The Metropolitan Area Career/Life Planning Network invites you to:

Hand-Me-Down Dreams: Integrating Family
Influences into Career Counseling & Coaching

By Mary Jacobsen, author of Hand-Me-Down Dreams: How Families Influence Our Career Paths

How does each generation teach the next about work? How does what parents think they are teaching differ from what children actually learn? And how do these early family lessons show up in an individual's later career development?

Mary Jacobsen, uses concepts from family systems theory to describe how family expectations about work are passed on to each new generation -- often in subtle and indirect ways that disguise the family's influence and make it difficult to detect and alter. These inherited aspirations -- or "hand-me-down dreams" -- affect not only career selection, but also relationships and behavior on the job. Mary draws from family histories that she has encountered in her coaching and therapy practice as well as workshops she has led on this topic over the past eight years. Participants will learn four "systemic" interventions to use with individual clients. Format includes case examples, Q&A, and an interactive exercise in pairs using a family history interview protocol.

DATE:
Friday, April 16, 2004

TIME:
8:30 AM - 9:15 ---- Registration and Networking
9:15 AM - Noon ---- Program

PLACE:
The George Washington University Marvin Center
800 21st St NW
Cafritz Conference Center, Room 308
Washington DC

COST:
$25 in advance and $30 at the door.
Make check payable to MAC/LPN

Must Be Received By Friday, April 9, 2004

REGISTER EARLY

CLICK HERE FOR THE REQUIRED REGISTRATION FORM (Please print this form and mail to:

Susan Waters
1930 Powhatan Street
Falls Church, VA 22043
Must Be Received By Tuesday, December 2, 2003

QUESTIONS: Contact Susan Waters at 703-241-2620.

MAC/LPN thanks The George Washington University Career Center for sponsoring our use of university space.

DIRECTIONS

By Metro: Take Blue Line towards Franconia-Springfield, or the Orange Line towards Vienna. Exit at the stop marked "Foggy Bottom-GW. You will be at 23rd and I Streets. Cross 23rd Street, and continue walking on I Street approximately two blocks. Turn right onto 21st Street. The Marvin Center will be on your right on 21st Street Between H and I Streets. Go up to Room 308.

By Car
FROM NORTH: Take I-95 South to I-495 (Capital Beltway) toward Silver Spring. Take exit 33, heading south on Connecticut Ave. for about 9 miles. Turn right onto Florida Avenue (just past the Washington Hilton) and turn left immediately onto 21st. Street and proceed through thick traffic to the GW campus. Turn right onto H Street. The entrance to the parking garage is on the right between 21st and 22nd Streets. In center take elevator up to 308.

PARKING: The Marvin Center Garage does not have reserved parking for people attending events. If it is full, try the University Visitor's Parking Garage on I (Eye) Street between 22nd and 23rd Streets. Parking is $11 for two hours and $13 after the second hour.

Individuals needing transportation may want to use their MAC/LPN Directory to locate others from their area with whom to carpool.