Unit One: NACE Knowledge Assessment
To enhance and leverage your experience in the Wise Wandering System course, learners must read the text "You Majored in What? Designing Your Path from College to Career" by Katherine Brooks prior to the start of the course.
Learners must verify their completion of the pre-reading through the NACE Learning Knowledge Assessment by scoring a 75 percent or better prior to beginning the course.
Unit Two: Introduction to the System
Following this session, you will be able to:
- Identify key elements of the Wise Wandering System;
- Describe the Wise Wandering System for career counseling;
- Examine system foundation and theoretical models; and
- Review job-market factors impacting career exploration and development.
Unit Three: Discover Your Strengths
Following this session, you will be able to:
- Define mind mapping and application for career counseling;
- Create a wandering map;
- Categorize themes of the wanderings map; and
- Examine strategies for mapping with individuals and groups.
Unit Four: Develop Your Vision
Following this session, you will be able to:
- Identify and assist in overcoming resistance factors;
- Analyze and guide clients through Possible Lives exercise with individuals and groups; and
- Distinguish clients' decision-making preference and apply appropriate goal-setting system.
Unit Five: Design the Path
Following this session, you will be able to:
- Create a career action plan with clients;
- Describe three outcome-focused career planning models; and
- Use creative processes to move the client through the stages of change.
Unit Six: Deliver Your Talents
Following this session, you will be able to:
- Use storytelling to develop a Go-to-marketing strategy;
- Develop actionable client development plans;
- Identify strategies to mitigate client resistance; and
- Incorporate the Wise Wandering System for your client population.