Location: Virtual (a Zoom link will be sent to you a few days before the event)
Date: Thursday, January 22nd, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm EST
Event Description
In October we gathered to talk with each other about how we are doing and how we are feeling about our work these days. Previous attendance at the October event is not required to attend this session.
Join this CCC Roundtable where we will
- Take up where we left off; and build on the themes we heard and the prompts we offered.
Felt Experience
“What does it feel like to do this work right now? What’s alive in you as you hold space for clients in this climate?
Shifting Ground
“What are you no longer sure you believe about this work or the systems you’re in? What assumptions or maps feel shaky or outdated?”
- Introduce a model to listen for what’s stirring beneath the surface and guide us toward relief and regeneration (https://www.wayfindingdeck.com).
- Consider the impact we can have and what our work can mean as we focus on how we are “being”.
This Roundtable is designed to create a space to acknowledge where we are, share what we as career professionals are going through, and ground ourselves as we do our work.
Thank you to the CCC for providing these opportunities for all who wish to participate. We are in this together.
Presenter Biographies
Michele Martin is the founder of The Bamboo Project, where she bridges over two decades of experience in career and workforce development with a present-day focus on way-finding—supporting individuals and organizations in navigating transition, uncertainty, and emergence with presence, creativity, and care.
A Certified Career Development Instructor, Michele has worked extensively with national and state workforce systems, including the U.S. Department of Labor, Job Corps, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, and local workforce agencies in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Her expertise spans training, program design, and organizational and leadership development, with a focus on helping job seekers, solopreneurs, and frontline professionals adapt to an ever-changing world of work.
She is the author of several Heldrich Center briefs on workforce strategy and systems reform, including the Strategically Virtual series on delivering effective career services online. She also previously directed the Center’s New Start Career Network, a comprehensive initiative supporting job seekers over the age of 45 who had been unemployed for six months or more.
Today, Michele’s work turns toward the deeper questions beneath change, inviting a new relationship to uncertainty—not as something to fix or control, but as a space to listen, attune, and move with what is emerging. Through her facilitation, teaching, and the creation of the Wayfinding Deck, she supports individuals and teams in stepping out of default responses and into regenerative practice.
Michele continues to facilitate Leadership Delaware County and the Youth Leadership Academy for the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce. Her work—past and present—reflects a steady commitment to helping people and organizations find their way by grounding in clarity, sovereignty, and aliveness, especially in times of great change. She sees wayfinding as an essential practice for career professionals and clients alike, especially in a world where traditional maps no longer match the terrain.
Amy Mazur is a Career Development Specialist and Counselor Educator who has been working in the field for over 20 years. Amy assists individuals to begin, renew and advance their careers, and her relational approach helps clients to overcome obstacles, real or imagined, that may inhibit them at any point in the career planning and job search process. Through assessment, counseling, managing transitions and exploring realistic options, Amy assists individuals to reflect on the meaning of work and how they want it represented in their lives, and is committed to recognizing how contexts and systems in which clients locate themselves are critical to understanding how an individual develops beliefs and generates options.
In addition to her individual and group counseling, Amy trains, supervises, and mentors career and workforce development professionals locally, regionally, and nationally on using counseling skills to foster growth and change. Serving on the Coach Advisory Committee at the Institute of Career Transitions, and as Project Coordinator of the Work Intervention Network (WIN), Amy’s continues to forefront the effect that psychosocial/emotional and systemic factors have on those navigating a job search/career transition.
Prior to her current work, Amy was Lead Career Counselor at JVS for over 18 years. She was Career Counselor/Assistant Director of Career Services at the Women’s Educational & Industrial Union. Amy developed and coordinated the Professional Development Seminars Series for the Career Counselors’ Consortium. And as adjunct faculty at Lesley University’s Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, Amy taught Vocational Development & Career Counseling for over ten years, and guest lectured at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education.
Amy received her Master of Education from Harvard University in Counseling & Consulting Psychology, and her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Michigan. She is a National Board-Certified Counselor (NBCC) and is a member of the National Career Development Association (NCDA), the association from which she earned the Master Career Development Professional (MCDP) designation.
