Psyc For life: Development, life and career planning
NEW COURSE Available to Book
Successful Transitions to Post-Secondary Life: Using Developmental Life Design
Are you done or about to be done high school? What next? Do you have a plan or some ideas about how to make a plan? If you do, are you happy with it? Confident with it? No doubts at all? If you don’t have a plan, have you any thoughts about how you are going to get one? Or about how or where to start thinking about it? This course will provide you with the tools you need to make a successful transition to post-secondary life (no matter what you end up doing). You will find out about the developmental changes you are in the middle of and about how you can use this knowledge to set yourself up for a smooth transition to whatever you are going to do next, whether that is work and/or travel, college or university, apprenticeship or technical training, or setting up your own business.
When your parents were in high school they were likely told that they could look forward to having 3 to 5 jobs over the course of their working lives – jobs all in the same or similar areas. They were told to pick a career path that interested them and prepare themselves for a job or series of jobs which probably already existed out in the job market. That is not the world you are moving out into. Now we are telling young adults, like yourself, that you will likely have 3 to 5 careers over the course of your work life and that the jobs that 65% of today’s junior high school students get when they do not even exist yet. It is a different world and these differences are probably (at least partially) to blame for the significantly higher rates of anxiety and uncertainty we see in young people taking up their transitions to post-secondary life. Now, you can, like almost half of first year university students, struggle with anxiety, uncertainty and lack of direction or you can look a little more closely at some of the skills, abilities, and insights you have developed within yourself over the past few years and see how you can use them as ways to positively get on with life. That is Developmental Life Design and it is what this course is about – it involves looking at things that you already have bits and pieces of and things that you can use to chart or design a life-course that will move you forward in the world as it is today and which will help you experience less anxiety and stress and will help you move forward with more confidence into a life with a stronger sense of purpose and greater feelings of accomplishment and fulfillment. To help with this process you will be able to complete a number of survey tools that will provide you with personal and confidential feedback about your current life perspectives. Finally, towards the end of the course, you will have an opportunity to meet privately with the course instructor and discuss your current Developmental Life Design perspectives, your survey data, and to consider your Life Design goals and opportunities. Come and find out what Developmental Life Design tools you already have, pick up a few more and start designing your life!
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If you have questions about the course, e-mail Mike Boyes, the course creator and instructor, at mike-boyes@shaw.ca.
If you would like see Mike talk about the course, check out this YouTube video link: https://youtu.be/MNn1KNIN6rs