CCDA presents
Navigating Career Wellness: Mental Health, Trauma and Work-Life Balance
Join the Colorado Career Development Association for an enriching professional development experience focused on supporting career wellness. Together, we’ll explore the impact of trauma and toxic workplace environments on career development, while learning practical, trauma-informed techniques to better assist clients. Additionally, we’ll dive into strategies for fostering work-life balance, both for ourselves and those we serve, through interactive sessions and collaborative discussions with fellow professionals. This event offers tools and insights to bring back and apply to your own work, enhancing well-being for all.
*Attendees who are present for the entirety of the event will be eligible for 5.5 hours of continuing education credits granted by the National Career Development Association (NCDA).
Morning Keynote & Workshop:
Understanding Career Trauma & It's Impact
Work not only provides for our basic needs through our paycheck, it provides us purpose and meaning. What happens when our workplace becomes toxic, harmful or even abusive? Or when we label boundaries as ‘quiet quitting’? Career-based trauma impacts all types of individuals, and it’s crucial we work with clients at the intersection of career development and trauma-informed care. This interactive workshop will provide an overview of trauma, career trauma, tangible techniques to use with clients, and understand how we can support our clients and even ourselves as workers.
Speaker Bio:
Amanda Chenkin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado and Maryland and a certified career counselor (CCC); she has been in the career development field for 20 years. The last eight years have been focused on career counseling, specifically working with clients who are exploring who they are and how they want to author their story. Amanda walks alongside clients who examine and process the internal and external stories and systems that have kept them from living unapologetically. She is an active member of the American Counseling Association (ACA) and the National Career Development Association (NCDA). She is in private practice and owner of Choice Career Counseling based in Baltimore, MD.
Rae Stout has over 10 years of experience in identity formation, career counseling and trauma, particularly in the field of career trauma. She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in the state of Colorado and a certified career counselor (CCC). As a therapist, she works with clients to explore who they are, as they untangle their authentic parts of self from internalized shame and societal pressures in order to step into their own self-authored story. Rae also has over 8 years of experience leading teams and organizations through conflict and team development. She is an active member of the American Counseling Association (ACA), the National Career Development Association (NCDA), an adjunct professor of counseling at the University of Colorado and serves as the Director of Clinical Operations at iAmClinic, a premiere counseling practice centered around serving the needs of the LGBTQIIA+ population.
Afternoon Keynote:
Clarify Your Work-Life Balance Priorities So You Can Help Others Do The Same
Most of us got into the career development field because we want to help others build satisfying and healthy careers and lives. But to effectively help those we serve, we must also take care of ourselves by nurturing our own career development and work-life balance needs.
Join Certified Career Counselor, Anush Hansen, for an engaging, highly interactive session in which you’ll sort out your priorities using a holistic Work-Life Balance Assessment card sort tool, come up with a plan for building your priorities into your life, and participate in powerful discussions about what it means to take care of yourself as you take care of others. Through this activity you will also learn strategies for administering the Work-Life Balance Assessment with your clients and/or employees to help them build what matters most to them into their lives.
Learning Objectives:
After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
1. Conceptualize work-life balance within the framework of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness,
2. Understand how to administer the Work-Life Balance Assessment, and
3. Identify their own work-life balance priorities.
Speaker Bio:
Anush Hansen is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Career Counselor, and the owner of Kennebunk Career & Wellness Counseling, where she helps clients explore and build meaningful and fulfilling careers. Anush is also the owner of Balanced Card Sorts and the creator of the Work-Life Balance Assessment, the Student Wellness Card Sort, and the Career Values Card Sort. She also developed and maintains the Career Counseling Connection Online Directory, which helps connect career service providers with new clients.
Anush holds a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and a master’s in Public Health. Prior to her work as a counselor, Anush worked for 17 years as a public health researcher on numerous physical activity, nutrition, cancer screening, environmental health, substance abuse prevention, and other health promotion projects. It is Anush’s background in health promotion, mental health, and public health that fuels her commitment to using a holistic, wellness-centered approach when working with clients, and that helped to shape the mission of Balanced Card Sorts.
Registration Details:
Early-bird pricing will be available until October 4th, at which point regular pricing will open and be accessible until the day of the event, October 25th.
Should you have any questions about registration, feel free to contact CCDA's Registration Chair, Cydney Hughes, at cocareeracademy@gmail.com.
If your question is about membership, please reach out to CCDA's Membership Chair, Jessica Francis, at mansurjc@gmail.com.
