Earn Your Certification As A Professional Résumé Writer

Schedule:
December 6, 7, and 14, 2007 – 9:30am – 4:00pm. Limited to 6 participants.
January 10, 17, and 31, 2008 - 9:30am – 4:00pm - Boston location.

There are myriad ways to communicate a client’s skills and expertise on a résumé and in a cover letter. And, one of the challenges that résumé writers face is how to strategically write and organize information within the context of the client’s career goal, present and past job responsibilities, success factors and competencies, organizational role, and level of seniority.

If you want to:

• establish or increase your credibility…
• gain recognition and visibility…
• hone your skills…
• and add a nationally-recognized credential to your expertise…

Join this 3-day study group to help you prepare for certification through the Professional Association of Résumé Writers (PARW).

This highly interactive program uses specific, hands-on application activities to build your skills and knowledge in all components of the PARW exam. Learning with a group of peers provides an added opportunity for you to view résumé writing challenges from diverse perspectives, build strategic thinking skills, and get feedback.

Focus areas include:

• making informed choices between four distinct résumé formats
• trends in career profiles/qualifications’ summaries
• choosing action words based on the client’s level of seniority and organizational role
• finding and using industry-specific key words for diverse occupations
• translating functions into results-focused statements
• cover letter strategy and guidelines
• overview of grammar and punctuation

Fee: $200.00 – includes all materials and break refreshments. Lunch on your own.

• Mail a check or purchase order to Be Well Partners
• Pay by credit card using PayPal

Additional Fees: You must register with PARW to take the exam ($225.00) as well as become a member of PARW ($150.00).

Principles and Practices of Self Esteem
Facilitator Qualification Program

Schedule: January 11, 18,25 and February 4, 2008

Heading successfully into its 3rd year, this 4-day intensive training for human services professionals, career counselors, coaches, social workers, mental health clinicians, and healthcare professionals introduces six elements of self esteem and how to use them to promote your clients’ ability to make healthy choices, gain confidence in meeting life’s challenges, and achieve personal and professional goals.

This program integrates foundational information on self-esteem with skills-based content on adult learning principles, learning styles, facilitating discussions, debriefing activities, and working with challenging group situations. Engaging application activities are used throughout the program, building skills and knowledge through case studies, role plays, games, skills practice, and reflective writing, as well as partner and group discussions.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn and apply six elements of self esteem – Awareness, Acceptance, Assertiveness, Accountability, Intention, and Integrity – to client and personal situations.
2. Review the key components of competence and worthiness and their impact on one’s ability to make successful and lasting progress toward goal attainment.
3. Discover a variety of approaches to counter the “inner critic” and build the voice of the “inner coach.”
4. Identify your primary learning style and ways of adjusting your approach to meet the needs of diverse learners.
5. Enhance your presentation and facilitation skills through structured practice opportunities and feedback.
6. Increase knowledge of the impact of self esteem by using and observing Self Esteem Boston’s Skills for Success curriculum (selected units on self esteem, self awareness, and motivation).

Upon successful completion of a written exam and videotaped presentation, you are eligible to receive CEU’s (drug and alcohol counselors, social workers, licensed mental health counselors) and 13 units from Self Esteem Boston’s Skills for Success curriculum. This curriculum has been used with diverse clients.

About Self Esteem Boston: Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute (SEB) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about self-esteem as a foundation for economic self-sufficiency, healthy family functioning, and freedom from negative societal issues. For the past 12 years, we have provided essential skills-based training to a variety of professionals and the clients they serve. SEB is the only organization in Massachusetts whose sole purpose is self-esteem education.

Program Cost: $1,450.00 – includes all materials, morning and afternoon refreshments, and lunch.

To register: call 617-983-1111 or e-mail empowermail@earthlink.net

For more information about Self Esteem Boston, visit www.selfesteemboston.com.

For more information about the program, call or e-mail Stephanie Legatos, Master Trainer with Self Esteem Boston, at Be Well Partners – 978-887-0070, bewellpartners@verizon.net.

Name: Hopelessly Devoted to NEW: Decidedly Different Worklife Designs for People Who Don’t Want to Choose

Schedule: Watch for upcoming support group info for Scanners!

Throughout our lives, many of were are asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up? What’s your major?” And, now we ’re asked, “What do you do?” All of these questions contain an underlying message, an assumption that we will choose one thing to focus on for our careers, our livelihood. Although some people (sometimes from a young age) were clear on what they wanted to be, I’ve found that this is rare. But, some of us continue to look longingly and wistfully at those few people who focused on, pursued and created a singular career.

Perhaps you were designed differently. Do you:

• have too many interests to ever choose just one?
• become bored with every new career you’ve chosen or considered?
• remain indecisive because you are overwhelmed by the potential choices or just don’t trust your own instincts?
• start new things with gusto, then run out of steam leaving behind unfinished projects?
• keep changing your mind about what you want to do – and feel like you are doing “nothing?”
• remain uncommitted to a career path because it might be the “wrong” one

You might be a SCANNER – someone who would be considered a Renaissance person in a different era. The term “Scanner” was first created by Barbara Sher in her book, I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was. Her new groundbreaking book, Refuse to Choose provides descriptions of different types of Scanners and what makes them tick – as well as tips to creatively organize yoursel to gain a sense of progress and satisfaction.

In this community of like-minded people, use Sher’s Refuse to Choose as a foundation for making your worklife dreams come alive – while celebrating and honoring your Scanner mindset.

If you are looking for...

• a place to get support and motivation
• the collective power of creativity
• a guide who can help you develop and sustain a system for living & working that works for you

...then join this group to create your own decidedly different career and life design – and leap over the trap of thinking that you need to choose only one thing! Learn innovative, practical and relevant tools and strategies that help you navigate through all those interests that pull you in different directions. Get support and coaching to launch and complete what you’re most drawn to accomplish, while affirming your Scanner mindset.

We’ll use a variety of approaches including collage, poetry, games, stream of consciousness writing, and visualization – as well as career research, emerging fields, and marketing strategies to support you in creating a life you want to live. Within a climate of discovery, spirited inquiry and fun you’ll analyze and identify themes & patterns in your work/life, uncover a core work identity, create job/career options, and “find” time to do the things you love (whether they’re connected to a career or not) – all to help you get unstuck. So, if your resume reflects someone who’s “all over the map,” won’t you join us to explore a world of possibilities?

Facilitator: Stephanie Legatos. I am a Scanner who found an enormous sense of validation and inspiration by reading Refuse to Choose. I’ve always had a variety of interests – some lasting for an hour, others for 10 or more years. My career history includes several successful career paths and 20+ diverse jobs. I’ve taken too many adult education workshops to mention (topics as diverse as ballroom dancing, wine tasting, calligraphy, color psychology, conga drumming and Feng Shui).

I have an interdisciplinary Masters Degree in Management and Counseling Psychology with numerous certifications. Since 1994 I provide career counseling and job search strategy services to people in career/job transition – and design and present workshops on a variety of topics. My friends consider me to be one of the best idea-generators and resourceful people they know. My clients say that I bring refreshing new perspectives, along with practical strategies and implementation plans, to their career and work/life dilemmas. In October I’ll be participating in an intensive 7-day Scanner retreat in Greece with Barbara Sher.