Career workshops

Oct 13 - Nov 17: Design Your Life Bootcamp: A Career Exploration Series for UVic Psychology undergrads

Feeling uncertain about your future? Curious about different career paths? Looking for a better way to make decisions about your future?

Good news: you don't need to have everything figured out.

At Design Your Life Bootcamp, you'll explore career ideas, connect your interests to possibilities, imagine different futures, and create a plan for your next steps.

No pressure. No perfect answers. Just practical tools for moving forward. You don't need a perfect plan. You just need a place to start. Register today and start designing your future.

If you are not a Psych student but interested in attending, please email Darcie at careereducator3@uvic.ca.

Workshop 1: Find Your Compass

Identify your values, interests, and priorities to create a personal guide for future decisions.

Explore the core principles of Designing Your Life, a book by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans of Stanford Life Design Studio, challenge common career myths, and reflect on your values, interests, and goals.

Participants will develop a personal compass that can help guide future career and life decisions.

When: Tuesday, Oct 13, 2026, 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Where: Career Services office (Campus Services Building, room 110 - just off the bus loop, to the left of the Bookstore entrance).
Register for Workshop 1

Workshop 2: Follow your Curiousity

Explore career and life possibilities through creativity, curiosity, and mind mapping.

Learn how curiosity can open doors to new opportunities. Through mind mapping and guided activities, participants will identify potential career paths, discover new interests, and expand their thinking about what is possible.

When: Tuesday, Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Where: Career Services office (Campus Services Building, room 110 - just off the bus loop, to the left of the Bookstore entrance).
Register for Workshop 2

Workshop 3: Plan your Odyssey

Develop multiple future pathways and discover that there is more than one meaningful direction you can take.

Using the Odyssey Planning framework, participants will create multiple versions of their future and explore different possibilities for work, learning, and life. This workshop encourages creativity, flexibility, and openness to new directions.

When: Tuesday, Nov 3, 2026, 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Where: Career Services office (Campus Services Building, room 110 - just off the bus loop, to the left of the Bookstore entrance).
Register for Workshop 3

Workshop 4: Take the Next Step

Turn ideas into action with practical strategies for exploring options, making decisions, and moving forward with confidence.

Learn how to gather information, test career ideas, and make decisions with confidence. Participants will develop a personalized action plan and identify concrete next steps for continuing their career exploration journey.

When: Tuesday, Nov 17, 2026, 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Where: Career Services office (Campus Services Building, room 110 - just off the bus loop, to the left of the Bookstore entrance).
Register for Workshop 4

Oct 27 - Cultural Intelligence (CQ) as a toolkit towards neuroinclusion in the workplace

How can we better support neuroinclusive workplaces?

This interactive workshop introduces Cultural Intelligence (CQ) as a practical framework for understanding behavioral differences and fostering inclusion.

Facilitated by UVic's Accessibility and Inclusion Co-op and Career Coordinator, a CQ-certified practitioner, participants will explore key concepts related to neurodiversity, reflect on their own behavioural preferences, and learn strategies for navigating differences with empathy, curiosity, and respect.

Participants will leave with practical tools to support communication, collaboration, and belonging across diverse ways of thinking and working.

When: October 27 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Where: David Strong Building, room C118

Offered as part of UVic's 5 Days of Action.

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We aim to create a welcoming environment for all attendees and use principles of universal design to minimize the need for accommodations. You can contact us in advance if you have accessibility inquiries.

Request a workshop

We can arrange customized workshops for groups of 10 or more. Whether it's for a class, course union, club or other group, let us know how we can help.

Example topics include:

résumés and cover letters
career exploration
building your competencies
interview skills
presentation skills
pros and cons of self-identification
approaches to requesting accommodations
allyship in the workplace