My relocation is now complete, and I am in my new home in Athens, GA, though not completely unpacked. Glad to be back online! I am ready to dive in full-time to this new adventure.
Besides all the moving-related stuff (buying a house, selling the old one, packing, unpacking, frequent trips to Goodwill, etc.), I have been meeting with my first round of clients. So far, I really enjoy the interactions I’ve been having, and it’s really neat to see people start to set goals for their lives and careers, and to see them make some progress.
Though I do miss State College and Penn State, I haven’t really missed my old job yet. I guess I really haven’t had the time, but if I have, then I’ve filled it with excitement about my new path as a life and career coach. I will be back to blogging about collegiate life transitions, student development, and related issues, and developing this blog as an informational resource.
By January, I will have hopefully completed my certification requirements, and my goal is to have 10-15 paying clients by the end of March, and to be ready to offer workshops, in-person and online, to help incoming college students and their parents ready themselves for the life transitions that come with college.
Stay tuned as well for new editions of “A Different Kind of Freshman 15″ and the ongoing series about college student development theory. The next installment of that series will cover the subject “moving through autonomy toward interdependence,” and explore ways that college students can become more autonomous, how parents can support them in achieving more autonomy, and finally, how students and parents can meet each other at the other end as fully-functioning adults, who appreciate and support each other in healthy ways, and honor the rights of the other to be their own people.
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Sean Cook has 15 years of experience working in Higher Education, as a Student Affairs Professional. He is a Certified Life and Career Coach through the Life Purpose Institute, a program accredited by the International Coach Federation. Sean also writes about career issues in higher education for our companion site, HigherEdCareerCoach.com and is a periodic contributor to the Student Affairs Collaborative Blog.
