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Hope-Filled Engagement: New Possibilities in Life/Career Counselling expresses a person-centered, solution-focused, hope-focused approach that engages people where they are engaged with life and equips them to walk their life/career paths with dignity whatever their challenges.
Read a sample chapter and more about Hope-Filled Engagement here.
Paperback, 357 pages | ISBN 978-0-9784653-1-5 | $45.00
Metaphor Making: Your Career, Your Life, Your Way is designed for counsellors interested in better utilizing metaphors in their practice. It includes theoretical foundations and intervention exercises (client initiated; counsellor responsive; counsellor initiated) and a metaphoric case conceptualization process for use in supervision. Forty metaphoric images offer an in-depth practical and personal opportunity to experience the metaphoric process, which are also presented in the included card sort format. A set comes with the book and additional copies can be ordered separately. The cards can be used in both individual and group settings to generate discussion and exploration.
Includes Metaphor Making Card Sort, an interactive card sort activity presented on 48-cards in a custom box, complete with make-your-own metaphor cards and instructions.
Read reviews and more about Metaphor Making and the included Card Sort here.
Paperback, 157 pages | ISBN 978-0-9684345-0-5 | $55.00
Active Engagement In Action is a two-disc DVD series that features actual career counselling sessions with Dr. Norman Amundson, and serves as a companion to his book, “Active Engagement: The Being and Doing of Career Counselling”.
Included in this set are Active Engagement Through The Life Span, a vocational journey with participants from high school through to retirement, and Active Engagement Through A Cross Cultural Lens, an exploration of the immigrant experience as it relates to employment. Both discs utilize pop-up counselling terms and audio commentary, allowing you to further explore the counselling methods and processes used, while Dr. Amundson shares thoughts about his experience behind-the-scenes and insights into each of the clients.
Featuring over 3 hours of video, 10 interviews with individual scene selection, full audio commentary with Norman Amundson, and helpful pop-up counselling terminology.
Watch clips and read more about Active Engagement In Action here.
2-DISC DVD, NTSC FORMAT| ISBN 978-0-9684345-9-8 | $55.00
“This book is excellent. It is well-written and a good read. Clearly, through the author’s creativity, he has pushed out the envelope on what models and techniques are appropriate and he has pierced a lot of the rigidity in the field.”
EDWIN L. HERR- Distinguished Professor of Education, The Pennsylvania State University
Active Engagement received the Best Book Award by the Canadian Counselling Association. In this third edition Dr. Amundson adds new theoretical and practical information about career processes: The Need for a Backswing; ‘Being’ and ‘Doing’; Chaos Theory; Metaphoric Communication Skills; Contextual Based Interviewing; Circle of Strengths; Career Flow; Workplace Attractors; An Expanded Intelligent Career Approach; Applying an Entrepreneurial Perspective; Career as a Pathway/Journey; Kite Flying; and More About Stories. Also included are a series of case studies illustrating the ways in which employment counsellors have applied the active engagement method.
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Second edition is available in Dutch, Swedish and Danish translations.
Paperback, 358 pages | ISBN 978-0-9684345-8-1 | $45.00
“Norm Amundson weaves magic with metaphors. He encourages readers to seek out the quiet places, reach for balance and meaning-full lives. This book is personal, practical , spiritual, insightful, surprising and fun!"
LYNNE BEZANSON - Executive Director, Canadian Career Development Foundation
The Physics of living examines patterns that extend across the physical and psychological realms. Within its pages there is the opportunity to explore metaphors and through this exploration to examine life and career issues. Some of the topics addressed include life balance, energy transfer, identity development, burnout, quantum thinking, and hope, heroes and opportunity. This is a book about life and how to live in the world with wisdom, truth, and beauty.
Also available in a Danish translation.
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Paperback, 184 pages | ISBN 0-9684345-3-3 | $10.00
Ergon Communications' most popular title, Career Pathways, provides a practical, self-directed approach to mapping out your career. Career Pathways will help you explore new occupations, learn some of the myths of career choice, research and evaluate your potential career options, and discover your career potential. Written in an easy to use, “hands on” style, this book is appropriate for anyone from youth to seniors.
Also available in French, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Icelandic, Arabic, Japanese, Romanian and Bulgarian translations.
Softcover, 76 pages
English: ISBN 0-660-16397-7 | $7.00
French: ISBN 0-660-95917-8 | $7.00
Career Pathways condensed for people ready to summarize information and move towards career decisions.
Also available in French, Danish, Swedish and Dutch translations.
Booklet, 8 pages,
English: ISBN 0-660-17613-0 | $2.50
French: ISBN 0-660-96110-5 | $2.50
Career crossroads occur when you are on a career path and you find yourself at a place where you wonder if you are on the right track. You may find yourself wondering whether you should continue on your current path or move in a new direction. If you stay, how do you make the most of your situation? If you move, what direction should you choose? Through this book you are given the opportunity to explore your options, check your sight, evaluate your perspectives and look at the big picture. An essential guide for anyone at a Career crossroad and wondering “what now?”
Also available in a Greek translation.
Booklet, 28 pages | English: ISBN 0-968435-1-7 | $5.00
Guiding Circles: An Aboriginal Guide to Finding Career Paths is based on a
holistic career development approach that combines traditional Aboriginal
worldview (such as spirituality, connectedness, community, values and life balance) with sound contemporary career development concepts (including the inclusive approaches of Active Engagement and Career Craft which emphasize imagination, creativity and flexibility). Guiding Circles is culturally relevant to Aboriginal peoples but it can also be applied to other client groups.
Guiding Circles: Booklet 1, Understanding Yourself leads individuals through a creative career self-assessment process that has a starting point of strength and accomplishment.. The workbook assists individuals to discover relevant career information through identifing and telling specific life stories in a positive, focused, self-reflective way. Discoveries are recorded on a career circle, which serves as a framework to assist individuals identify eight essential factors: gifts/aptitudes/skills, interests, personal style/spirit, values/meaning, balance, learning, work/life roles, and work connections. The workbook also includes several different career circles that can be used to explore connections with others, career values, life balance and creative action steps.
Supported by the Aboriginal Human Resources Council of Canada. A career pathways workbook based on Aboriginal traditions and wisdom.
Booklet, 36 pages | ISBN 0-9732018-0-0 | $6.00
Guiding Circles: An Aboriginal Guide to Finding Career Paths is based on a holistic career development approach that combines traditional Aboriginal worldview (such as spirituality, connectedness, community, values and life balance) with sound contemporary career development concepts (including the inclusive approaches of Active Engagement and Career Craft which emphasize imagination, creativity and flexibility). Guiding Circles is culturally relevant to Aboriginal peoples but it can also be applied to other client groups.
The second workbook in the Guiding Circles series: Booklet 2, Finding New Possibilities builds on the first workbook. It assists individuals to take what they have discovered in the process of self-assessment and to use that information to explore realistic career alternatives and then make effective career decisions. Booklet 2 applies the same principles as Booklet 1; for example it considers the communal aspects of effective career decision making and not just the individualistic aspects.
After reviewing their career circle, individuals work through several other circles which assist them in identifying their potential support network; in generating, researching, and evaluating potential career options (including entrepreneurship); in making effective career decisions in association with the significant people in their lives; and in creative action planning for their next step.
Supported by the Aboriginal Human Resources Council of Canada. A career pathways workbook based on Aboriginal traditions and wisdom.
Booklet, 36 pages | ISBN 0-9732018-0-0 | $6.00
