Integrative Life Planning (ILP) helps individuals see a holistic, big-picture view of their lives. This may include family, communities, and the larger society. The ILP framework is used in career and mental health to help support counselors to paint a picture of a client's life, which then can help determine how the pieces fit together into a meaningful whole (Hansen, 2011). ILP was developed out of the need to expand career services beyond typical assessments and career research (Hansen, 2011). During Hansen's work, her students found the career selection process too narrow to fit the changing world and the needs of individuals (Hansen, 2011). Although typical career counseling is critical to selecting careers, ILP goes beyond the traditional approach by adding a holistic perspective to look at a client's whole life (Hansen, 2011). Through this holistic framework, counselors can perceive, think, and act in new innovative ways that can help develop new ideas and patterns as we try to make our work meaningful and purposeful (Hansen, 2011). Lastly, ILP can be used to start those difficult conversations with clients taking into consideration of their whole life, linking together career and mental health counseling. Hansen uses the metaphor "Weaving Our Lives into a Meaningful Whole," like patches in a quilt.

New Task: Attending to our health: Physical, Mental & Emotional.

This task was added years later after Hansen experienced multiple health issues and reflected on the impact of her life and career decisions. The impact health has on the client's life can affect the career they seek and the family interactions or changes in roles they play in their family dynamics.

ILP was developed to target cultures in the USA; however, it has been used in other countries; Australia, Bolivia, Japan, New Zealand), Sweden, and South Africa (Hansen, 2011). Hasen came from a low-income family of Norwegian descent. She became interested in culture at a young age as she interacted with other minorities in her neighborhood (Skovholt, Hage, Kachgal, & Gama, 2007). Hasen's early interactions started to make her aware of the differences and similarities she shared with other kids in her neighborhood.

Alongside ILP, Hasen created the BORN FREE training project (Build Options, Reassess Norms, Free Roles Through Educational Equity). Born Free was developed to address gender and career integration. Its goals were to increase equity and reduce gender-role stereotyping, negatively affecting women's and men's careers. Born FREE assumes that;

1. Both women & men are limited by gender roles, stereotypes, & socialization.

2. No individual or group is to blame for the barriers, as we are all products of socialization. Men and women need to work together to solve the problem of career and societal barriers.

3. Students are affected at every level of the education spectrum.

4. Parents and educators can intervene to expand opportunities for everyone.

• Focuses on adult career development using self-knowledge and understanding of society (Higher reasoning, insight, judgment, metacognition, etc.)

• Lengthy Process. It takes time to explore the client's whole self.

• Counselors should attend trainings to implement into sessions.

• Lack of information and research on Integrative Life Planning Theory.