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Transcript of Gray Poehnell Ergon Communications [email protected] Guiding Circles.
Focus:Self-assessment:
Who am I?
Guiding Circles:
an Aboriginal guide to finding career paths
Booklet 1: understanding yourself
Guiding Circles:
an Aboriginal guide to finding career paths
Booklet 2: finding new possibilities
Focus:Career Exploration & Decision Making:
What can I do?
Vancouver
Vancouver
Richmond
Steveston
Steveston
Abraham Belanger (1849-1917), Philomene Delorme (1870-1927) and family
me and my brother
My Mom
answer the question
WHO AM I?
by completing the following…
My name is _____ and I am _________.
without referring to your job or “work” at allIf you can’t think of anything, just pass
Guiding Circles Introductions
WHO AM I?
I am ______________.
without referring to your job or “work” at all
Did you find this easy or difficult?What made it easy or difficult?
Guiding Circles Introductions
• the ethical and practical development of knowledge, skills, and practices
• experiential & interactive - theory and practices
• critically reflect upon your own counselling experience
• representative intervention strategies
• the creative adaptation of the model
Guiding Circles Workshop Description
addresses 4 challenges:
Guiding Circles
addresses 4 challenges:
1. need for culturally sensitive tools and processes
Guiding Circles
5-year plan
wo
rk e
xp ed exp
skills, etc
CAREER
LIFE
addresses 4 challenges:
1. need for culturally sensitive tools and processes
2. sense of disconnection, especially with the mainstream world of learning and work
Guiding Circles
5-year plan
wo
rk e
xp ed exp
skills, etc
CAREER
LIFE Engage where the person is engaged in life!!
addresses 4 challenges:
1. need for culturally sensitive tools and processes
2. sense of disconnection with the mainstream world of learning and work
3. lack of positive focused self-reflection
Guiding Circles
to answer the question
WHO AM I?
I must first know who
WHO I AM.
yet many don’t know who they are
Lack of Positive Self-Reflection:
addresses 4 challenges:
1. need for culturally sensitive tools and processes
2. sense of disconnection with the mainstream world of learning and work
3. lack of positive focused self-reflection
4. inhibitions because of enculturated humility
Guiding Circles
to answer the question
WHO AM I?
one must be able to freely say
I AM __________
yet in some culturesthis is considered arrogant
Well first it was the R P S, War Party to be the best And Buffalo Lake they want to test They ain't never heard no rappers rip like us Métis Mafia now who's ready to bust I'm telling all you rappers put you mic straight down Because you're trying to beat a king and you got no crown.
The G.C. Book
Tyler Blyan & Justine Dumais
I heard of four stabbings in Buffalo Lake Native, you end up in a body bag.Then first off it was AADAC ClassAnd sometimes I wonder even if I did passAnd if I didn't I'm just a kid with FASBut I'm trying to live my life just to make it the best
The G.C. Book
Yo! The GC Book Gotta' take a look Yeah, it helps me see It's okay to be me It's a real cool tool Says ya' gotta stay in school Don't get off track Gonna' land on your back But June our friend Will help us again Gotta' stay in gear Gotta' find my career So you need this tool Ya' gotta' stay in school Don't be you Mama's fool Get a job!
The G.C. Book
Now we’re rappin’ on stage and we’re doing it liveI’m telling you all who think of suicideThink of who you knowBefore you’re ready to dieI don’t want no one to think like thatThat’s why you listen to the words that I put in this rap I'll rap all day just so you get the message Of what I'm trying to say.
The G.C. Book
Well, did you get it Or did you even think Don't you get the messageThat we're trying to bring If you didn't let me tell you one more timeSo let’s kick it up a notch and let me bust a rhyme.
Do ya' get it? Do ya' get it? Do ya' get it?
The G.C. Book
Yo! The GC Book
Gotta Take a look
Yeah, it helps me see
It’s okay to be me
It’s a real cool tool
Says ya gotta stay in school
Gotta' stay in gear
Gotta' find my career
Do ya' get it?
Favourite Thingsup to 12 things I like to do?
last time?
cost or free?
planned or spontaneous?
alone or with others?
mind, body, emotion, spirit?
Favourite Things
Any patterns?
Any thing surprising?
Easy or harder than the “Who am I ?” question?
Why?
need to check one’s assumptions and conventions in terms of attitudes, perspectives,
tools, and processes
• Assumptions & Conventions
Key Themes of Guiding Circles
• Assumptions & Conventions
• Aboriginal Perspective
Key Themes of Guiding Circles
utilize strengths from the Aboriginal perspective; it reflects the thoughts and desires of many other people
• Assumptions & Conventions
• Aboriginal Perspective
• Active Engagement
Key Themes of Guiding Circles
need to engage people where they are engaged in life
• Mattering
Key Themes of Guiding Circles
a “mattering climate” in which participants feel that they matter,
that they are special
• Mattering
• Backswing
Key Themes of Guiding Circles
in order to go forward, people often must have
to go backwards
• Mattering
• Backswing
• Career Craft
Key Themes of Guiding Circles
a new paradigm of creativity, hope, and possibilities
for the chaotic world of work and life
1.first 5 words 2.first 5 words
3.compare & contrast
management
CareerCraft is a new paradigm for a new career reality.
This new reality, described by such terms as “chaos” and “positive uncertainty,”
calls for new approaches which are more holistic, flexible, and creative. We will explore the value of looking at career
issues from the perspective of “craft”—the “art of career”
more than just the “management of career.”
Creativity is moving up the list of essential business skills needed to survive and succeed
in the fast and complex new society.
Many books and articles in the Harvard Business Review and other business magazines urge us
to pay more than lip service to the creative process.
Weaver, J. (2000). Ceativity. Community Banker, 9 (1), 16-19
Why is creativity getting all of this attention?
Because the rules of the new economy are changing, not only quickly but fundamentally.
We are on new and shifting ground with no clear path
and no one to show us the way.We have to make it up.
hands-on
purposefulpractical
materials
My Career Circle
(materials)
hands-on
purposefu
l
practical
materialstools
processes
Career Craft Processes
work
mai
ntenan
ce CAREER
assessment /
exploration
life-
long
lear
ning
work search
hands-on
purposefulpractical
materialstools
processes
possibilities
individual
pass
ion uncertainty
risk
flexib
le
right brain
inner resources
• Wholistic life/career counselling
Key Themes of Guiding Circles
need to work out the reality that career is more than a job, it is the
sum total of all life roles
The “Circle”
What does the “circle” represent as a metaphor?
health
wholeness
balance
life cycles
community participati
onrespect connected
unity momentum
• Wholistic life/career counselling
• Identity clarified through 2 key circles
Key Themes of Guiding Circles
a consistent framework for self-discovery and
career exploration/decision making
• Wholistic life/career counselling
• Identity clarified through 2 key circles
• Values and Life Balance
Key Themes of Guiding Circles
equip people to know & live with their values in an increasingly
confusing pluralistic world
• Expanding the Circle
Key Themes of Guiding Circles
recognize and honour the community perspective
• Expanding the Circle
• Creative Decision/Action Planning
Key Themes of Guiding Circles
need to walk in the realities of life’s uncertain journey
5-year plan
wor
k ex
p ed exp
skills, etc
CAREER
LIFE
I can’t say that
Who am I?
Not my world
STARTING POINT?
Guiding Circles: Booklets 1 & 2
work
mai
ntenan
ce CAREER
assessment /
exploration
life-
long
lear
ning
work search
Booklets 2
Booklets 1
My Career Circle
Expanding the Circle
others’ feedback
personal reflection
Connections
role
s support
CareerCircle
Identityin Context
Connections
Living with the
Whirlwind
Living with Possibilities
The Art of Possibilities by Zander & Zander
“problem”
“reality”
Connections
Brainstorm:
• People?• Activities?• Places?• Concepts?• Things?
POSSIBILITIES!
role
s support
5-year plan
wo
rk e
xp ed exp
skills, etc
CAREER
LIFE
Who am I???
start here
That shows1. where to start2. what to look for3. how to look for it
A story-telling approach
LIFEFavourite
things
Experiences
Role ModelsDreams
Activities Places
Hobbies
Many starting points!
reflection
story-telling with realistic steps to positive focused self-reflection
Patterns:
Self-reflection
storytelling???
connection
LIFE
5-year plan
wo
rk e
xp ed exp
skills, etc
CAREER
LIFE Engage where the person is engaged in life!!
telling
refecting
connecting
Effective questioning is key to good storytelling
1. To facilitate clients’ telling their own story
2. To facilitate clients’ self-discovery vs our telling them
3. To facilitate clients’ ownership of findings and growth in self-esteem
Johari Window
SELF
known not knownO
TH
ER
S kn
ow
nn
ot
kn
ow
n
open blind
hidden unknown
Taking Ownership Window
FEEDBACK
neg. pos.S
EL
F-E
ST
EE
M hig
hlo
w
/won’t accept
accept
accept /won’t accept
feel bad feel good
feel bad feel good
What do you see?How many observations can you make about a penny?
The Penny
The PennyHow many?Number?Type of tree?Sizes?Number of points?Veins?Number of veins?Branches?Number of branches?Shape of stem?Features of stem?Placement of each element?
Leaves?
The Penny Who is it?Why this person?Relative age?Profile or front?
Cameo?
Facial features ?
Clothing?
Hair? Jewellery?
Effective questioning is key to good storytelling
• Focused
• Short & Simple
• 2nd order
“teach how to observe and
how to ask questions:
questions are the tools of observation”
• Focused
• Short & Simple
• 2nd order
Effective questioning is key to good storytelling
• Focused
• Short & Simple
• 2nd order
Effective questioning is key to good storytelling
• Focused
• Short & Simple
• 2nd order
Why did you bring this?How did you get it?What did you do?
What did you like?Why did you do that?
How did you learn this?How do you fit in the
group?
“many short rather than few long”
“ask, ask, and ask again”
Effective questioning is key to good storytelling
• Focused
• Short & Simple
• 2nd order
Why do you like hiking?
“I enjoy being outdoors”
What do you like about the outdoors?
What draws you to the peace and quiet?
“the peace and quiet”
“I like to get out and think.”
Effective questioning is key to good storytelling
• Genuine curiosity
• Use simple “natural” questions as much as possible in the language of the client
• Maintain a “natural” flow, linking new questions to what the client has already said
• A dynamic process; there is no “master list”
• Maintain a large “toolkit” full of a wide-range of questions which can be adapted to each situation
Effective Questioning: Keys
Effective Questioning: General Order
1. General
2. Focused
3. Directed
The 6 Ws+• Who? : people and their relationships
• What? : actions, events, experiences
• Why? : motives, values, reasons, purposes
• When? : time, sequences, duration (how long?)
• Where? : locations, places, relationships, journeys
• So What? : implications, results, meanings
&
• How? : means, manner, method
Effective Questioning: Types of Questions
The Art of Focused Conversation, 4 levels of questions
• objective: facts, external reality
• reflective: internal personal responses to external realities, e.g. emotions, feelings, hidden images or associations
• interpretive: draw out meanings, values, significance, implications
• decisional: elicit resolution
Effective Questioning: Types of Questions
Solution-focused vs problem-focused questions
• identify strengths
• identify coping strategies
• emphasize possible changes
• suggest possible solutions
Effective Questioning: Types of Questions
Exception-finding questions
• shift from generalities to exceptions
• Are there times when this is not so?
• Have you ever coped with this in other circumstances?
Effective Questioning: Types of Questions
Theory-testing questions• evidence (confirming & exceptions)• development (when first? how long?
how has it changed over time?)• perspective of others (“fly on the wall”)
Effective Questioning: Types of Questions
Scaling questions
• general - How are you feeling?
• specific - Where would you be along this line? Where were you last week? What has changed?
Miracle question
Effective Questioning: Types of Questions
My Career Circle
VALUES
Values:• What are they?
• Things that are important to me• Core belief systems
• What do they do?
• guide life choices
• motivate
1. From which of these circles do
values come from?
Values
2. How?
3. Consistent?
4. Impact of conflicting values?
compromised motivation and
decision making
independence The Real Meaccomplishments
peace
learningmusiccompetence
reaching goalsclothes
purposemovieschallenge
self-expression
gardenjusticeworkpoliticsfinding a spouse
being accepted
world peace
Values Clutter
healthsuccess
family
freedompersonal growth car
sex
image
funself-
actualization
sportsfriends
security
power
safetysecurity
recognitionhobbiesmobility
variety
travel
creativity
problem solving
food
pleasure
pension
interestsTV
saving
church
Values
2
5
7
10
11
12
1
3
6
8
9
12
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6 9
12
1. identify
2. choose
CommunityValue
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IndividualValue
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2 lists of potential conflicting values
My Career Circle
BALANCE
Balance
Which area is the closest to being “just right” for you at this time?
Balance
How does this area affect “employment” and “unemployment”?
If someone has too much?,too little?, just right?
Which area is the closest to being “just right” for you at this time?
Balance
others’ feedback
personal reflection
Guiding Circles: Expanding the Circle
• Strengths of traditional action planning• starts where the client is at• sets a clear goal or direction• provides clear steps
Traditional Action PlanningGOAL
12
34
Traditional Action PlanningGOAL
12
34
• Weakness of traditional action planning• assumes you can see far enough
to set the best goal• assumes you can control life’s events• assumes client is alone• linear
Real-life Action PlanningGOAL
12
34
FINALGOAL?
many twists & turns on the
uncertain pathof life
crossroads
others on the path
Stepping Stones 1. vision
2. decision
3. action
What decisions will
need to be made?
Important to action plan
—just as importantto decision plan
What actions will
need to be made?
Real-life Action PlanningGOAL
12
34
FINALGOAL?
many twists & turns on the
uncertain pathof life
crossroads
others on the path
Guiding Circles: The Journey Continues
• Mattering
• Backswing
• Career Craft
• Wholistic life/career counselling
• Identity clarified through 2 key circles
• Values and Life Balance
• Expanding the Circle
• Creative Decision/Action Planning
Key Themes of Guiding Circles
• One thing I will take away from this workshop.
• One thing I am going to do after this workshop.
Guiding Circles