WORKSHOPS

Want to figure out what you want to be when you grow up?             

If so, then you are one of millions of people who aspire to know. This is your opportunity!

Live My Dream participants will

1.  Identify personal

• Interests
• Values
• Skills
• Personality Type Preference

2.  Perform a "Reality Check" 

• Determine your desired lifestyle and associated real-life costs to help you narrow down your career goal.

3.  Consider knowledge gained from your Strong Interest Inventory as well as from your values assessments as we brainstorm potential occupations of interest.

4.  Reflect on insights from personality, interest, values, and skills assessments and your thoughts in class as well as what you already know about yourself, conduct occupational research, and narrow-down occupations of interest to approximately three choices

5.  Discuss  the Mental Component in achieving goals

6.  Write your Career Mission Statement and/or "Write Your Life"

7.  Create a Career Action Plan

8.  Learn how to set-up an informational interview, what to ask during an informational interview & practice

9.  Conduct at least one informational interview prior to our follow-up Group Coaching Session

Leave feeling more confident and clear about who you are and what you truly want!  You'll also learn the "formula" for choosing a career.  As you live your life and manage your career, if you want to pivot, you'll know how and what to assess when making decisions.

Assessments

Strong Interest Inventory, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Step II, Skills & Values assessments

Learn, Practice & Conduct

Informational Interview(s) 

Includes 

• 2 Five-hour Workshops
• 1 Group Coaching Session
• 23 page Strong Interest Inventory Interpretive Report
• MBTI Step II Interpretive Report, an individualized approach to the MBTI
• All assessments will be reviewed by the  instructor/career coach
• The Key to Happiness ~ A Career & Life Planning Guide to Unlock Your Life Passion and Live It
• All materials

Location  

Encinitas Community Center

1140 Oakcrest Park Drive

Encinitas, CA 92024

Dates and Time

April 27 AND May 4, 2025 from 12:00pm -5:00pm

AND June 8, 2025 from 2:00pm-4:00pm

For more information and to register

Email your name and phone number to CareerDirection4Me@gmail.com with "Live My Dream" in the subject line and we will contact you.

Requirements

• Must be at least 14 in order to take the assessments
• Students must want to attend this course
• Participants need to complete most online assessments one week prior to the course start date

"As a mother, I am grateful that both my son and daughter worked with DeeDee as a Career Counselor and Coach. Both were uncertain about their college and career paths. DeeDee's guidance helped them gain clarity, self-awareness, and direction. Our daughter completed both her BS and Masters in Social Work in just five years, saving time and money. Our son, who had considered the military, shifted his career path to become a Firefighter and Paramedic after working with DeeDee. Her expertise and care provided valuable insights that helped my family avoid unnecessary time and financial costs. I highly recommend DeeDee for anyone looking for clarity and career direction."

~Vicky Brown

Registration is open until 11:59pm on April 16, 2025

Space is limited!

Gain greater self-insight and confidence through debriefing personality, values, interests, and skills assessments.  Learn the mental component in achieving your goals. Apply informational interviewing strategies. Create an action plan to determine your career goal/your life's purpose/your passion.  One group coaching session is included approximately one month following the end of the workshop to support you in achieving your goals.                                                 

Assessments you will take and we will debrief how they apply to you:                            

• MBTI, Step II                                      
• Strong Interest Inventory                    
• Values                                           
• Skills                                                     

Book: The Key to Happiness

Post-workshop                                   

• 1 Group Coaching Session 

Discover your personality type and what it means to you in life and work through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Step II. Understand the personality types of others. Enhance communication in work and life.

Assessment:  MBTI, Step II

The MBTI Step II is an individualized assessment for understanding personality type preferences.

Personality Insight Workshop +

Team preferences are identified and leveraged to maximize team dynamics and outcome.                              

Assessment:  MBTI Step II

The MBTI Step II is an individualized assessment for understanding personality type preferences.

Identify/learn/confirm your true values and interests.   Debrief the Strong Interest Inventory, values assessments, and learn an effective decision-making technique.  

Brainstorm occupations of choice/info from the Strong Interest Inventory.  Leave w/a 23 page interest report and prepared to conduct occupational research and informational interviewing as you determine your desired career goal.        

Pre-workshop assessments

• Strong Interest Inventory
• Values

Post-workshop                                     

•  2 individual Career Coaching sessions

Personality Insight Workshop +

Understand, value and appreciate personality type, how it affects your family dynamics, and the gifts each family member brings to your inner circle.     

Assessment:  MBTI, Step II

Debrief  personality, values, interests, and skills assessments and gain greater self-insight and confidence in who you are and your natural gifts, skills, ability, an interests.  Learn the mental component in achieving your goals.  Apply informational interviewing strategies.  Leave with an action plan to determine your career goal...your life passion...your purpose.                                                                   

Receive two coaching sessions to support  you as you determine your career.                                                 

Post-workshop                                       

• 1 Group Coaching Session

Strengths and talents assist us achieve what we  want in life. Debrief Strength Finders/Clifton Strengths.                         

Explore how to leverage your strengths in your career and life to optimize the life you desire.                                              

Assessment   

Strengths Finders/Clifton      Strengths                                              

Resilience is a mindset.  It's the ability to bounce in step with flow. . . To respond to challenge and change with grace all the while staying intact.

Learn your personal resilience characteristics and how to apply them in your life to increase your well-being,  life-balance  and resilience.                          

Explore strategies, unique to you, that you can use to prevent burnout and increase your resilience in the face of adversity.                       

Assessment

Personal Resilience Profile                        

Values are at the core of who we are .  .  .    

Living in alignment with those values helps us lead happy and fulfilled lives.    

Consider and identify your true values and walk away with a plan to apply how to use that information when making decisions in order to live in alignment with your values. 

Assessment:  Values                               

Prepare for your vision of the future with confidence! 

This fun 1.5 hour workshop assists individuals with preparing to do their best at interviews.  It includes how to answer FAQs, and best practices for answering questions. We'll practice via role-playing engage mental rehearsal.                           

Book: The Key to Happiness