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Life Designing for Career Construction

Kevin Glavin keynote Colorado

Gain Clarity, Control, Direction, & Purpose

WHAT WE DO

We teach career practitioners how to utilize narrative psychology and storytelling interventions such as the Career Construction Interview (CCI) to assist their clients in achieving clarity, control, direction, confidence, and purpose. Our training combines advanced technology with hands-on supervised practicum experiences to help you move swiftly and seamlessly from theory to practice.

We assist clients in navigating and resolving complex career and life transitions and challenges that cannot be addressed through traditional career theories and techniques. Utilizing post-modern career interventions, we focus on harnessing the power of personal narratives to design and re-design oneself in today’s ever-changing job market. We teach individuals how to construct, narrate and communicate their own unique story, resulting in a new narrative that can be used to navigate current career and life challenges, transitions and pave the way to design the life they desire. The techniques our clients learn can be applied to future career and life challenges as well.

YOUR STORY AS A PICTURE
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HOW WE DO IT

We use narrative psychology and storytelling techniques to help individuals, explore, define, and implement their career related needs, values, interests, and aspirations. We have extensive training and experience in using qualitative assessments such as the Career Construction Interview to help individuals explore who they are, where they have been, and where they are going.

In today’s fast-paced job market, effectively communicating your skills and personal narrative is essential for success. Building a unique personal brand that showcases your talents and abilities allows you to effectively market yourself to potential employers, customers, and clients.

WHO WE ARE

Create Your Why offers professional career coaching, guidance, and training to assist individuals in making informed career and life decisions, navigating transitions, and overcoming challenges. Led by Dr. Kevin Glavin, a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 20 years of experience in career counseling, guidance, and development. Dr. Glavin has a wealth of experience working with a diverse range of organizations such as Saudi Aramco, NASA, Singapore Ministry of Manpower, Japanese Institute of Career Development, Australian Catholic University, and the University of Colorado Boulder. He has held leadership positions such as the President of the Ohio Career Development Association and Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Employment Counseling

MEET OUR FOUNDER - KEVIN GLAVIN

Dr. Kevin Glavin, a leading expert in career counseling, imparts his knowledge as a professor at Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA. He holds a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision, and additional degrees in Business Information Technology, Math, and Economics. Reach out to Dr. Glavin at kevin@createyourwhy.com to discover how he can support you as you navigate the ever-evolving and unpredictable job market of the 21st century.

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WHO WE WORK WITH

Many career practitioners follow a similar approach, assessing an individual’s Values, Interests, Personality, and Strengths (VIPS), then setting goals and creating action plans. However, they often overlook the crucial element that sets an individual apart, makes them unique and memorable, and that is their personal narrative. Your story has the power to inspire and influence others. As Maya Angelou said, “People may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” Stories make people feel. Unlock the power of your story and discover your unique narrative.

 

Identify your strengths, interests, passion, motivation, story, and purpose

TESTIMONIALS

Kevin – A Career Construction thought leader. Thanks for all you have taught me.
Mark Savickas
Mark SavickasProfessor Emeritus (Department of Family and Community Medicine) and Chair Emeritus (Department of Behavioral Sciences) at the Northeast Ohio Medical University.
NCDA is privileged to have Kevin as a keynote speaker and workshop presenter for various association events. His relevant knowledge, engaging personality, and charismatic nature make him a perfect presenter for our career development practitioners and researchers. I highly recommend Kevin as a leading professional in the career development industry.
Deneen Pennington
Deneen Pennington Executive Director National Career Development Association
WSG is privileged to have Kevin as our Principal Trainer for Career Construction Training in 2018. Having trained 12 of our Career Practitioners and Practice Leaders, he demonstrated strong practice and expertise in his career development domain. His training methodology, personality and nature makes him a perfect presenter and trainer for career practitioners. We highly recommend Kevin as the leading professional trainer for the career development industry and Career Construction and Life-Design training.
Jeremiah Wong
Jeremiah WongCareer Practitioner Capability & Professional Development (Senior Manager) - Workforce Singapore
We recommend Dr. Kevin Glavin as a speaker and a trainer for Life Designing for Career Construction. Dr. Kevin Glavin was invited by the Japan Industrial Counseling Association in September 2016 to deliver lectures and conduct live demonstrations of the Career Construction Interview at Rissho University, Tokyo. We have since published these demonstrations and lectures in the book: "From Introduction to Practice of Life Design Counseling." This book, and its teaching, are widely read by Japanese career Counselors.
Shujiro Mizuno
Shujiro MizunoDoctor of Education, Former Director, Japan Industrial Counseling Society, President of Japan Peer Mediation Society
Thank you!!! Thank you!!! At first glance the evaluations looked incredible. People’s feedback on you, the presentation and the Life Designing model and Career Construction Interview were outstanding. Everyone at work is buzzing with excitement and talking about the model’s potential usefulness with our students.
Linda Brandt, Psy.D.
Linda Brandt, Psy.D.Counselor/Professor Moraine Valley Community College
This class changed my life! The digital story telling component of the class was such a profound exercise, and I truly appreciated the opportunity to explore my story and likewise provide the space for others to do the same. I learned so much about myself.
Workshop Participant
Workshop Participant
Our brains are hard wired to tell and listen to stories, a legacy from the time when there was only the verbal word to pass down traditions until the invention of the written word. The Career Construction Interview is like setting a caged bird free and for many people, the first time to hear their own stories in their own words in their own voice.
Workshop Participant
Workshop Participant
Magical day. As we watch and listen to stories after stories from each other, we also took the time to engage, question, probe and reflect content and feelings to each other. The last day had us focus on our micro-skills, which is the formative and fundamentally important for any coaching or counselling session. Kevin led us to into multiple digital storytelling and gave space for us to the share our stories and had the class flex their micro-skills muscles to derive our career themes. It is also a session where we got to know our colleagues a lot better - from their career direction and themes, contents, motivations, and what made them who they are today. I look forward to deploying these to help my clients.
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