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2019 Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association Interview with Amy Rubin and Christina Gentile

The Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association is a national bilingual association of professionally trained counsellors. CCPA’s members work in diverse fields of education, employment and career development, social work, business, industry, mental health, public service agencies, government and private practice. The 2019 conference was jointly presented with the Int’l Association for Counselling. It was held May [...]

July 9th, 2019|Tags: Breathing, Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, career counsellor, CCPA, counsellor, education, heath, intentional exploration, mental heath, professors, research, transferable skills, university, wellness, yoga|0 Comments

2019 Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association Interview with Amy Rubin and Christina Gentile

Amy Rubin is a yoga therapist (C-IAYT) and has worked with hundreds of clients suffering from anxiety, depression, addiction, and chronic pain. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Counselling. Her session was, Yoga Therapy: Basic Frameworks and Therapeutic Techniques for Counsellors and other Professionals. Christina Gentile holds a M.A. (Counselling Psychology) from the University [...]

July 3rd, 2019|Tags: Breathing, Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, career counsellor, CCPA, counselling, counsellor, education, health, intentional exploration, professors, research, self-knowledge, Therapeutic, transferable skills, university, wellness, yoga|0 Comments

Mental Health and Self-Care in the Workplace

How safe is your workplace from a psychological health perspective? What can you do as an employee and employer to mitigate psychological health risks in the workplace? Half a million Canadians are off work each week due to mental illness. One in five Canadians experience a mental health problem each year. With figures like these, [...]

October 25th, 2017|Tags: education, first aid, harm reduction, health, health therapist, intentional exploration, mental health, mental illness, psychological health, psychologist, psychology, rehabilitation services, research, researcher, transferable skills, wellness, workplace safety|0 Comments

Don’t Make Any Assumptions: Inside U of T Mississauga’s Career Centre

“Don’t make any assumptions,” said self-confessed career geek, Felicity Morgan, “about what you think about any career area.” Felicity is director of the career center at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. The UTM career centre serves over 13,000 students, with 15 staff. When we make assumptions we risk “not seeing our own biases and [...]

Positive Psychology experts discuss Hedonia, Eudaimonia and the Virtuous Organization
Positive Psychology experts discuss Hedonia, Eudaimonia and the Virtuous Organization

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Positive Psychology experts discuss Hedonia, Eudaimonia and the Virtuous Organization

With so much interest in positive psychology, how can we use it to enrich our careers and lives? How can it help us to flourish? These are questions that today’s podcast guests help answer. Guests were speakers and exhibitors at the recent Canadian Positive Psychology Association’s national conference held in Niagara on the Lake, June [...]

Starting over at 35
Starting over at 35

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Starting over at 35

On the surface Melissa Hughes had it all. In her words “On the outside, my life at 35 looked great — a promising career, a doting partner, an elegant home, things, vacations, a big engagement ring, money in the bank… There was just one problem: I wasn’t happy.” After a series of career error corrections [...]

June 10th, 2016|Tags: career management, career transition, communications, consultancy, Consulting, corporate career change, health, innovation, intentional exploration, journalism, journalist, management, research, self-care, self-determination, self-knowledge, wellness|1 Comment

Meet Luke from STOPGAP

A single step can be a really big issue. Not just for someone who uses a wheelchair. A Toronto engineer who created a simple, user-friendly ramp that's made hundreds of businesses more accessible recently received the Everyday Political Citizen award from civic advocacy group Samara Canada. Luke Anderson — who crashed while mountain biking in [...]

February 25th, 2016|Tags: accessibility, civil engineer, disability, disability services, engineer, engineering, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, intentional exploration, research, workplace accessibility|1 Comment

Why a gap year is good and how skateboarding can save your life
Why a gap year is good and how skateboarding can save your life

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Why a gap year is good and how skateboarding can save your life

Jay Mandarino, CEO of CJ Group of Companies, tells us about overcoming his barriers to a thriving career and life and giving back to his community. He talks about how skateboarding is linked to transferable skills and how it helped him gain confidence to become the amazing person he is today. At 20:25, Denis Luchyshyn [...]

Excavate your story. Ace your interview.

Because your résumé can't do all the talking for you, Anand Patel, the co-founded InterviewDrill, explains Their app that aims to make interview preparation easier. He is a product manager that draws upon understanding his consumers to gain success in his career. Tune in Wednesday and ace the interview! Starting at 26:56: What can writing about [...]

June 12th, 2015|Tags: career writing, development, education, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, experiential learning, happiness, innovation, intentional exploration, journalism, research, self-knowledge, time management, wellness, writing|0 Comments

Four more inspiring interviews from the CPPA conference

Four more inspiring interviews from thought leaders in positive psychology at the Canadian Positive Psychology Association's 2014 conference in Ottawa: Jamie Gruman, Sue Langley, Corey Zadik and Karen Cohen. https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/careerbuzz-2014-08-27.mp3 Click here to listen or download

September 10th, 2014|Tags: CPPA, cross Canada, health, mental health, positive psychology, psychology, public organization, research, wellness, workplace wellness|0 Comments