ILP Activities (Hansen, 1997)
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Circle of Life
The purpose:
The purpose:
Constructing a lifeline and looking at clients' lives holistically, and thinking through the larger picture.
Directions:
Directions:
Look at the circle & think about your own life patterns and how the circle comes together.
Draw a metaphor or symbol for the 'core' of who you are (it can be anything).
Inside the circle add Internal influences
Outside the circle add external influences
You can also include
Barriers
Facilitators (Parents, Teachers, mentors, etc.)
Life decisions
Decision styles
Significant messages from & about your family, education, work, leisure, and gender roles
Examples
Life Planning Influences
Purpose:
Purpose:
To help see the multiple influences in the client's lives and to think about the consequences of these influences for where the clients are in life now. It also helps them realize a career is more than an occupation.
Directions:
Directions:
Duration of activity: 20-30 minutes
The client takes a 3 by 5-inch card or 4 by 4 sheet of paper.
Ask clients to visualize the card as their own life quilt and reflect on Influences on their life and career
In the upper left corner of the card, write the earliest messages they received from their parents or caretakers about what they expected them to be and do
In the upper right corner, write what kind of life they had envisioned for themselves when they finish high school (including education, work, family, and so forth).
In the lower-left corner, write the name or position of the person(s) who most influenced them or who they wanted to be like.
In the lower-right corner, write down what they hope to be doing fifteen years from now (a somewhat realistic fantasy)
Afterward, put a symbol in the middle of the piece that expresses the core of who they are, their primary motivator, their center.
If done in a group ask participants to share their pieces, corner by corner, ending with discussion of the symbol. Ask them to share commonalities and differences. A few who wish to do so may share thier symbol. Then point out to the group that the card of each member of the workshop- if put together with the cards of the other members of the gorup- represents a unique quilt of the life patters of group members (using color paper is more effective).
Role Identification
Purpose:
Purpose:
To help clients understand the importance of life roles rather than just jobs.
Directions:
Directions:
Take a piece of paper (8 1/2 by 11 inches).
draw a line across the middle
Add 5 circles on the top half & 5 circles on the bottom half
In the circles, indicate which roles are currently most important to the client (number them by rank), and which they expect will be most important in 10-15 years.
Afterward, ask them to examine the circles and considered the following questions.
What is the status of these roles within your family system?
what are the expectations associated with each role?
How important are the roles at different life stages?
what happens if the woman's work or career goals become more important than the man's?
How much of our time, energy, and talents do we give to each role?
What is the impact on significant others of the way we carry out our roles?
How do their roles affect our relationships with each other? With children (if we have them)?
What roles do children play in this configuration?
Where do leisure, service, and volunteer roles fit in?
How can awareness of role options help us in life planning?
Are the roles concurrent and sequential for both partners?
Are they flexible or riding?
How are the roles different if we marry at 20 vs 30 or 35? How might they differ in gay or lesbian couples?
What happens to roles at the retirement stage of life?
For Groups
Have participants discuss how they labeled their roles and answers to some of the above questions.
Dreams & Hopes
Purpose:
Purpose:
To help clients envision the past, present, and future, and see how they fit together. Integration (including integration of time) helps people get a sense of connectedness, become aware of the enduring patterns and themes in life, strengthen their identity, and gain hope.
Directions:
Directions:
Start with a short relaxation exercise.
Then, ask participants to identify 3 dreams they have for the next 10-15 years.
The first dream about their own future
The second dream about the work organization they would like to be a part of
The third dream is about a vision of what they want their society to be like.
Have the participant assume they are on a cloud overlooking their own life and workplace or on a spaceship hovering over the county.
Have them do their visioning from the perspective of the various life roles Super & Sverko (1995) suggest they are likely to have: work, study, homemaking, leisure activity, and community activity.
After they have imaged each, the clients may want to write down what is happening in each of these roles.
Have them meet in small groups
For Groups
Have them meet in small groups and discuss the strategy, commenting on what they learned, which of the three dreams was most important to them, how the dreams were related, and so on.
Inhibitors & Facilitators of Change
Purpose:
Purpose:
To help clients become aware of the need for change in their system and of the factors that limit their ability to effect change.
Directions:
Directions:
Using the Change Agent Activity Worksheet identify short-range goals and long-range goals and then list examples of personal change, interpersonal change, and institutional change that are challenging.
The client should identify the inhibitors and barriers to the changes envisioned as well as their facilitators and then indicate the criteria needed for the accomplishment.
For Groups:
Small groups share and offered suggestions to each other on how to reduce the inhibitors and increase the facilitators
ILP- Wheel of Awareness
(Geike, T., Yan, C.M., & Becerra, J.P., 2022)
Purpose:
Purpose:
This activity is influenced by Integrative Life Planning (ILP) and helps recognize the clients need for change (growth mindset) by looking at their whole life holistically. Change can occur at many different levels and out of personal change will come social change (Hansen, 2011).
This handout helps the counselor and client paint a holistic view of their lives in the context of career. By integrating Happenstance and Mindset, counselors can work with clients to be comfortable with the uncomfortable by embracing their unplanned events.
Sections Page 1:
Current Goals (Career) --> [Critical Life Task] find work that needs to be doing, Spirituality and Life purpose
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs --> [Critical Life Task] Emotional, mental, and physical health
Support (looking at support and influence) what did family members do in clients lives --> [Critical Life Task] connecting family and work
Barriers (that may stop you or threats) --> [Critical Life Task] Connecting family and work, Inclusivity and pluralism, Organizational Changes
Self Knowledge and Values (Middle)--> [Critical Life Task] Weaving our lives into a meaningful whole integrating personal values into work
Directions:
Directions:
Duration of activity: 30-40 minutes
The client takes page 1 of worksheet and counselor explains the need to look at their whole life as related to career
On page 2 ask clients to fill out their current career goals, current mental and physical health implemented, what their support system looks like, any barriers, and what they value
After client is done, counselor will then have a discussion about each area and how that may affect their career; addressing each area of concern.
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