Story-Based Learning Methodology

WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes

The WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes approach helps you explore, understand, and align your professional and personal choices with what truly matters most. Through insightful self-questions and effective self-feedback, you develop the core capabilities of self-directing (choosing your path), self-coaching (supporting your growth), and ultimately self-leadership (guiding your life and work with intention).

Each programme builds practical skills to recognise your strengths, assess your challenges, and uncover meaningful solutions — supporting personal and professional development as you move forward with confidence and direction.

Five Collections

Self-Discovery Programme Collection

Empower yourself by identifying a path aligned with your core values, purpose, vision, and motivated abilities.

Book Club Books Programme Collection

Embrace learning through fiction and non-fiction, and apply those lessons to real-life situations.

The Art of WorkLife Storytelling Programme Collection

Find, develop, and tell the right story at the right time in all WorkLife situations, in a meaningful and compelling way.

Enhance Your Character Traits Programme Collection

Develop your unique personal qualities to be as effective as possible in achieving what is important to you.

Good Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme Collection

Incorporate effective self-care practices into your daily routine to support everyday ebbs and flows and realise your potential.

What Makes These Programmes Different

These programmes are shaped by over 20 years of working with people navigating the realities of WorkLife — growth, uncertainty, responsibility, change, confidence, doubt, and decision-making at every stage of a working life.

Each WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programme is a self-directed digital programme.

Each programme offers a structured, story-based way to think more clearly about your working life, understand what is happening beneath the surface, and make choices that align with who you are and how you want to work.

You are guided through 20+ hours of structured work that you can return to whenever you need perspective, grounding, or a reliable way to work something through.

What Each Programme Includes

A Complete Learning Experience

• A story-based narrative (10+ chapters) grounded in real WorkLife situations
• 25+ guided reflection points connecting the story to your situation
• 25+ practical assignments for immediate application
• 10 in-depth exercises across for core development areas

Integrated Tools for Ongoing Use

• A Comprehensive Workbook with structured exercises
• A Quick-Start Guide for everyday orientation and practice
• An Emergency Toolkit for acute situations
• All frameworks, templates, and assessment tools used throughout the programme

A Foundation for Ongoing WorkLife Development

Each programme supports five core practices that strengthen how you navigate your WorkLife over time:

• Self-Awareness
• Observation
• Effective Self-Feedback
• Insightful Self-Questions
• Writing Your WorkLife Stories

Time Investment: 20+ hours of structured, guided work

Lifetime Access: One Investment, Ongoing Value

Return to these resources during transitions, challenges, times of uncertainty, or whenever you want to reconnect with clarity, direction, and purpose in your working life.

Professional Investment

Individual Programmes: £150

Each programme is a complete, self-contained professional development resource, designed for ongoing use across your WorkLife.

New programmes launch each month.

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