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Our London one-day career change workshop
The world’s longest-running career change workshops
Due to coronavirus, we are not currently running this in-person workshop. Instead, please see our ‘How to find the work you love’ online workshop.
Set in a beautiful location in Richmond, London and working with a small group of 12 people, this is an intimate, high quality experience. With a whole day to focus on you and your work, it’s a chance to take a step back and really get stuck in.
Experienced career coach Sonia Lakshman or Sarah Dawrant will take you through an expertly conceived process designed to help you deepen your understanding of yourself, then building on ideas and options from there. We’ll also look at how to get past common blocks and challenges and pack the session with advice on how to get going, create opportunity and open doors.
You’ll find yourself in the company of people who feel like you do and want to finally change that. Because of the small group size you get individual attention to get past the areas where you personally feel stuck. There's pre work too, to help you prepare and get the most out of the day.
If you've never really known what you’ve wanted to do, that you’ve fallen into what you do now, that you once loved your work but don’t anymore, or that you’re just not quite sure how to make the life you want happen – but desperately want to – you need to be at this workshop!
WHAT is it that you really want to do?
and
HOW do you make it happen?
We work intensively – there’s prework so you’re prepared; then we delve deeper, help you understand yourself and your needs, explore options and ideas and establish next steps; as well as getting thorny subjects like cash, confidence and confusion off your chest and on the table. You leave with clarity, inspiration, workable ideas AND with an action plan to get on with.
Pre-work sent to you ahead of the workshop
10.00 - 1.00 Get Clarity – Self analysis and understanding
[Break for coffee at 11.30]
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch
2.00 - 4.00 Get Thinking – Generate ideas and options
[Break for coffee and cakes at 3.15]
4.00 - 6.00 Get Going – Next steps, know how and success strategies
All materials are provided including refreshments (except lunch, you can bring sarnies or eat at the restaurant or the local cafes) and the price is fully inclusive. The workshops are held at a beautiful venue in Richmond, London. Richmond is well connected both by tube (district line), Silverlink and British Rail and there’s parking if you’re driving.
Full details for the day will be sent to you at the time of booking.
Sarah Dawrant, BA, CPCC is a dynamic and experienced career coach with a talent for understanding and developing people's unique gifts, strengths and abilities.
Sarah works with clients around the world to support them in figuring out what they are innately best at, as well as how to set boundaries and be more assertive in the workplace. As an interactive trainer, she has run workshops across Canada, the UK and Europe for blue-chip companies, charities and governments.
Mary Wilson
Mary Wilson, MA Cantab, has an enduring curiosity in what makes people tick at work and why and how they choose the jobs they do.
With a background that spans the charity and educational sectors, she now specialises in career transition. She also enjoys working as a musician performing, teaching, composing and facilitating community music projects.
The workshop shook things up in the best way possible. I came out excited, inspired with a sense of purpose and motivation. Perhaps most importantly for the long-term I felt as if I knew myself, my aptitudes, strengths and what would fit me best career-wise infinitely better than when I had arrived that morning. Cannot recommend it highly enough!
It was the perfect location, ideal atmosphere and a small group of like-minded people. My life has become an exciting journey since. I started meeting so many interesting people which seemed unreachable before. I am looking into creating passive income streams, so I can spend more time making my dreams come true. It's been amazing to say the least.
Thanks for hosting a great workshop. Loved it. It was a great opportunity to step back from the day job and give serious thought to my own aspirations for a work/life balance. I found it empowering , stimulating and supportive. I now face the small challenge of putting some of my new thoughts into action!
Really, really, really good."
I have known for a very long time that law wasn’t for me, but I really wasn’t sure how I could move on. You tackled the issue from the “bottom up”, looking at who we were and building it from there. I didn’t expect to come away from it feeling so positive and inspired. In the past I felt scared to take my head out of the sand and look at the problem in the face, but now I feel really excited about the future. I really can’t thank you enough.
The workshops are held at a beautiful venue in Richmond, London. Full details for the day will be sent to you at the time of booking.
Due to coronavirus, we are not currently running this in-person workshop. Instead, please see our ‘How to find the work you love’ online workshop.
Anyone who feels stuck workwise and isn’t sure what next. You may have fallen into what you do now or never really known what you wanted to do. Maybe your industry has changed or your commitments have. It could be that you used to enjoy what do but don’t anymore. Or you’re returning to work after a break and aren’t sure where to begin. Participants come from a wide range of backgrounds and ages, all with one thing in common: they all really enjoy want to enjoy what they do. You’ll find you’re not alone – and, in fact, in stimulating company.
It’s an intensive session and we pack a lot in! You’ll have the chance to step back and to really address your working life in a focused way. You leave with a deeper understanding of yourself, freshly thought through ideas and options, equipped with how-to’s, first steps and connections. Plus lots of stimulation, inspiration and motivation.
It depends what you are trying to address. If, for example, you need help with a job search or how to position yourself in the work marketplace, one-to-one coaching would be preferable (see 'Coaching' link at the bottom of this page for more information). Or, if you also want very concentrated individual help then again one-to-one would be a better solution. Otherwise this workshop will really help you address things, get clarity and get going. If you later feel you’d still like one to one to hone things further and to help you get there, you can always bolt on individual coaching too.
Yes, it is. We do need to make special arrangements, so please let us know at the time of booking.
Please click the 'Can't make this date?' link underneath the booking button on this page and leave your details. We'll then let you know as soon as we publish the date of the next workshop.
No, we don't. To be honest, we don't normally have drop-outs. If you want to be guaranteed a spot, we recommend you book on the next available workshop shown on this page.
We run these workshops on Saturdays. If you'd prefer a weeknight, take a look at our London evening workshop, which is currently priced at £85, or if you'd prefer to to take part online, take a look at our online workshop, which is currently priced at £65.
Yes, we run an evening workshop in Manchester. We also run an online workshop, which you can take part in from home.
Yes. Just buy a ticket as normal and write to us at hello@careershifters.org to let us know the name of the person you've bought the ticket for. We'll do the rest!
Just drop us a line at hello@careershifters.org and we'll normally be able to get back to you within 24 hours on working days.
The workshops are held at a beautiful venue in Richmond, London. Full details for the day will be sent to you at the time of booking.
Due to coronavirus, we are not currently running this in-person workshop. Instead, please see our ‘How to find the work you love’ online workshop.