course. Young people often labor under the false impression that we had a firm, fixed heading in sight for our personal and pro- fessional lives when we were their age, and that we sailed straight for it without once deviating. We have to disabuse them of this notion. We have to help them understand that most of us started out with only a hazy understanding of the course our lives were on. We have to let them know that the head- ings we set for our personal and professional lives were usually only provisional; that they changed - sometimes radically - with every new encounter along the voyage.


We need to explain what following a chosen course in life is really like. A friend who is an aircraft pilot explained it best. “Most people think that we turn on the autopilot once we reach cruising altitude, and that it keeps us dead on course all the way to the destination. But nothing could be further from the truth,” he continued.


time, on a transatlantic flight, for example, we are actually off-course.


for example, continually interfere with the


ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE


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Cross-winds, “Most of the


heading we’ve chosen. The autopilot sens- es these deviations, and is constantly having to react to bring the aircraft back on course – usually several times a second.” Living a human life is very much the same. We cruise along until at some point our internal compass lets us know that the career or re- lationship heading we’ve chosen is taking us too far off-course. So we change direction. These course changes are not ‘mistakes’, any more than the course changes made by the autopilot of an aircraft are ‘mistakes’.


are healthy, normal adaptations to situations that are constantly changing.


Journeys into larger worlds of possibility re- quire the courage to lose sight of the known. They require the ability to sail without clear maps, and to trust that the guidance needed will appear along the way. Adults who work with youth can help them best by reminding them of this. They can tell them the story of their own journey, and in so doing offer liv- ing proof that the crossing is both possible and worth it.


The Stu Conger Award for Leadership in Career


Counselling and Career Development


CCDF awards The Stu Conger Award for Leadership to individuals nominated by peers as leaders in the field. In addition to the award, a scholarship is granted to a student, chosen by the recipient, who demonstrates leadership potential. Recipients of the award to date include:


Dr. Dave Redekopp (1997), Judy Lynn Archer (1998), Phillip Jarvis (1999), John McCormick (2000), Dr. Vance Peavy (2001), Dr. Roberta Neault (2002), Dr Jacques Limoges (2003), Dr. Danielle Riverin-Simard (2004), Dr. Armelle Spain (2005), Dr. Kris Magnusson (2006), Kristine McGhee (2007), Michel Turcotte (2008), Margie Layden-Oreto (2009), Sharon Graham (2010), Dr. Charles Bujold (2010), Bill Borgen (2011), Gray Poehnell (2012).


The nomination deadline for the Stu Conger award is November 30th.


For more information about the award, go to www.ccdf.ca.


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