Stop – breathe – feel – be: Self-care for career professionals
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like they are sometimes spinning out of control? Sure, we keep up a good front, but inside we sift through our...
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Growing food, growing futures: Gardengate program shows power of purpose
A sense of purpose can improve your mental health. Purpose can help with motivation, confidence, inter-personal skills, time management, presentation and problem solving. Purpose can help you work harder or...
3 strategies to improve mental well-being at work
Over the past few months, many of us have experienced significant change. This ever-evolving yet constant state is compounded by a steep learning curve while we adjust to working remotely...
Book review: Strengthening Mental Health Through Career Effective Development
This review was originally published in the Australian Centre for Career Education’s CEAV E-Journal in spring 2020. With Strengthening Mental Health Through Career Effective Development, authors Dave Redekopp and Michael...
Career development and mental health: How can I practise ethically?
Career practitioners can help generate positive mental health outcomes for clients without overstepping professional boundaries....
How career development is also a mental health practice
Mental health and mental illness are distinct entities, and knowing about and understanding this difference allows career development practitioners to better conceptualize and practice a dimension of mental health awareness...
Review: Mental health guide a must-have for career practitioners
Strengthening Mental Health Through Career Development is one of the most promising and encouraging works to come into the field of career development in a very long time. This work...
The impact of co-existing health conditions on life and work
It should have been a day like any other. But when George McKenzie, then 21, woke up, something didn’t feel right. “My tongue was all cottony and I actually wondered...
CERIC launches new guide for practitioners on career development and mental health
Strengthening Mental Health Through Effective Career Development: A Practitioner’s Guide enables practitioners to connect career development services with clients’ mental health concerns while working ethically and inside the boundaries of their...
Dear career professional: A self-care letter from your subconscious
Michelle Precourt and Wayne Pagani will be presenting at CERIC's Cannexus20 National Career Development Conference on “Yoga & You: Elevate Yourself and Your Clients.” They will share insights on how...