Hope-Filled Engagement: New Possibilities in Life/Career Counselling, a sequel to the popular Active Engagement by Dr. Norman Amundson, addresses the increasing diversity and complexity that life/career practitioners encounter in working with multi-barriered clients. It seeks to create an environment of hope for people, focusing on tools and processes that combine a wholistic worldview (including creativity, spirituality, connectedness, values, and life balance) with sound contemporary career concepts. It is a person-centered, solution-focused, hope-focused approach that engages people where they are engaged with life and that equips them to walk their life/career paths with dignity whatever the challenge.
"In Hope-Filled Engagement, Gray and Norm offer exceptional insight, inspiration and a wealth of practical tools and interventions. This book is a treasure, drawing on their personal and professional journeys toward hope to illuminate possible pathways for crafting our careers. It is intimate, extremely thought-provoking, creative, compelling and utterly engaging."
Sareena Hopkins, Co-executive Director
Canadian Career Development Foundation
"This is an authentic book. The reader knows with certainty that the concepts and approaches are grounded in lived experience and profound reflection. This is an honest book which acknowledges that opportunity is not created equal and possibilities are not infinite. This is a creative book with inspired ways of helping individuals to generate hope in their life/career paths. This book oozes integrity and practicality. What a combination and what a contribution! Lynne Bezanson, Co-executive Director, Canadian Career Development Foundation."
Lynne Bezanson, Co-executive Director
Canadian Career Development Foundation
“Hope-filled Engagement offers an approach that fits well within an Aboriginal perspective because it respects and honours our ways of including community in our decision making processes and also incorporates story telling in a way that is positive and helps individuals see a new vision for their future. Aboriginal people will be helped to take the journey into the world of work because the practical applications found in this resource can be used immediately and with confidence by employment coaches, educators, and human resource managers. As someone who has been blessed to have learned from, and worked with Gray over the years, this book brilliantly shows us his spirit of teaching; I commend him on putting together Hope-filled Engagement in a way that connects to the reader on a personal level so you do not realize you are reading a book, but rather you feel that you are in a conversation with him.”
Trina Bučko, National Director, Organizational Inclusion Strategies
Aboriginal Human Resource Council of Canada
“Hope-Filled Engagement is the next evolution in career development theory. This book is like having Gray with you as a coach while you motivate and engage young people in their career life path. The activities, many which we have utilized as part of our Guiding Circles Training for teachers, are not only creative, relevant, and fun, but more importantly they work! Thanks Gray for sharing an amazing journey of hope!
Multi-culturalism for us is – diversity – our work needs to be culturally sensitive after the term cultural proficient/ or proficiency - and the latest would be culturally sensitive and relevant pedegogy.”
Lorna McPherson, Guidance Program Coordinator
Toronto District School Board
"The book contains in equal measure imagination, new ways of imagining the process of career, creativity, thinking outside the box with the belief that things can be done better by more people and finally optimism, a spiritual connection to bringing about the change we want to see in the world.”
Linda Farrington, City Campus Leader
Tasmanian Department Of Education, Learning Services North, Australia
"In Hope-Filled Engagement, Gray and Norm offer exceptional insight, inspiration and a wealth of practical tools and interventions. This book is a treasure, drawing on their personal and professional journeys toward hope to illuminate possible pathways for crafting our careers. It is intimate, extremely thought-provoking, creative, compelling and utterly engaging."
Sareena Hopkins, Co-executive Director
Canadian Career Development Foundation
"This is an authentic book. The reader knows with certainty that the concepts and approaches are grounded in lived experience and profound reflection. This is an honest book which acknowledges that opportunity is not created equal and possibilities are not infinite. This is a creative book with inspired ways of helping individuals to generate hope in their life/career paths. This book oozes integrity and practicality. What a combination and what a contribution! Lynne Bezanson, Co-executive Director, Canadian Career Development Foundation."
Lynne Bezanson, Co-executive Director
Canadian Career Development Foundation
“Hope-filled Engagement offers an approach that fits well within an Aboriginal perspective because it respects and honours our ways of including community in our decision making processes and also incorporates story telling in a way that is positive and helps individuals see a new vision for their future. Aboriginal people will be helped to take the journey into the world of work because the practical applications found in this resource can be used immediately and with confidence by employment coaches, educators, and human resource managers. As someone who has been blessed to have learned from, and worked with Gray over the years, this book brilliantly shows us his spirit of teaching; I commend him on putting together Hope-filled Engagement in a way that connects to the reader on a personal level so you do not realize you are reading a book, but rather you feel that you are in a conversation with him.”
Trina Bučko, National Director, Organizational Inclusion Strategies
Aboriginal Human Resource Council of Canada
“Hope-Filled Engagement is the next evolution in career development theory. This book is like having Gray with you as a coach while you motivate and engage young people in their career life path. The activities, many which we have utilized as part of our Guiding Circles Training for teachers, are not only creative, relevant, and fun, but more importantly they work! Thanks Gray for sharing an amazing journey of hope!
Multi-culturalism for us is – diversity – our work needs to be culturally sensitive after the term cultural proficient/ or proficiency - and the latest would be culturally sensitive and relevant pedegogy.”
Lorna McPherson, Guidance Program Coordinator
Toronto District School Board
"The book contains in equal measure imagination, new ways of imagining the process of career, creativity, thinking outside the box with the belief that things can be done better by more people and finally optimism, a spiritual connection to bringing about the change we want to see in the world.”
Linda Farrington, City Campus Leader
Tasmanian Department Of Education, Learning Services North, Australia
