Surviving The Gap is a series of workshops designed to help you navigate the emotional challenges of job hunting. Whether you are between jobs or looking to move in a new direction, these workshops offer a safe space to consider your well-being and to explore tools to help you boost your resilience.

The purpose of the workshop is to give you the opportunity to spend some time thinking about what you could be doing to more easily navigate this phase of your life.

This workshop is for people who feel they would benefit from some support and guidance on how to survive the emotional drain of being between jobs or seeking new employment opportunities.

The event is also an opportunity to meet other people who understand the situation and are interested in helping themselves and each other to navigate their current situation.

This second workshop in the series builds on the first. However, it’s not essential to have completed workshop 1 as this workshop starts with a recap. During this workshop we will:

• Conduct a short review of what we covered in workshop 1
• Expand our self-awareness and take some time to identify some of the things that cause stress and upset
• Identify and practice some techniques that may help participants to stay calm for longer when faced with the current – and any future -challenges.

Our lead coach, Funke is a passionate Learning and Organisational Development Specialist with many years’ experience in large multi-site public and voluntary sector organisations including children’s charities, local government, education establishments and the NHS.

A life, career, and relationship coach, Funke is a qualified EFT and NLP practitioner in additional to holding a BA, MSc, PGCE and being a full member of the CIPD.

Mark is a passionate advocate for personal growth and development with over thirty years’ experience helping individuals and organisations flourish.

Mark holds a BSc in Geophysics, an MSc in Management Consultancy and Organisational Change and is a member of the Institute of Leadership. He has undertaken training in EFT and NLP and is working towards accreditation in those fields.