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THIS IS MY YEAR
Friday 30th January 2026
2-6pm at the Melanin Centre
Recharge Your Business Batteries
In this four hour, in person workshop you will undertake a suite of creative activities that will help you to look at: –
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the mix of your work
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the pounds and the pennies
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how you spend, manage and sell your time
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the joy and the pain of it all.
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You will leave re energised with a fresh outlook on the coming year.
Events Archive
Navigating Contemporary Challenges
A Year of Engaging and High Quality Career Coaching CPD throughout 2025​
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Starting with Hope and ending with, appropriately, Endings and New Beginnings, we take a journey through the contemporary career coaching and therapy literature and apply it to ourselves, our clients and our practices.
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Suitable for Career Coaches or other professionals who work with Careers as a topic with clients.
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Each workshop includes a mix of presentations, practical exercises and time for discussion and reflection.
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29th January​
Nurturing Hope​ in Career
​5th March
Career from a Liminality Perspective
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9th April
Who Shapes​ our Careers?​
14th May
Rethinking the Coaching Room​
18th June​
Using Transference & Projective Identification​
16th July​
Working within Diversity Part I
10th September
Working within Diversity Part 2​
1. Nurturing Hope in Career
Explore how coaches can help their clients to nurture and sustain a vital sense of Hope in our challenging world.
4. Rethinking the Coaching Room
Explore the coaching spaces in which we work, from face-to-face and online approaches, to working outdoors.
7. Working within Diversity (Part 2)
Focus in-depth on specific forms of diversity - from ethnicity, to GDSR and neurodiversity issues.
2. Career from a Liminality Perspective
Examine how ideas about liminality can provide insights into supporting clients to navigate complex career challenges.
5. Using Transference & Projective Identification
Examine contemporary ideas about key psychodynamic theories and their valuable role in career coaching.
8. Rethinking Retirement
Explore late-stage career issues in the context of longer working lives, retirement transitions and bridging careers.
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3. Who Shapes our Careers?
Identify who can influence our careers and how new notions of these ‘career shapers’ can assist career development.
6. Working within Diversity (Part I)
Gain an overview of contemporary issues - from the nature of diversity to ethical, power and social justice perspectives.
9. Endings and New Beginnings
Reflect on the critical nature of Endings and how to manage them successfully in the coaching process.