Dragon 9 Training believes that career counseling contributes to the prosperity
of the individual and of Canada. Career Counseling assists people to develop:
a positive sense of themselves and their career futures, understand their own talents, develop occupational goals along with the motivation to achieve them,
and acquire coping skills in the face of adversity. These outcomes result in people taking themselves, their futures, and their continuing education more seriously
and more positively, thereby moving to meaningful and lasting employment, less dependent on social assistance.
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Denise is an internationally recognized Trainer and Career Counsellor. She worked as a school teacher for 5 years in Northern Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. After 8 years of successful experience in career counseling, she held a position as staff trainer and counseling consultant for the Federal Government for 13 years.
Denise earned her B.ED at the University of Alberta and later worked on her Master's degree in Adult Education at the University of Saskatchewan along with post-graduate courses in Psychology. Along the way she became certified as a Trainer for Trainers in: Group Facilitation, Job Finding Clubs, Testing & Administration, Performance Management, Communication Skills, Team Building and more.
She joined the private sector as a training consultant, over the past 8 years she has provided well over 200 training sessions in Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and Newfoundland/Labrador. Departments include:
Staff consistently gives high rating in their post-training evaluations.
The World Bank and the Association of Canadian Community Colleges selected Denise for an International assignment in Romania. Her task was to set up Employment Counseling Services at 5 newly created Regional Adult Training Centers. The experience was enriching and challenging. It also made her aware of just how much she appreciated our great country with all its opportunities, diversity and resources.
Denise's workshops stimulate new ways of thinking, challenge self-defeating belief systems and offer new and powerful choices --- all in a gentle, supportive, safe, and fun atmosphere --- where the participants come up with the Ah-ha's!
To sum it up, Denise says: "I am grateful because I am teaching what I wish to learn!"
Module I - Assessment Component of Employment Counseling (ACEC)
"I really appreciate having a system to structure problem solving discussions. The program created a really good opportunity for team building while we worked together."
Alastair Macfadden, Regina, Advanced Education Employment and Learning.
Module II - Individual Employment Counseling
"You show real compassion for your work and it rolls over to your students!! I came to develop my skills as a career counselor and I realized how to develop myself; turning me into a counselor who learns with the client to guide them."
Lavinia Crisby - Cornerbrook, Nfld - Canadian Paraplegic Association.
"I gained valuable information and insight into employment counseling. It was down-to-earth, easy to understand and follow. I learned so much from my fellow participants as well. Awesome! So knowledgeable. A superb facilitator."
Margaret Fuchs - Saskatchewan- Southeast Regional College
Module III - Group Facilitation
"Denise, your teaching skills look so effortless and are so effective. You are a good role model. I can and will use this model in every day life as well as at work. The model makes me feel safe as a facilitator and confident that I will cover what my participants need and send them away with important skills and tools."
Marilyn Bundschuh - Meadow Lake SK - Partners for Success.
Module IV - Spinning Straw into Gold - Creative Job Search
"Very enjoyable and I gained a lot of positive reinforcement through materials, participants and instructor. Hidden jobs concept. Moving beyond the resume. Assessment tools, Value Cards Sort, Holland Codes, MBTI, Enneagram. Time well spent."
Joan Bellegarde - Saskatchewan - File Hills Employment and Training Center.
Module V - Job Finding Club 2009
"Denise is highly professional and encompasses extensive information within her groups. The information provided in handouts is well organized and highly useful. Denise's style of presentation is comfortable and inclusive."
Blanche Cassidy -Saskatchewan's Offender Employment Programs Adult Correction.
Module VI - P.R.I.M.E. T.I.M.E.
"I hate to say but it is really beneficial to "older" staff like myself, who subconsciously might be using methods from the industrial revolution. I found the training very beneficial. It tied many of the previous trainings that I attended into a system that can be used within and in support of the PDP and PLP but would make those activities more meaningful. The binder is a wonderful resource. In a time of heavy workloads with little time for reading the latest professional journals the trainer provided information on recent publications which will save my time. I have compiled a list of texts that I will be reading in the next few months. Her approach is fresh and empowering. She showed a lot of respect for the group. We felt "safe". The system she presented would be even more effective if employees all understood and were on the same page."
Gary Hysuik -Regina -Health Canada .
***NEW: Module XII- VISION 20/20, Space Clearing Workshop
Module I - ASSESSMENT COMPONENT OF EMPLOYMENT COUNSELLING (ACEC)
Dr. Patsula originally developed this course to meet the needs of service organizations, particularly the Federal Government, in their career counseling role.
The assessment interview is a specific process for goal setting, based on collaboration and clarification. During the process, the counselor meets with an individual to formulate a counseling goal. Counselors must collaboratively evaluate the strengths (resources) and challenges (limitations) in order to develop realistic counseling goals. This approach is person-centered and empowers them to take responsibility for the decision-making process while offering them active and respectful listening and professional expertise.
You will learn:
Module II - INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYMENT COUNSELLING
If Module I can be seen as a problem solving process of clarification and goal setting, then Module II can be seen as a process of goal confirmation, intervention and evaluation with the strongest emphasis on intervention. These interventions focus on providing counselors with practical and concrete alternatives to help individuals bring about the change needed to achieve their goals.
You will learn:
Module III - Group Facilitation
Module III was developed to help counsellors/staff lead groups and deal with group interactions more effectively. This course is not on group presentation and content, but rather on leadership and group interaction. Much of the learning in Modules I and II will be directly transferable to work with groups.
You will learn:
Module IV - Spinning Straw Into Gold (Creative Job Search)
As a job coach you are in a unique position to affect change in the lives of those citizens you serve and on the economic life of your community. Many of you have years of experience, with incredible depth and breath of understanding when it comes to the business of finding jobs. My hope is that this session will enhance and update what you already know; as well as provide time for reflection and reinforcement. For others, your counselor's toolkit will get packed with strategies and techniques to increase your effectiveness as a job coach.
Module IV covers the critical elements of career planning, aimed at finding work what will be personally fulfilling, both for yourself and your clients/citizens. SPIN straw into gold. (A metaphor for creative job searching):
S - Career success begins with Self-awareness
P - Package yourself, resumes, career brands, portfolios, bioblogs
I - Investigate and obtain Information on trends, opportunities and problems in the Labour Market.
A better job means a better life.
You will also learn the proper application of the following assessment tools:
Module V - Job Finding Clubs: TRAINING FOR LEADERS
Turn on the television and we hear that unemployment is reaching double digit numbers as the economy slides further into a recession, which some are starting to call a depression. Now, perhaps more than ever, Employment Counselors who are in a unique position to affect real change in the lives of those we serve and in the economic life of your business community need training to set up and run Job Finding Clubs - according to Nathan Azrin's method.
What makes JFC's so outstanding and successful compared to other job search methods? First of all they work. Richard Bolles, (author of "What Color Is Your Parachute?") has complied research that states: "out of every 100 people who use JFC's to find work, 84 will find a job, which is 11 times higher than just sending out resumes on your own." That's an 84% success rate. Secondly, a job search can be frightening and depressing, many feel isolated and hopeless, in a JFC participants are provided with support and guidance from a trained group leader, but perhaps even more importantly from other group members attending the session. Thirdly, this is an intensive three-week approach, which at the heart of this program, uses behavioral therapy techniques and demands that each participant make ten contacts per day to uncover "Hidden Jobs."
The world is going through a profound change. Work has also shifted dramatically; it is inevitable that the way we find jobs has changed as well. Surprisingly, the Internet, although a great tool - has not proven to be a magic wand. It has not changed the essential nature of job-hunting, which is that to be successful, one must ultimately meet face to face with the employer.
This is all about creating new opportunities for our unemployed citizens. Rather than approaching employers to ask for something, we approach employers with something to offer, an ongoing partnership characterized by an equal exchange of resources and opportunities. This provides details about activities and procedures designed to achieve the single, overriding objective of the Job Finding Club: to help the job seeker find a job of the highest feasible quality within the shortest feasible time period.
Module VI - Life Balance (Training for Trainers)
Training for Trainers is a 3 day workshop to assist career practitioners to run group sessions for clients in need of skills readiness prior to entering the labour market. The curriculum addresses social, psychological, cognitive, and attitudinal factors associated with preparation to enter the world of work. Dragon 9's primary objective is to enhance the development of basic life skills, personal competence, and skills related to social influences that promote high self-esteem necessary for successful job search. Self-esteem is the health of the mind; therefore few subjects are of comparable urgency. To face life with low self-esteem is to be at a severe disadvantage. This workshop explores the following questions: 1. What is self-esteem? 2. Why is self-esteem so important? 3. How can we raise the level of our self-esteem? 4. What role do others play in influencing our self-esteem? Self-esteem is the single most important psychological subject in the world. The tyranny of low self-esteem is legendary: - It drains meaning and purpose - It blocks creativity and obscures options, possibilities, and choices - It dominates thinking - It distorts reality and perceptions - It masquerades as truth and insight - It cultivates a victim mentality that can be defensive and contrary - It destroys motivation to try to start - It gives up, sometimes to the point of suicide - It robs people of their future Every aspect of this workshop is connected to self-esteem, the core idea of this workshop is to teach: Your life is important. Honour it. Fight for you highest possibilities. Self-esteem has an immense impact on relationships, work and the struggle for happiness. It is the common denominator, a profound and powerful human need essential for healthy change and self-fulfillment. Of all the judgements we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves. Many people underestimate their power to change and grow. The belief that they are powerless becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Of course there are no simple answers, but perhaps this workshop will give you some fresh ideas, new perspectives and some new strategies. Multi-barriered clients are becoming more common , as practitioners, we need to do all we can to create an environment that is conducive to all people making good choices no matter the cause of their challenges.
Module VII - Prime Time Leadership and Performance Management Training
What's in it for Employees and staff?
Benefits to Managers/Supervisors:
The purpose:
To understand the key concepts and purposes of Modules I, II and III and to be in a better position to support career counselors.
Note: The same benefits as listed for Prime Time apply to this workshop, however this session is more targeted to the career counseling services.
In a time when government is concerned with results in terms of investing in clients, it seems logical when staff training investments are made, that we look for results in achieving the desired learning objectives and transfer of skills to the job. Is it any wonder that we want to see tangible results when thousands of dollars are spent annually on staff training?
Since evaluation costs amount to a mere fraction of the cost of training, evaluation is a good learning investment. We also know that encouragement and support:
Exercises can verify that identified learning needs have been met and thus provide a measure of accountability
Of learning is consistent with recommendations from audit reviews.
Module VIII - Discovering your options aka "Individual and/or Group Service Needs Determination"
You should attend if you:
· Are currently working on the front lines of career and employment services
· Are seeking further development and greater satisfaction in your current position
· Want to empower individuals in identifying their strengths, values and services
· Are seeking to understand the resources and capacity of your community
The Philosophy behind this session is to help “empower†the client, it is important to note, this is done by the use of six critical steps which help the client understand his/her situation and what is to be done. Group interaction sessions (approximately two hours) allow the members to give each other support and to normalize their reaction to unemployment by listening to others’ reactions. Individual sessions, one-on-one interviews typically take 20 minutes, including documentation.
You will learn:
· To effectively clarify the purpose of the interview with the client
· To identify the client’s and service provider’s role and responsibilities
· To affirm the individual’s emotional state within the job loss cycle
· To assess with the individual or members, their employment strengths and needs
· To explain program and service interventions related to that need
· How to assist individuals one on one and in a group to develop an effective career development action plan
Module XI - Circle of Courage
The philosophy embodied in this circle of courage is not only a cultural belonging of Native peoples, but a cultural birthright for all the world’s citizens. Lacking a sense of self-worth, a young person from any cultural or family background is vulnerable to a host of social, psychological, and learning problems.
The four basic components of self-esteem are significance, competence, power, and virtue. Traditional Native educational practices addressed each of these four bases of self-worth:
1. Significance was nurtured in a cultural milieu that celebrated the universal need for Belonging
2. Competence and Mastery was ensured by guaranteed opportunities
3. Power was fostered by encouraging the expression of Independence
4. Virtue was reflected in the pre-eminent value of Generosity
Preamble – This workshop is designed to support the Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice in achieving its goals of recidivism through engagement of aboriginal inmates into the workforce. Canada’s Tribal Councils through its Employment and Training Services have the expertise to deliver services to First Nations and others who are seeking employment support.
The Objective
· Support employers in providing employment opportunities for incarcerated and recently released first nation individuals
· Support inmates who may be on a “work crew” during incarceration maintain employment of find new employment following their release.
· Support those inmates seeking employment following release along with their family members - in the transition from incarcerated living to community living
The Opportunity
· Connect labour ready inmates seeking a renewed start with employers
· Remove transition barriers that inhibit incarcerated individuals from sustained employment
· Using a holistic approach connect participants to their community and employment
· Ensure potential employees are labour, with reduced barriers to success
These original workshops were developed by giants in the career development field such as: Dr. Phil Patsula, Norm Amundson, Lynne Bezanson, Nathan Azrin, Richard Bolles, Germaine Belzille and Celine Renald, to name a few.
The facilitator, Denise Urbanski has over 30 years experience as a counseling consultant, workshop facilitator, curriculum designer, individual employment counselor. Denise has been widely recognized for excellence in both content development and presentation style.
Course duration: 3 full days. Typically, starting Monday @ 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. all day Tuesday and Wednesday.
How to Register: Contact Dragon 9 Training at 1.306.525.4460 Online at: www.dragon9training.com or E-mail: dragon9@accesscomm.ca
Course Costs:
Reflect current market conditions, duration, course content, travel and number of participants in each session. To receive accurate costs refecting you specific needs, or to book your group session please contact us. Payment must be received seven days prior to workshop start date. Participants are considered registered once registration form is received and payment is secured. We accept Visa, MasterCard and Debit. Cheques should be made payable to Dragon 9 Training. Receipts will be made available at the session. Full fees will be refunded if the session is cancelled. All fees include pre-reading and in-session materials. Registrants who provide written notice of cancellation at least seven days in advance of the workshop start date will receive a full refund OR option of re-scheduling to a later session date. Non-attendance or late notification will result in full session fees or the re-scheduling option.
Modules I, II & III are currently mandatory courses for the Province of Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education Employment & Labour (A.E.E.&L).
Contact Denise & Rick Urbanski: 2200 Angus St.
Regina, SK
Phone: 1.306.525-4460 S4T 2A2, Canada
E-mail: dragon9@accesscomm.ca
Master Training Certification – Dragon 9 Training
To earn the status of a Master Training Certification, participants must have successfully completed and meet all the requirements of NINE of the following Twelve workshops offered by Dragon 9 Training. Note *** Six are Mandatory.
· Module I – (A.C.E.C.) Assessment Component of Employment Counselling Mandatory
· Module II – Individual Employment Counselling Strategies & Interventions Mandatory
· Module III – Group Facilitation Mandatory
· Module IV – Creative Job Search, S.P.I.N. (Spinning Straw into Gold)
· Module V – Job Finding Club, Training for Leaders Mandatory
· Module VI – Life Balance – It’s Your Choice, Training for Trainers
· Module VII – Prime Time – Leadership and Performance Management Training Mandatory
· Module VIII – Discovering Your Options, Group & Individual Needs Determination
· Module IX – Communication Skills Mandatory
· Module X – Money and Business - How to start a Successful Business
· Module XI – Circle of Courage – Tools for Ex-Offenders to overcome barriers to work
· Module XII – Vision 2020 – Space Clearing – a new and exciting way to set goals
This Master Training designation provides the groundwork for Professional Training in Career Development. This certification program will provide trainers with the basic skills and knowledge needed to design, deliver and evaluate their own training sessions. Importance is placed on developing interactive training techniques to engage and stimulate the learners.
Once Certified as a Master Trainer, participants are then eligible to be upgraded to co-facilitate Dragon 9 Training, thus expanding their professional training horizons.
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