CCDA Workshop, Stanford University, November 7, 2009
Sue Aiken & Sally Gelardin
Slow Career: Creating a Slow and Sustainable Lifestyle
Download Worksheet: Slow Career Worksheet.pdf
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Download Map: Slow & Sustainable Lifework Map.pdf
VENUE
California Career Development Association 2009 Conference
DATE
November 7, 2009
LOCATION
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
TITLE
“Slow Career: Creating a Slow and Sustainable Lifestyle”
LEVEL OF INTENDED AUDIENCE
All
CONFERENCE FOCUS TRACK
This topic is a “general” track because many American workers, including career professionals, are in hyper-drive. A 2005 study sponsored by Hewlett-Packard showed that the I.Q.s of workers who responded quickly to the constant barrage of e-mails they received during the day fell 10 points, more than double the I.Q. drop of someone smoking marijuana. The stress of their clients also affects career professionals, who are on overload with out-placed workers, students, and family caregivers who are seeking work.
SESSION DESCRIPTION, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Slow Career is an outgrowth of Slow Food and the Slow Movement, emphasizing the slowing down of time in the creation and consumption of products as a corrective to the frenetic pace of the 21st century life. Individuals who use this model of Slow Career, who experience a shift in career may seek life changes such as a manageable distance between home and office, living with intention in community, shared work and home resources, or clearer separation between work and home/family.
GOAL
Learn how to identify and incorporate principles of Slow Career into your work with clients and your own life style
Objectives
1. Participants will identify a career issue that they commonly experience related to moving too fast (i.e., compassion fatigue, lack of support in the workplace, overworked, underpaid, fear of future).
2. Participants will identify their needs (i.e., assessing stress - personal, interpersonal, wellness, time, occupational) and strengths (i.e., transferable skills, values, personality traits) and determine how their personal strengths meet the needs of an eco-conscious society.
3. Participants will describe their sources of support (i.e., interpersonal [community, service professionals, colleagues, work associates]; intra-personal [hobbies, meditation, physical exercise]).
4. Participants will explore slow career options (i.e., simply lifestyle, housing options)
5. Participants will become aware of where life is taking them (goals and intentions) and what life is suggesting by creating an action plan).
LEARNING ASSESSMENT
Participants will begin to create a Slow & Sustainable Lifework Map, including the 5 objectives above and describe what slow career means to them.
*Green, P. (January 31, 2008). The Slow Life Picks Up Speed. The New York Times.
PRESENTERS
Sue Aiken, MA, NCC, MCC
Sue’s 25 plus year career as a career counseling professional includes private practice, chair of the graduate program in career development at John F. Kennedy University, associate professor in Career Development, Faculty Senate member, and now as a certified Distance Career Counselor affiliated with the Career Development Alliance. She was president and vice president of CCDA, and co-chair of an International Career Development Conference (ICDC). Currently Sue serves as president of the board of the California Registry of Professional Counselors and Paraprofessionals. Field Editor of the Independent section of Career Convergence, NCDA’s online magazine, and the liaison between CCDA and California Coalition for Counselor Licensure (CCCL), serving on both boards. Sue has received two awards: CCDA’s Robert Swan Lifetime Achievement in Career Development and NCDA’s Practitioner of the Year.
Sally Gelardin, Ed.D. (International & Multicultural Education), NCC, DCC, JCTC, GCDF, CDF e-Learning Instructor
Through e-learning curriculum design and development, career expert interviews, presentations, radio/television interviews, and publications for print and electronic media, Dr. Gelardin demonstrates ways workers in transition can develop lifelong employability skills. Dr. Gelardin is author of three books: The Mother-Daughter Relationship: Activities for Promoting Lifework Success, Starting and Growing a Business in the New Economy: Leading Career Entrepreneurs Share Stories and Strategies (National Career Development Association, 2007), Career and Caregiving: Empowering the Shadow Workforce of Family Caregivers (NCDA, 2009). She is a contributor to several books, including The ACA Encyclopedia of Counseling (American Counseling Association, 2009). Dr. Gelardin is past-president of the California Career Development Association In 2008, she was honored by the California Career Development Association with the Robert Swan Award for Lifetime Achievement in Career Development. She received the California Counseling Association 2009 Service Award in Appreciation for Outstanding Leadership Contributions and the 2004 NCDA Merit Award for significant contributions to the field of career development.
