Unfamiliar Worlds

 Workshop:  Unfamiliar Worlds - Navigating New Worlds and Adjusting to New Environments (College, Work, Military, Unemployment, New Cultures, and Beyond)

• Overview:

Entering new environments brings unexpected and potentially uncomfortable challenges. People need to learn how to recognize and respond to those challenges. Participants will learn recognize what are new worlds, the challenges they bring, and how to identify potential available tools, resources, and support that will help them navigate their new worlds, and learn about the consequences of failure to effectively navigate.

• Learning Outcomes:

Participants Will Be Able To:

•  Define What is an Unfamiliar World

• Identify Why Unfamiliar Worlds are Difficult to Navigate

• Register That Entering New Environments Brings Unexpected and Potentially Uncomfortable Challenges

• Receive Tools to Help Them Navigate Their New Worlds

• Receive Tips to Help Them Fit into Their New Life

• Understand the Power of Hidden Rules

• Receive Tips for Dealing with Hidden Rules

• Understand How “Jumping Through Hoops” Will Impact Their Journey

• Recognize the Consequences of Failing to Effectively Navigate Unfamiliar Worlds

• Workshop Presenter:

  • Kathleen E. High, M.Ed., CCSP, FCD-I

• Downloads:

  • Career One-Stop

    • PowerPoint File

    • Handout

    • Map -1

    • Map -2

• Related Handouts:

• Delayed Response

• Rote Learning

• Hidden Rules

• Discerning Seasons

• Paradigm Shifts

• Culture, Education, and Unspoken Expectations

• Boundaries

• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

• Purposeful Living

• Timeline

• Setting Effective Goals

• Happenstance

• Responsible Helping

• Love Languages

• Common Sense

• Stress

• Overcoming Indecision

• Related Links:

  • The Conscious Competence Ladder

  • Cultural Dimensions

  • Change Cycle​

• Stages of Change Model

  1. Life Transitions Articles

  2. TED Talk - Susan Cain: The Power Of Introverts (Isolation breeds creativity and new ideas)

  3. Did You Know? (Shift Happens)

  4.  Movie Trailer: "Cast Away" (A life in transition)

  5. Movie Clip: "The Sixth Sense (illustration of a paradigm shift)

  6. Career One-stop - Service Locator (Where to find help looking for a job)

  7. Article: "Challenges for Working-Class Students Don’t End at Commencement"

  8. Case Study of Failure to Navigate:  Interns Fired for Proposing More Lax Dress Code

  9. Case Study of Failure to Navigate: Anthony Scaramucci

  10. When Tragedy Strikes

  11. Fight, Flight, Freeze Responses

  12. Fight, Flight or Freeze Response to Stress

  13. How stress affects your brain

  14. How stress affects your body
      

• Related Books:

• Transitions

  1. On Death and Dying (stages of grief)

  2. Luck is No Accident: Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life and Career

• Related Video Clips

  • Delayed Response -

    • Sully:

      • Actual Event

• Simulation

  1. Explanation

  2. Raw film footage from 9/11 - Ground Zero

  3. Clinton Explains Delayed Response to Trump's Behavior During Debate

  4. Hidden Rules - (Pretty Woman)

  5. Frozen Evaluation:

     • Back to the Future 3

     • The Internship

  6. Levels of Competence: Unconscious Incompetence (Sling Commercial)