Lifestyle Assessment Workshops
Unless otherwise noted, all workshops will be at the Center. Your registration is complete upon the receipt of payment to the Center for Life Decisions, 3121 East Madison, Suite 209, Seattle, WA 98112. Timely payment is the only way to guarantee your registration and space for your desired workshop(s) and avoid last minute cancellations of workshops.
To view the Calendar of Workshops and Seminars, click here.
To register for a Workshop or Seminar, click here.
Please inquire about workshops of interest, even if they are not currently scheduled. They will be provided on a demand/as needed basis. Call The Center (206-325-9093) to register and have your name placed on a waiting list.
Alternative Work Schedules: Balancing and Negotiating Work Options: Developing Your Personal Plan
Explore the growing movement to shorten working hours, learn about the variety of options and develop a personal strategy to implement at your work site. Call for information.
Length:
2 1/2 hours
Cost: $39
Preregistration and prepayment required.
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093,
or click here
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Baby Boomers and the 21st Century: Managing Work and Love
Boomers
face all the same concerns as the rest of us, except that midlife casts
these concerns in a unique light, and boomers view midlife through their
own unique historical lens. Participants take an inventory of their
present concerns through a self-reflection process focused upon questions
about midlife. A wealth of resources will be offered to address
identified concerns.
FREE workshop. Call for information.
Location: Center
for Life Decisions
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00 PM
FREE
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093, or click
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Career Alternatives for Educators
Whether you are a classroom teacher in a public or private school, or an instructor at a community college, trade school, adult education facility or university, learn about the many options available both within and outside education. Discover how to work through the stages of career exploration, change and transition. Assess your current skills, your reasons for leaving your current position and what you're really looking for. Learn tools to help you find a position, market your skills, and present yourself in new ways.
Location:
Discover U
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Cost: $35.00 + $3 For Materials
To Register: Call Discover U at 206-365-0400, mention registration #BS248G
or click here
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Career Planning for Retirement: Negotiating Your Dreams
This
fast-paced presentation has participants reflecting on their definitions
of success and retirement while learning the basics of career planning
and salary negotiation through short readings and presentations, small
group discussions and individual reflections. Participants will
set beginning goals navigating the last major part of their working lives.
FREE workshop. Call for information.
Location: Center
for Life Decisions
Monday Time: 7:00pm - 8:00 PM
FREE
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093, or click
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Want to share conversation and tea, hospitality and good food with others? Join host, Larry Gaffin, Tuesday evenings at the Madison Park Starbucks, 4000 E. Madison St. Larry's hosting of the Café is part of a larger effort. To find out more about this, link to www.conversationcafe.org. The July/ August 2003 issue of the UTNE Reader, pages 60-61, has a nice article about the Café’s, and a photo of yours truly. To avoid some confusion, I’m listing my hosting of the Café at Starbucks on my Center website, but the issues we address are only indirectly, tangentially and occasionally career related. They have focused on such things as community, the Enron scandal, the environment, mental health, life purpose, trust, patriotism, privacy and civil rights, our fears, 9/11, the Middle East,.......... Call the Center at 206-325-9093 if you're curious to know the "topic of the week". Otherwise, just show up. Hoping to see you there.
Location:
Starbucks, in Madison Park, 4000 E. Madison Street
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
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Dreams: Doorway to Greater Healing and Wholeness
Imagery and symbol are the language of dreams. By learning that language, and by listening to our dreams, we can increase our self-understanding and become more open and honest in our relationships with others. Healing implies bringing the many parts of our divided selves together, welcoming what God has made us to be and to become. Dream work is an important part of this process and of learning to live more fully and effectively.
Location:
Center for Life Decisions
Time: March 12, 19, 26 Wednesdays 6-9pm
Cost: $99
Call the Center at 206-325-9093
for information, or click here
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Dreams, Images and Stories: The Making of a Life
Day and nighttime dreams, visions, and the stories that make up the fabric of our lives are the catalysts we need to propel us into our future. We'll spend the day interpreting dreams, mining our life's experiences and identifying the images that sustain and beckon us – all with a focus toward defining who we are striving to more authentically and intentionally become. Seattle career counselor, photographer, and social activist, Larry Gaffin, will use a variety of media and resources to direct our multiple intelligences toward the "what next" of our lives.
Location:
Bellevue Community College
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Cost: $109.00
To Register:
Call the College at 425-564-2263
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Make a positive difference in the world while you make a living. You needn't be a biologist or hydrogeologist to do important work for out environment. Discuss where to look for technical, non-technical entry level and professional jobs in the public and private sectors. Find out where most of the money is to be made in the environmental field, what types of entry level jobs can lead to more challenging positions and also discover the creative ways to market yourself to employers. Call for information.
Location: Discover
U
Time: 6:30 - 9:30pm
Cost: $39.00 + $3 Materials Fee
To Register: Call the Center at 206-365-0400, or click
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50 Ideas for Integrating Spirituality into the Workplace
This unique workshop was well received at the California Career Conference and is about bringing your whole self to work and not leaving your spirituality and emotions at home or checking them at the door when you enter the workplace. It is about clarifying your understanding of how overt/covert, sensitive/insensitive, legal/illegal you might be when conveying your beliefs and opinions at work.
The Center would be glad to provide this as a 2–4 hour workshop for your church, clergy gathering, denominational conference, organization or business.
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"Work is a search for daily meaning and daily bread," said Studs Terkel in his classic, Working. Work must nourish the soul and spirit as does food the body. Yet, for too many, work is little more than a paycheck and far too stressful for balance. This class will explore jobs with meaning and for money, careers that are good for both us and the environment, futures that help promote for generations to come the values and work of the volunteer organization Sustainable Seattle. It’s for those who want to better merge, rather than submerge, their personal and professional values with those of their company or organization. Find out about companies and organizations that are on the forefront of this worker trend. Explore the personal, social and environmental impacts of career choices. Discuss the age-old desire for obtaining more meaning from our work while also trying to bring more money home. Debate the three basic principles defining good work.
Location: PCC,
1810 -12th Ave. NW, Issaquah
Or: 4201 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Cost: $40 members/$50 nonmembers
To Register: Call PCC at 206-547-1222, or click
here
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Living Well While Living Simply
Seattle has become a center for people intentionally deciding to redefine success on their own, rather than the culture's, terms. These people have chosen to stop following the culture's messages to consume more and to increase the pace of one's life. Find out why and how some people are deciding to get out of the rat race, and enjoy work and life more. Explore ways of defining your real values and find a better balance and meaning between work and family. Learn how life can be richer by choosing to live more simply, and learn how you can do it.
Location:
Bellevue Community College
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Cost: $109.00
To Register:
Call the College at 425-564-2263
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Managing the Agony and Ecstasy of Transition After 50
Take a personal inventory of your present situation, learn tools for dealing with change and find out about resources to assist in your unique transition. Call for information.
Length:
2 1/2 hours
Cost: $39
Preregistration and prepayment required.
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093, or click
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Mentoring in a Time of Economic and Workplace Transition
Learn about the 5 major career transition times when mentors are needed, learn about the 6 areas of concern for those seeking a mentor, develop a personalized script for approaching a potential mentor and gain information about the mentoring function of mid-career internships. Call for information.
Length:
2 1/2 hours
Cost: $39
Preregistration and prepayment required.
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093,
or click here
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This three-day workshop is for professional church workers and will again be held in Seattle. Consultation to Clergy is the sponsor. For information and to register, write Consultation to Clergy, 911 Stewart St., Seattle, WA 98101.
Location: Consultation
to Clergy, Seattle
Cost: Approximately $250.00
To Register: Call 206-623-8193, or click here
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Explore the many careers available with nonprofit agencies. Evaluate which ones fit your values and career path. Find out how to research jobs that provide money as well as meaning, and receive valuable resource information on nonprofit careers in the Seattle area. The instructor, Larry Gaffin, is a career counselor with two decades of experience working with and for a wide range of nonprofit organizations. He has recently published his survey of what 20 HR’s in the nonprofit sector are looking for in resumes and interviews.
Time: 6:30pm
- 9:30pm
Cost: $39.00
To Register:
Call BCC at 206-325-9093, or click here
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Responding to the Soul’s Calling in a High Stress Work Environment
"Work is a search for daily meaning and daily bread," said Studs Terkel in his classic, Working. Work must nourish the soul and spirit as does food the body. Yet for too many work is little more than a paycheck and far too stressful for balance. This workshop will assist you in defining the balance between what you feel called to do and what you are doing; between meaning and money; and regarding jobs that are good for you while also good for your family, clients, customers, community and environment. Call for information.
Length:
2 1/2 hours
Cost: $39
Preregistration and prepayment required.
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093,
or click here
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The Spirituality of Work: Healing the World One Person and Job at a Time
The spirituality of work. Some call it heartwork, following your bliss, finding a path with heart, working with passion, working from the heart, finding your life mission.
Workers need and want more than a paycheck from their jobs. More and more people want work that is also personally rewarding, socially and environmentally responsible, and does not promote family disintegration at the cost of career success. They want work that balances personal with professional values, creates right livelihood, and integrates their minds, bodies, and spirits.
The format for this seminar will be relaxed, quiet, and meditative. The content will be both philosophical and pragmatic. The process will be designed for both those seeking a career and life change as well as those needing renewed perspective and support on a current career path of meaning and fulfillment.
The workshop will weave together short presentations with readings, small group discussions and support, reflection time, music, videos, guided imagery, art, and journal work. The workshop’s focus will be to assist participants in finding that unifying purpose or vision which provides clearer, stronger and deeper focus upon that career and life path each is uniquely called to follow.
The format and methodology will be congenial to any spiritual or religious persuasion. Call for information.
Location: Center
for Life Decisions
Time: Feb 12, 19, 26 Wednesdays 7-9pm
Cost: $85
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093, or click
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Teaching Career Development to Your Child
If you are a parent,
there is no more important role you will ever undertake than raising a
child. The pivotal role you play in their developing years is the
central influence. This workshop overview provides ideas, perspective
and appropriate resources for assisting your child at each age and developmental
stage in their career exploration.
"I know of nothing else like your program in Seattle. Thank
you for being there." - Parent
FREE workshop.
Call for information.
Location:
Center for Life Decisions
Time: 7:00pm
- 8:00 PM
FREE
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093, or click
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Ten Steps to Career Bliss and Workplace Nirvana
These are the most important and most often overlooked steps needed by every successful job seeker. Take an inventory measuring your accomplishment in each of the ten areas. Come gain fresh insights into these steps and develop a personal action plan leading to your workplace success. Call for information.
Length:
2 1/2 hours
Cost: $39
Preregistration and prepayment required.
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093,
or click here
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The Last Epidemic: The Medical Consequences of Nuclear War
Are You Prepared?
Are We Prepared?
Is It Possible To Be Prepared?
Both terrorists and
the Bush Administration are again threatening
the planet with nuclear nightmare. Come see the award-winning
video about the likely consequences of using nuclear weapons.
Poignantly enough, Seattle is used as the teaching example. We’ll
then discuss hopeful alternatives to what appears to be an
increasing willingness by our National leaders to open this nuclear
pandora’s box.
Location: Center
For Life Decisions
Date: August 1st, Thursday
Time: 7-8:30pm
Cost: Donations Accepted
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