Career Choice
This is a 10 week group designed to help people who are thinking about changing careers, in the process of a job change, or simply unhappy in their current occupation. The group will use guided discussion and exercises.
Topics include:
- Beyond the paycheck - figuring out what really matters.
What are your values, needs and goals? What are your priorities? What things must you have, and what things can you live without?
- Exploring your transferable skills and forgotten/hidden talents.
There's more to your transferable skills than just what you use at your current job.
- Assessing your career path
Where have you been, where are you going?
- Deciding whether to stay or go
Can you make this job/career work, and if not, then what?
- Choosing a job/career that's right for you
Generating a list of possible options, and making choices that match your wants and
needs. (You'll be surprised at the list the group will help you generate!)
- Braving the fear of change - discovering and overcoming your personal barriers
What's stopping you from going for what you want? What can you do to get past these barriers?
- Making a plan to get what you want - short and long term steps.
A plan that you can continue working on even after the group concludes.
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Career Choice groups begin regularly and meet from 7-9 pm, weekly for 10 weeks. The cost is $40 per week. Call or contact me for more information including start dates.
Coming Out: Support Groups For Women
This is a 10 week group for women who are exploring their sexual orientation as lesbian or bisexual. You'll have the chance to meet other women in the same situation and talk about the kinds of concerns and issues you face in this process. Topics are selected according to group interest but often include:
- How to know if you are lesbian or bisexual
- Coming out to friends and family
- Coming out at work - risks and benefits
- Meeting other lesbian and bisexual women
- Dating and relationships
- Sex and sexuality, safe sex issues
- Accessing the community and it's resources
- Homophobia
- Legal Issues
- Children
- Integrating your old life with your new
- Spirituality
- Lesbian culture
- and more!
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Coming Out Support Groups For Women begin regularly and meet from 7-9 pm, weekly, for 10 weeks. Please call or contact me for more information including start dates.
Fat Chance: Loving Your Life as a Woman of Size
A non-dieting support group for plus-size women.
It's not easy being large in a fat-hating world, but 95% of all diets fail and medical evidence suggests diets may actually endanger our health. In this 10-week group, you'll learn ways to improve your health without dieting. Reconnect to your body, improve your self-esteem, learn to love yourself just the way you are.
Topics Include:
- The truth about why diets don't work
Scientific and medical evidence that will surprise you
- Why it's not your fault you're fat
And why no one ever told you that before - the politics of fat-hating
- The pain of being fat in a fat hating world
Sharing our stories and pain with others who understand
- Healing from shame
Identifying and getting rid of the negative beliefs we've internalized
- New ways to improve your health by not dieting!
New research says it's absolutely possible to be fat and fit!
- Reconnecting to Your Body
Finding more loving ways to care for your body and exploring your relationship with food
- Learning to love yourself, just the way you are
Yes, it is possible!
- Finding support for this new way of thinking
Helping people who love you understand why their fat-phobia hurts you
- Living your life now, instead of waiting to lose weight
Reclaiming the parts of your life you put on hold.
- Into the world, fat, proud and loud!
Okay, the loud part is optional! Integrating new ways of loving yourself, new ways of thinking with your old life. And tips on handling situations in which your weight can be a challenge (doctors visits, chairs, airplanes, clothing, etc).
Fat Chance: Loving Your Life as a Woman of Size support groups start regularly and are open to all women size 18 +. Groups meet from 7-9 pm, weekly, for 10 weeks. $40 per week. Please call or contact me for more information including start dates. Please call me if you have accessibility concerns.
