Finding Your Next Direction

This interactive online course is designed for individuals navigating career change, job transitions, or life crossroads, and who are seeking clarity, direction, and a renewed sense of purpose.

Drawing inspiration from the Ikigai lens, alongside transition coaching practices, this course helps participants understand how their strengths, motivations, values, and real-world opportunities intersect. Rather than treating Ikigai as a rigid framework, it is used as a practical and human tool to support decision-making during periods of uncertainty.

Participants are guided step-by-step to reconnect with what matters to them, identify realistic paths forward, and create a grounded action plan for their next phase.

What You Will Learn

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand their personal strengths and natural abilities
• Clarify what motivates and energizes them at this stage of life
• Reflect on values, meaning, and purpose using the Ikigai lens
• Identify career or life opportunities that align with who they are
• Make clearer, more confident transition decisions
• Create a personal “Next Direction Blueprint” to guide future actions

Topics Covered

The course explores the four core elements often associated with Ikigai, framed in a practical and modern way:

• Strengths and capabilities
• Motivation, values, and meaning
• Skills, experience, and contribution
• Opportunities, roles, and real-world needs

Additional themes include:

• Navigating uncertainty and identity shifts
• Letting go of outdated career narratives
• Making grounded decisions during transition
• Designing a realistic and meaningful next step

Course Structure

The course consists of 4 live online sessions, each lasting 45 minutes to one hour.

Each session builds progressively:

1. Understanding Where You Are Now
2. Exploring your current transition and life context
3. Clarifying What Drives You
4. Strengths, values, motivation, and meaning through the Ikigai lens
5. Exploring Opportunities That Fit You
6. Connecting your strengths and motivations with real-world possibilities
7. Designing Your Next Direction Blueprint
8. Decision-making, prioritization, and action planning

Between sessions, participants complete guided reflection exercises and practical homework to deepen their learning.

Delivery Method

This is a live, interactive online course, not a pre-recorded program.

Sessions include:

• Guided reflection and coaching prompts
• Visual mapping and structured worksheets
• Small group breakout discussions
• Practical exercises for clarity and decision-making
• Step-by-step guidance toward a personal action plan

Participants receive tools and templates to support learning beyond the sessions.

Teaching Style

The teaching approach is supportive, reflective, and practical.

Rather than prescribing answers, the course encourages inquiry and self-discovery, supported by clear structure and grounded guidance. Participants are invited to explore their own experiences, while being challenged gently to move from reflection into action.

The environment is respectful, warm, and psychologically safe, with an emphasis on real-life application rather than theory.

Participant Interaction

Participants engage through:

• Live guided exercises
• Group discussions and breakout rooms
• Personal reflection worksheets
• Homework tasks between sessions
• Facilitated sharing and feedback during sessions

Optional one-to-one coaching support may be offered after the course for those who want deeper, personalized guidance.