Plot twist: no one is coming
I’ve been working my way through Dr. Nathaniel Branden’s The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem. It’s a well-known tome among therapists and counsellors, but down-to-earth enough for the average person. I highly recommended if you feel your own self-esteem shaking in its boots. One tiny section in particular caught my eye, because I so often find […]
Values and career regret
At the beginning of 2020, CERIC published the results of their survey on the status of career development in Canada. Some of the results specifically pointed to the high degree of career regret felt by people in Canada. The top regret? 72% of people who visited a career professional in Canada said that they wished […]
Online learning into the future
Where is the COVID shutdown leaving high school grads when it comes to next steps? While out on a recent hike, I happened to overhear a conversation between a high school teacher and her friends. The teacher expressed her frustration at the (very) low number of her Grade 12 students who had actually participated in […]