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4/2 Workshop-Exploring Your Passion
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Workshop: Exploring Your Passion—Putting it to Work
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 9 AM-4 PM
Temple Chai, 4645 E. Marilyn Road, Phoenix, AZ 85032-4839
Job seekers often limit themselves to what they “have always done” because it was the career that defined them for many years. They tend to lose sight of their many gifts, interests, strengths, and wealth of skills they developed through their life experience. This workshop utilizes proven tools to help individuals identify their strengths, talents and preferences – what they’re basically good at and really enjoy doing! It can prove to be useful in opening up job search options.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES: To explore individual desires, strengths, and talents in order to create a vision fueled by passion. Identify a potential “stuckness”. Utilize different tools and approaches to identify patterns in our life.
INQUIRY: Is identifying job titles that fit particular strengths the objective?
RESPONSE: In conversation, we shorten the workshop title and refer to it as the “Passions” workshop. The actual title is Exploring Your Passion – the key word being exploring. This isn’t something you get done in a day. From the feedback received from previous participants it raises new questions and gets people to think and look at the next phase of their life in a different way. This is work that requires thought, reflection, trial and error and honestly, sometimes, just dumb luck!! Identifying job titles that fit particular strengths is not the objective for this workshop.
Workshop fee: $25 is not refundable.
Materials provided: A workbook and “People Patterns” book by Stephen Montgomery.
Dress is casual, and part of the day can be spent outdoors, if desired.
Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/300026387/emailinvite/?invite=MTE4NTM2L2thdG
Lunch: Participants are encouraged to bring lunch rather than take time going out for food during the mid-day break. Lunches can be stored in the Temple Chai refrigerator. You will also have access to a microwave. Water will be provided.
Facilitator: Maria Wojtczak developed and has presented this workshop for SJN members many times over the last six years. We continue to hear from participants who share how taking the workshop made a real impact in their career and life decisions.
Maria has over 20 years of organization development experience working with a wide range of organizations. In addition to the use of traditional organization development techniques, she is highly skilled in large systems change and organization learning, with formal training in both specialties. She has extensive experience and expertise in the design and facilitation of interventions at all levels and sizes of organizations. Maria is especially adept at coaching senior leadership and has consulted in this capacity with senior executives of large automotive business units, high level education personnel, and senior personnel in other organizations. Maria has always focused on the development of individuals within organizations in order to help them achieve their greatest potential. Maria is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a partner in Power of ONE Consulting. Maria is an Owner of DrivingMBA, a combination of state of the art technology and experiential learning program that provides a safe environment for drivers of all ages to develop good driving habits and better defensive driving and decision-making skills.
SJN is also proud of the fact that Maria Wojtczak has served our organization as a founding Board Member and continues as a significant contributor to the SJN Curriculum on the Job Search Process.
