Let's Get to Work 2020: We are Going Virtual
Manitoba Association for Career Development and RBC Future Launch invite you to the 2020 Virtual Let’s Get To Work Conference to be held on:
Friday, November 6, 2020
The Let's Get to Work Conference is Manitoba's only Career Development focused event dedicated to demographics, research, and current labour market trends.
The goal is to provide a solutions-focused space where the intersections between career development, employment, and education can be explored and a greater sense of shared responsibility can be found.
The event provides a vehicle for insightful discussion of Career Development, one which we hope will bring cutting-edge research and discussion annually to Manitoba.
Registration for Let's Get to Work 2020 via purchasing a membership is now closed. If you registered, please check your email for an event ticket. If you did not receive your ticket, please contact LGTW@macd-mb.org.
You have until Tues Nov 3 at 4:30 PM to register at Eventbrite.
Friday, November 6, 2020
The Let's Get to Work Conference is Manitoba's only Career Development focused event dedicated to demographics, research, and current labour market trends.
The goal is to provide a solutions-focused space where the intersections between career development, employment, and education can be explored and a greater sense of shared responsibility can be found.
The event provides a vehicle for insightful discussion of Career Development, one which we hope will bring cutting-edge research and discussion annually to Manitoba.
Registration for Let's Get to Work 2020 via purchasing a membership is now closed. If you registered, please check your email for an event ticket. If you did not receive your ticket, please contact LGTW@macd-mb.org.
You have until Tues Nov 3 at 4:30 PM to register at Eventbrite.
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Keynote Speaker: Seanna Quressette
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We are elated to announce Seanna Quressette, MEd, CCDP, as this year’s keynote speaker at the Virtual Let’s Get to Work conference. Seanna will share her knowledge on understand the impacts of COVID from a trauma perspective and provide tools practitioners can use in their practice. She will provide concrete strategies for engaging in trauma informed dialogues with career development clients and notes on the specific issues of addressing COVID trauma for both Career Development Practitioners and their clients.
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Seanna Quressette, MEd, CCDP, is a trained Trauma therapist with training in body-psychotherapy, who has over 30 years of experience in the career development sector. Seanna lives with PTSD and anxiety. Seanna has taught at Douglas College in the Career Development Practice programs for over 10 years, and is now the Coordinator of Continuing Education at Douglas College, responsible for the CDP Programs. Alongside her work with Douglas College, Seanna is the owner of Creating Intentional Change, Inc. In her private practice, Seanna works with clients who have experienced work-place based trauma and/or historical trauma that are impacting their ability to achieve their full potential in their careers. Seanna has worked with clients in private practice, in federally and provincially funded programs and through post-secondary education in rural, urban and Indigenous settings. Seanna brings to her work knowledge and expertise in both trauma work and career development and a flair for facilitation both online and in person. |
Second Keynote Speaker: Sheila North
Sheila North is a mother, daughter, filmmaker, and former award-winning journalist. She is also the former MKO Grand Chief and currently a strong Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) Advocate In 2018 she ran for the position of National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations on a platform of reforms that would have positioned Indigenous peoples for a better tomorrow. Sheila is a former CTV journalist and documentarist, and was nominated for a Gemini Award as a CBC journalist. As a filmmaker, Sheila released a documentary, 1200+, about missing and murdered Indigenous women girls (MMIWG) featured on CTV in 2019. In addition, as a Cree host, she has been voicing episodes of Taken, a series about MMIW, for APTN and CBC. Sheila seeks to build bridges between people in order to advance and promote safety and prosperity for all.