February 2025 Café Breakout Room Topics (you will be able to select your room during the café):

• TOPIC 1: What does MCDA do well?
• TOPIC 2: What ideas do you have to grow membership?
• TOPIC 3: What ideas do you have to grow leadership?

This is a FREE event and open to all! However, we encourage you to become a member of MCDA to support this and other programs that promote professional development for career practitioners. 

A Zoom link will be provided upon registration and sent directly to your email. Please use that link to join the career café!

If you are interested in supporting our Career Cafés as a Career Café Coordinator, please contact Amy Jaffe at [email protected] or Ashley Bigda at [email protected]. 

4th NEC (New England Consortium-NCDA State CDAs) Virtual Conference with Keynote, Presentations, Round Tables and 4 NCDA CEs. Topics for all NEC, NCDA & Interested Stakeholders.

Thursday, March 20, 9am-1pm (4 CE Credits from NCDA)
Virtual Event zoom link will be sent to registrants ahead of the event
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This NEC Conference will allow participants to engage with ideas and discussions that focus on one 25-minute Keynote that includes a 5-minute Q&A with our Keynote presenter, two 40-minute Presentation choices, and two of four 45-minute Round Table Presentations/Discussions that are repeated as seen in the NEC Activity Timeline provided below.

Keynote: 

Applying Hope-Action to Jungian Perspective of Change: Helping Clients Thrive, with Dr. Skip Niles, former President, National Career Development Association

Presentation 1: 

Bring It On!: How to Face Change, Challenge, and Uncertainty with Courage, Confidence, and Optimism with David Lee, Maine

Presentation 2:

From Idea to Action: A More Centered Self with Julie Palazini & Colleen Wheeler,

Rhode Island

Round Table Sessions 1:

1. Dr. Jonique Childs: Building First-Generation Students of Color (FGSC) Resilient Career Practices Using the Bridge to Thriving Framework© (BtTF©)

2. Erica Mattison: Strategies to Thrive, Encourage Career Clarity & Increase Motivation

3. Pam Kristan: Where Has All the Time gone?

4. Dr. Skip Niles: Hope-filled Strategies for Navigating Change

Round Table Sessions 2:

1. Erica Mattison: Strategies to Thrive, Encourage Career Clarity & Increase Motivation

2. Pam Kristan: Where Has All the Time gone?

3. Dr. Skip Niles: Hope-filled Strategies for Navigating Change

4. David Lee. Further Discussion from Bring It On!: How to Face Change, Challenge, and Uncertainty with Courage, Confidence, and Optimism

Click here for detailed descriptions and speaker bios