The Work

Every journey toward self-awareness begins with curiosity …

From the outside … to the inside.

From what we’ve inherited … to what we’ve unconsciously repeated …

Until we gently begin to reconnect … with who we really are.

ICS

Implicit Career Search®

The Implicit Career Search® is about discovering more than what you can do — it helps you uncover what you are meant to contribute. Instead of beginning with job titles, résumés or traditional career matching, ICS starts with the person behind the career. It explores your behaviours, feelings, self-concept, values and sense of purpose so you can make decisions from a deeper understanding of who you are. The result is a career direction that feels more authentic, meaningful and connected to the life you want to create.

Through a guided process of self-discovery, participants identify what matters most to them, the kind of contribution they want to make, and the skills they need to bring that contribution to life. The program moves beyond the idea that career success is simply about security, income or eventually reaching retirement. Instead, it encourages people to see their career as an evolving journey — one that can grow through different stages of learning, leadership, expertise and creativity, while building toward a greater sense of purpose and legacy.

Most importantly, ICS turns insight into action. Participants create a personalized Career Development Profile with a clear vision, practical next steps and contingency plans, giving them a roadmap they can continue to adapt as their lives and goals change. It is not simply about finding the next job. It is about becoming clearer about who you are, where you want to go, and how your work can become a meaningful expression of that.

  • Dates: Sept. 11, 12, 13 & Sept. 25, 26, 27, 2026
  • Time: Friday, 6–9pm / Saturday, 9am–6pm / Sunday, 9am–5pm
  • Total Length: 40 hours (20 hours each weekend)
  • Location: St. Paul’s Anglican Church, 29 Church Street, Nanaimo
  • Investment: $500
  • Maximum Participants: 12 persons
THE

The Human Element®

The Human Element® (THE), developed by Will Schutz, is fundamentally a process for increasing self-awareness and understanding human behaviour and relationships. At its heart is the premise that greater awareness and truth about ourselves give us greater choice. It explores how we behave toward others and want others to behave toward us, the feelings underneath those behaviours, and ultimately the self-concept from which both arise. Its FIRO framework examines the interpersonal dimensions of Inclusion, Control and Openness, while deeper work examines feelings such as significance, competence and likeability and the beliefs we hold about ourselves.

The goal of THE is therefore not specifically to create a career plan. Its reach is broader: helping people understand themselves, become less defensive and more open, take greater personal responsibility, improve relationships, and make more conscious choices about how they live and work. ICS incorporates elements of this FIRO/Human Element work as part of its inner journey: the Hero’s Journey model is used here for career development. One way to distinguish them is: THE helps us discover and understand the person we are being; ICS uses that kind of discovery to help us decide what we want to do with our lives and work — and then create a plan for doing it.

Please be in touch with Marcia to book this.
1:1

Life Design Coaching

One-on-one coaching, tailored to where you are and what you’re working through.

  • $250/hour — short time frame (minimum 3 sessions)
  • 6-month program — $800/month (once a week), payment plan available
  • Emergency one-time session — $400/hour

Stories can be rewritten. So can we.

Who This Is For

Is this a fit?

I am not, fundamentally, a coach who tells people what they should do next. I am a coach who helps people become curious about the assumptions, stories and meanings that have shaped who they believe themselves to be — and then discover whether those things are true.

My work begins with self-awareness rather than advice. I create the conditions in which people can look at themselves with greater openness, question old interpretations without having to condemn their past, recognize the choices they have now, and reconnect with parts of themselves that may have been forgotten, hidden or set aside. From that deeper understanding, I help them ask not simply “What should I do?” but “Who am I? What matters to me? Am I contributing what I want to contribute to the world?” And “What might I create from here?” My role is less about supplying answers than helping people uncover the wisdom, possibility and capacity for choice that are already theirs.

THE is deeply concerned with who I am.

ICS asks what I will do with who I am.

And Life Design is the larger container that holds both.

Not sure which is right for you?

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