on your career journey in Career Wayfinder, the newest resource from Doubleknot Works. Using the Hope-Action Theory as a foundation, this workbook delves into concepts like liminal space, mapping, metaphors, and more. With the easy-to-apply Career Wheel as an organizing structure, you'll work through exercises that help you reflect on and clarify your skills, interests, values, style, experiences, significant others, and opportunities. You'll explore your options, create an achievable plan, put goals into action, and build forward momentum in your career.
Brief description: Andrea Fruhling (PCC) is a Certified Organizational Coach, the Founding Director of Doubleknot Works, a Mentor Coach & Instructor for the University of British Columbia's Organizational Coaching certification program, the developer and lead instructor for the Career Coaching Masterclass (UBC), and expert trainer for the internationally attended Certification in Hope-Action Theory & Practice. Andrea leads the International Coaching Federation's Career Coaching Community of Practice, and is a certified facilitator in the LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) Methodology.Andrea develops and delivers training and group coaching programs for coaches, industry leaders, and organizations, helping them find engaging and impactful ways to work with people, support career development, and increase hopefulness. She has delivered numerous keynote presentations and workshops for national and international conferences, career development associations, organizations, and a broad range of client groups. Her work is practical and engaging with a focus on creativity, active, strengths-based learning, team engagement, and hope.
Review Quotes:
This workbook is truly amazing! It is accessible, engaging, and clear and offers delightfully practical projects that make career discovery an enlightening and rewarding journey. An essential tool for anyone seeking to navigate their career path with confidence and clarity.
Alistair Gordon Director, Wellspring Counselling
This workbook of "delightfully practical projects" makes important career development tasks feel fun and light. This is how it should be. Career development is not a problem. Career development is a normal and natural part of human life, and the Career Wayfinder treats it as such. The way Fruhling & Amundson approach it-with metaphors, activities, quizzes, reflections, and maps-wayfinding can be interesting, enjoyable, productive, and sometimes surprising. This is a resource for anyone, but it will be particularly helpful for those who have stopped along their path to sit for a moment, take a breath, and consider their next direction.
Dr. Dave Redekopp President, Life-Role Development Group, Canada
I'm thrilled to see how Andrea and Norm so creatively integrated a variety of activities, prompts and practical tips into this inspiring "wayfinding" tool! Navigating career decision-making may feel daunting, but with a little hope, positivity, and the invitation to embrace the uncertainty of liminal space, this workbook may be the beginning of your next career (and life!) chapter.
Nadine Islas Acting Provincial Manager, Youth, Métis Nation BC
This workbook accompanies the reader through a series of clearly defined and inviting steps, each building toward greater self-awareness, inspiring creativity, and creating the conditions for the courage to reflect on your past and build your career future. Using rich metaphors, imagination, and possibility thinking, Career Wayfinder gives you what you need to become the author of your own career story. If you are keen to reflect on where you've been and what's most important to you now as a foundation for creating the next chapter in your career story, then this is the book for you!
Sareena Hopkins Executive Director, Canadian Career Development Foundation
What a truly delightful resource! Andrea and Norm have found a way to help simplify the complex and confusing questions of work and life and have even made it fun and engaging. And it's so practical too! Veteran and novice practitioners alike will find something in Career Wayfinder that will either be a new addition to their practice or a needed refresher.
Tony Bothello Managing Career Center Director, The University of British Columbia