Career Development
Deanne is a Certified Career Development Practitioner and has trained in Solution Focused counseling, arts-infused learning and adult education principles. Deanne has facilitated programs and worked one on one with career shifters for over a decade and presented at conferences about innovative approaches to the career development process.
Often, the answers we seek lie behind well-asked questions…
Mapping a realistic career plan will take into consideration the full story and include questions of wellness, prosperity and life balance. The answers will create the solid foundation needed to grow your passions and clarify and respond to needs at different ages and stages. Old stories may need to be archived in order to grow new ones – ones that will draw on informed decision-making, increased self-esteem and measurable outcomes. Effective ways to sustain change are through active participation in the events in your life, belief in your ability to choose, and investment in some self inquiry.
Together, we’ll develop career plans, use assessment tools and provoke these questions:
What are my goals and inspirations? How can I interface my story in terms of where I have been and where I am going? What are my skills and abilities, opportunities and obstacles to achieving my desires? How can I best utilize career laddering, exploration and build out a solid, innovative portfolio? What about navigating career, love, family and emotional uncertainties amidst change?
We will also draw on tools of visual arts and non-verbal storytelling to enhance the discussion with possibility and creativity in the form of collage, art made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole and new media art, a genre that encompasses artworks created with technologies, resulting in cultural objects or social events and allowing for activism through the interactive nature of the media.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~ E.M. Forster
What others have said:
Deanne is a skilled facilitator and career practitioner. I am consistently energized and inspired when interacting with her. Having been a co-worker and co-facilitator, as well as a workshop participant, I find Deanne to be engaging, insightful, respectful, funny and very knowledgeable. ~ S. Stelter, BSW, BA, Career Counsellor/Facilitator
It was such a joy to work with Deanne in delivering career decision-making programs. She has a creative energy that is contagious! Her skill as a facilitator is unparalleled; she connects with people easily and naturally. Our clients left her workshops feeling hopeful, and with a stronger sense of their value and ability as individuals. ~ J. Nuttall, Employment Counselor, Vision21 Consulting
Presenting at a Teacher's Conference, Banff Centre, 2010
Bodywork for Personal Development
Deanne has extensive experience in energy-based care and is certified in Reiki (Usui), Zen Shiatsu, Therapeutic Touch and shamanic healing modalities in a practice that spans a dozen years. Her approach couples fluidly with narrative consultation, applying career theory and arts-integrated theory to produce solution focused results.
Our bodies hold memory, hold experience, even hold imagined experience. When we want to move, shift and transform or from time to time to get in touch with our potential, our creative force or a new direction, it can be a challenge to do on our own. I encourage the perspective of seeing with the eyes of the heart.
The desire is for a healthy balance and flow of ki or chi so that body and mind are connected and tuned in, better for coping with change and sustaining wellness.
What others have said:
Deanne has a powerful combination of skills: career counselling, bodywork and intuitive healing practices. She’s incredibly compassionate, offers no-nonsense practical advice backed by years of counselling experience, and the bodywork sessions I’ve had with her were profound. She was made for this. ~L. Jackson Vancouver, BC
Deanne has a talent for story ~ she can develop and craft stories, and she can help people draw out their inner stories, the stories that want to be told. This passion and respect for the art of storytelling is at the root of her diverse range of work experience. I’ve had the pleasure of taking personal development workshops with Deanne. As a workshop facilitator, she sees the best in each person, and leads us to discover the best in ourselves. She is creative, intuitive and a deep listener who can bring forth clear insights. ~ R. Harvey, Editor, Blogger
For more on methods, rates and an assesment please see Interface Healing Arts.
Deanne Esdale | 604-240-2410 | deanne@texturemedia.ca
