What’s Happening at School of WorkLife
This is where you’ll find School of WorkLife News-announcements, programme launches, and updates about what’s happening at School of WorkLife. From new programme releases to special offers, and upcoming developments—this space keeps you informed about the latest resources, opportunities, and ways to engage with story-based professional development.
Professional Development Question Bank Collection
For Coaches, Facilitators and Leaders
Insightful Resources Supporting Every School of WorkLife Professional Development Programme
I’ve created a new resource for coaches, facilitators, and leaders — a collection of question banks, each containing 200+ ready-to-use questions designed to open, deepen, and guide meaningful conversations across every School of WorkLife Professional Development Programme topic.
Self-Discovery Question Banks (15 resources)
Values (5 resources)
- Values Alignment Career Transition Guide: Navigating change through values clarity
- Creative Values: Overcoming creative challenges to navigate back to your authentic voice
- Workplace Values: Navigating career decision making to make choices aligned with what matters
- The Hidden Value: Uncovering what truly matters to find fulfilment when success feels incomplete
- Values in Collision: Finding harmony in conflicting values during challenging times
Purpose (2 resources)
- Discovering or Rediscovering Purpose: Exploring what truly matters through deep reflection
- Purpose Reconnection: Rediscovery and Renewal transformation through reconnection with inner purpose
Vision and Motivated Abilities (2 resources)
- Vision and Motivated Abilities: Recognising what energises and engages you
- Synergy Through Challenges: Leveraging Vision and Motivated Abilities and applying natural strengths strategically
WorkLife Truth (2 resources)
- Live Your Professional Truth: Recognising authentic self-presentation and identity
- Recognise Your WorkLife Truth and Strengths: Overcoming self-doubt
Personal and Professional Brand Identity (2 resources)
- Navigate Your True Personal Brand Identity: Recognising your authentic identity and distinctive presence
- Reclaim Your True Personal Brand Identity: Exploring fragmented self, wholeness and Integrated Identity
Self-Awareness (2 resources)
- The Pause Before Applause for self-Awareness: Navigating recognition with authenticity
- Future Self Letters for Self-Awareness: Accessing wisdom across time
Storytelling (4 resources)
- The Art of First Impressions Storytelling: Mastering opening lines that captivate audiences
- The Art of WorkLife Storytelling: Crafting Success, Failure, and Passion stories
- The Art of Origin Story Crafting: Finding superpowers and crafting powerful origin stories
- The Power of Personal Artefacts Storytelling: Discovering how meaningful possessions, shape, inform and inspire WorkLife stories
Character Traits (4 resources)
- The Longest Way Round: Embracing natural traits through storytelling
- The Salt of the Earth: Following a journey of character through service and community morale
- Exploring Parts Unknown: Embracing cultural heritage and curiosity through a journey of character
- Heroes Within: Discovering character traits through graphic narratives
Book Club Books (4 resources)
- The Power of Fiction: Developing character traits through reading fiction
- The Power of Non-Fiction: Developing connections and building community through narratives
- The Four Powers of Mental Time Travel: Developing perspective and temporal intelligence through reading and journalling
- The Classic Literature Book Club: Exploring themed learning through classic novels
Mental Health & Wellbeing (4 resources)
- Connect Happiness To Mental Wellbeing: Exploring joy, laughter, and connection
- Take Care of Your Wellbeing: Finding balance when personal crisis meets professional responsibility
- Honour Your Tipping Point for Mental Wellbeing: Recognising anxiety, boundaries, and knowing when to walk away
- Protect Your Creativity and Wellbeing: Navigating depletion, sustainable practice and creative capacity
Why These Question Banks?
Each resource provides:
- 200+ questions organised by professional development purpose
- 8+ essential conversation frameworks per topic
- Questions that invite exploration and help people discover their own clarity
- Guidance on when and how to use each question effectively
- Standalone value whilst connecting to deeper course content
Who the Question Banks Are For:
- Coaches seeking powerful questions for client sessions
- Facilitators leading workshops or group discussions
- Leaders having development conversations with team members
- Anyone supporting others through professional growth and authentic development
The Approach:
Each question bank is specifically designed for its topic, grounded in the belief that stories are powerful mechanisms for teaching, learning, and communicating authentic professional development. The questions work with each person’s own experiences and narratives — drawing out the stories they’re already living, helping them recognise what those stories reveal, and guiding them toward the insight and understanding that only emerges when someone is genuinely heard and thoughtfully asked the right question at the right moment.
How to Use Them:
- Choose questions matching where someone is in their professional development journey
- Allow silence after asking—transformation requires reflection
- Listen for genuine resonance versus intellectual exercise
- Follow threads of authentic insight rather than moving systematically
- Return to questions across multiple sessions as understanding deepens
Professional Investment :
£15 per question bank
One-time purchase. Unlimited professional use in individual and group settings.
Explore the full collection: School of WorkLife Professional Development Question Banks
Introducing the Professional Storytelling Organisational Programme
School of WorkLife is introducing a new flagship organisational learning experience: The Professional Storytelling Organisational Programme.
This three-day programme is designed to strengthen professional communication, leadership presence, and career development conversations through structured, authentic storytelling.
Participants craft their three fundamental work stories — their Success, Failure, and Passion narratives — and shape them into compelling professional stories with clear beginnings, engaging middles, and memorable endings. The programme works directly with each individual’s real experiences, helping professionals communicate their value with greater clarity and confidence.
In many ways, this programme reflects a return to the origins of this work, which began with a workshop in Ireland where storytelling helped participants rediscover their professional identity and confidence.
The programme is designed for delivery within organisations and partner contexts, supported by comprehensive facilitator materials and participant resources.
Please get in touch about partnership or organisational enquiries.
Contact: carmel@schoolofworklife.com
Learn more:
The Professional Storytelling Organisational Programme
A New Professional Rate Across All WorkLife Compass Programmes
School of WorkLife continues to grow as a body of work shaped by more than 20 years of supporting people through the realities of their WorkLife—growth, uncertainty, responsibility, change, confidence, doubt, and decision-making at every stage.
There are now 33 WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes available across five core collections:
Self-Discovery Programme Collection
Identify a path aligned with your core values, purpose, vision, and motivated abilities.
Book Club Books Programme Collection
Learn through fiction and non-fiction, and apply those lessons to real WorkLife situations.
The Art of WorkLife Storytelling Programme Collection
Find, develop and tell the right story at the right time in all WorkLife situations, in meaningful and compelling ways.
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.
Each programme is a self-directed digital learning experience, offering more than 20 hours of structured, story-based work. Through guided reflections, practical assignments, in-depth exercises, and integrated tools, the programmes support people in developing the core capabilities of self-direction, self-coaching, and self-leadership.
These are complete, self-contained professional development resources you can return to whenever you need clarity, direction, or perspective in your working life.
Professional Investment
Usual professional investment:
£95 per programme
Current professional rate:
£45 per programme
This arrangement supports the wider introduction of the programmes while maintaining fair value for individuals, organisations, and the creator.
This invitation is open to:
• Individuals investing in their own WorkLife development
• Organisations investing in their people
Explore All Programmes: WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes
New programmes continue to launch each month across the five collections.
January 2026: Five New WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes
School of WorkLife launchd five professional development programmes in January 2026—each exploring critical professional development themes through character-driven narratives and structured self-reflection, creating actionable learning that moves from story to practice, and from insight to lived change.
The Collection:
The Classic Literature Book Club: Learning Through Themed Reading Five professionals discover how reading diverse classic books around shared themes creates understanding no single book could provide. Through The Great Gatsby, The Bell Jar, To the Lighthouse, The Secret Garden, and On the Road, the group explores identity, belonging, boundaries, relationships, and internal understanding—then transforms insights into distinctive professional practices.
Honour Your Tipping Point for Mental Wellbeing: Recognising When to Leave and What to Move Towards Nellie’s story reveals how anxiety serves as vital information about wellbeing at risk. When a professional body that seemed perfect on paper becomes mounting stress before every email, her journey demonstrates the courage required to walk away—and how honouring tipping points transforms relationships with work, community, and self.
Protect Your Creativity and Wellbeing: Understanding Depletion and Creating Sustainable Practice Felix’s narrative explores how dedication to meaningful creative work can quietly transform into destructive obsession. Through physical collapse and the slow rebuilding of walking practice, the programme demonstrates that sustainable creative success requires maintaining the basic conditions that make excellent work possible over decades.
Remove the Mask to Live Your Truth in WorkLife: From Hidden Identity to Values-Aligned Work Mary’s experience as Chief Financial Officer who achieves success whilst keeping her passions carefully hidden reveals how professional self-presentation can become limiting self-concealment. Her journey demonstrates that revealing your whole truth—including unconventional interests and experiences—creates the alignment that makes meaningful career transitions possible.
Overcome Self-Doubt by Recognising Your WorkLife Truth and Strengths: From Silent Concerns to Confident Curiosity Roger’s story follows a successful founder who takes his company public then begins questioning whether he’s the right person to run his own business. Surrounded by corporate jargon he doesn’t understand, he discovers his curiosity and questions aren’t deficits to hide—they’re the distinctive strengths that built his success.
What All Programmes Include:
Complete narrative journey structured in three parts: Discovery, Development, Direction
Comprehensive Workbook for deep exploration
Quick-Start Guide for immediate application
Emergency Toolkit for challenging moments
Five core practices: Self-Awareness, Observation, Effective Self-Feedback, Insightful Self-Questions, Writing Your WorkLife Stories
Time Investment: 20+ hours of structured, guided work per programme
Professional Investment:
Individual Programmes: £95
Each programme is a complete, self-contained professional development resource, designed for ongoing use across your WorkLife.
Grounded in Real WorkLife
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.
The Methodology:
Each programme is build around story-based learning—following professionals through authentic WorkLife challenges—interwoven with frameworks, reflection points, and guided assignments that help learners apply insights to their own journeys. All resources strengthen how you choose your direction (self-directing), support yourself along the way (self-coaching), and meaningfully lead your WorkLife (self-leadership).
Explore All programmes: WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes
Explore Newsletter Stories:The Storytelling Newsletter — free stories and extracts, with Story Lessons available for deeper learning.
When Five Different Books Reveal the Same Truth
Five professionals. Five classic books. Each chose something completely different to read.
Jasmine picked The Great Gatsby because she was drawn to stories about ambition and belonging.
Noah chose The Bell Jar because he needed to understand pressure and authenticity.
Selena selected To the Lighthouse because she was searching for creative clarity.
Alessio reached for The Secret Garden because he was navigating renewal after loss.
Cali grabbed On the Road because she wanted to reclaim passionate experience.
The Unexpected Discovery?
These five seemingly unrelated books—written in different decades, set in different countries, featuring completely different characters—all explored the same themes from different angles.
Identity. Belonging. Boundaries. Relationships. Internal understanding.
Each book approached these themes differently. But together, they created understanding no single book could provide.
The Classic Literature Book Club: Learning Through Themed Reading How Diverse Literary Choices Reveal Personal WorkLife Journeys
This programme, which launched this week, explores something powerful: reading multiple diverse books around shared themes creates breakthrough understanding that reading any single book—no matter how brilliant—cannot.
What Makes This Approach Different:
Themed learning offers a distinctive approach: each person chooses a different book exploring shared professional themes. Then the group discovers patterns, connections, and insights that emerge when diverse narratives illuminate the same questions from different angles.
It’s the difference between analysing one painting deeply versus bringing different artworks that explore the same human experience and discovering what they reveal together. The collective wisdom multiplies.”
The Programme Explores:
The Themed Learning Framework: Seven steps for reading diverse books around shared themes—from theme selection through cross-pollination to practical application. How to choose books that bring different perspectives. How to discover patterns across narratives. How to translate insights into workplace practice.
Five Professionals, Five Books, One Discovery: Complete narrative following Jasmine, Noah, Selena, Alessio, and Cali through seven weeks of reading and discussion. How their different books illuminated identity, belonging, boundaries, relationships, and internal experience. How insights from all five books combined transformed each person’s professional practice.
From Individual Insight to Collective Wisdom: How each member created their own application—Transformation Circles, online communities, creative methodologies, garden-based learning, immersive sound experiences. How the same foundational practice produced diverse professional applications.
Practical Tools for Your Themed Learning: The Theme Navigator for beginning. The Cross-Pollination Chart for discovering connections. The Application Cycle for sustainable practice. Complete workbook with exercises for mapping themes, selecting diverse books, and creating workplace applications.
Programme Investment: £95 for lifetime access
Time Investment: 20+ hours of structured, guided work
Lifetime Access: Return to this programme whenever you want to develop themed learning practices, during career transitions when you need diverse perspectives, when leading book clubs or learning communities, or when seeking breakthrough understanding that single narratives cannot provide.
This programme shows you how themed learning works through the experience of five professionals discovering patterns across their diverse reading selections that create understanding that serves WorkLife challenges.
Available Now
The Classic Literature Book Club: Learning Through Themed Reading
Tomorrow: 2026 Begins
As 2025 closes, The Storytelling Newsletter continues its rhythm—stories every Tuesday —-exploring the WorkLife challenges we all navigate: transitions, boundaries, purpose, capability, wellbeing.
What Begins Tomorrow Is a Year of Focused Growth and Continued Consistent Creation
Starting January 1st, 2026
A new WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programme from the Book Club Books collection launches, exploring how reading classic literature develops the professional insights and capabilities we need in our WorkLife.
Throughout 2026: New programmes publish every month, growing the library to 50+ comprehensive resources across five collections.
These programmes represent distilled wisdom from 20+ years as a WorkLife professional development practitioner and writer, working with professionals navigating real WorkLife challenges. Each comprehensive programme gives you 20+ hours of structured, guided work that you can revisit throughout your working life whenever you need clarity, deeper understanding, or practical frameworks for navigating professional challenges.
Programme Investment: £95
Time Investment: 20+ hours of structured, guided work
Lifetime access. One Investment, Ongoing Value
Return to these programmes during career transitions, workplace challenges, moments of uncertainty, or whenever you need structured guidance to navigate your WorkLife with clarity and purpose.
Explore All Programmes: WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes
January
The Storytelling Room Newsletter
Free stories every Tuesday Subscribe to receive weekly narratives exploring WorkLife challenges.
Story Lessons (£10 each) Each free story has a complete Story Lesson available — for those who want to go further with structured learning they can return to as their thinking develops.
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What Continues
The foundational belief that stories are our most powerful mechanism for teaching, learning, and communicating authentic identity.
The commitment to creating comprehensive resources for people who learn through narrative.
The focus on helping professionals navigate their WorkLife journeys with clarity, purpose, passion, and pride.
Tomorrow, 2026 begins.
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For People Who Learn Through Stories
School of WorkLife serves professionals who learn through narrative.
You Might Connect With This Approach If:
You enjoy exploring ideas through character-driven stories.
You appreciate professional development that uses real workplace situations to illustrate concepts.
You find that stories help you remember and apply what you learn.
You value having resources you can revisit as your career evolves.
You’re building ongoing professional capabilities, developing your understanding over time.
You believe that understanding human experiences deepens professional insight.
If this resonates with how you learn, these resources are designed for you.
What School of WorkLife Offers
The Storytelling Newsletter
Free Weekly Stories The Storytelling Newsletter delivers free narratives every Tuesday exploring WorkLife challenges. Stories give you space to think, reflect, and connect concepts to your own experiences naturally.
Story Lessons (£10 each) Each free story has a complete Story Lesson available — for those who want to go further with structured learning they can return to as their thinking develops.
Subscribe to the Storytelling Newsletter
WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes: Five Collections
24 comprehensive programmes across five collections provide 20+ hours of structured work on specific topics: Self-Discovery, WorkLife Storytelling, Character Traits, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Book Club Books.
New programmes publish every month throughout 2026.
Substantial resources support deep engagement with topics that matter to your professional development.
Explore All Programmes: WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes
The Approach
Every resource is grounded in the belief that stories are our most powerful mechanism for teaching, learning, and communicating authentic identity.
Through character-driven narratives, you explore WorkLife challenges—understanding motivations, recognising patterns, developing insight for your own professional development and decisions.
The reflection points, assignments, and exercises help you bridge from narrative insight to practical application. The learning starts with story.
If you learn through narrative, these resources are designed for your approach.
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Three Ways to Learn Through Stories in 2026
School of WorkLife is built on one foundational belief: stories are our most powerful mechanism for teaching, learning, and communicating authentic identity.
Whether you’re just discovering this work or you’ve been following for a while, there are three ways to continue to engage with story-based professional development in 2026. Choose the approach that serves your learning style, current needs, and professional goals.
1. Free Weekly Stories: The Storytelling Newsletter
Free narratives delivered every Tuesday exploring WorkLife challenges — giving you space to think, reflect, and connect the insights to your own working life.
Best for: Anyone who values narrative approaches to learning and wants regular, accessible professional development resources.
Subscribe to The Storytelling Newsletter
2. Deeper EngagementStory Lessons
Each free story has a complete Story Lesson available (£10 each) — for those who want to go further with structured learning they can return to as their thinking develops.
Best for: People who want ongoing, affordable professional development with structured guidance for applying story insights to their own WorkLife.
Explore the Story Lessons Collections
3. WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes: Five Collections
For focused, intensive learning on specific topics, comprehensive guided professional programmes from the WorkLife Compass Collections provide 20+ hours of structured, guided work you’ll revisit throughout your working life.
Each programme includes:
- Character-driven narrative (10+ chapters)
- Guided workbook with practical exercises
- Frameworks and tools for ongoing use
- Lifetime access
Five Collections:
Self-Discovery: Understanding your values, purpose, and authentic path
WorkLife Storytelling: Crafting and communicating your professional narrative
Character Traits: Developing essential professional capabilities
Mental Health & Wellbeing: Maintaining professional wellbeing
Book Club Books: Learning through fiction and non-fiction
Programme Investment: £95
Time Investment: 20+ hours of structured, guided work
Lifetime access. One investment, Ongoing Value
Return to these programmes during career transitions, workplace challenges, moments of uncertainty, or whenever you need structured guidance.
24 programmes available now. New programmes publish every month throughout 2026.
Best for: Professionals ready to invest in comprehensive, self-directed professional development on specific topics. Those who want structured guidance with lifetime access to resources they’ll use repeatedly.
Explore All Programmes: WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes
Which Approach Is Right for You?
If you’re exploring story-based learning: Start with the free newsletter. See if this approach resonates.
If you want to go deeper with any story: Explore the complete Story Lesson — a structured learning experience you can return to as your thinking develops.
If you’re ready for focused intensive work: Invest in a comprehensive programme on the topic most relevant to your current challenges.
You can combine approaches. Many people read the free weekly stories, explore individual Story Lessons for deeper learning, and work through complete programmes on topics that matter most to them.
The goal is the same across all three: helping you navigate your WorkLife journey with clarity, purpose, passion, and pride through the power of story-based learning.
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Coming January 1st: The Classic Literature Book Club
The first programme of 2026 launches in three days—exploring how reading classic literature through themed learning develops professional insight and capabilities.
The Classic Literature Book Club: Learning Through Themed Reading Diverse Literary Choices Reveal Personal WorkLife Journeys
This comprehensive programme follows five professionals in Shoreditch who form a book club with a distinctive approach: inspired by Dinah Fried’s Fictitious Dishes, which pairs meals with classic literature, each member chooses a different classic book to read and brings food that connects to their selection.
What begins as an experiment in making reading more engaging evolves into a powerful discovery: reading diverse classic books around shared themes creates understanding no single book could provide.
The Five Members and Their Books:
- Jasmine (project coordinator) The Great Gatsby – exploring contradictions, belonging, and breaking into closed societies
- Noah (graphic designer) The Bell Jar – navigating mental wellbeing and authentic identity under pressure
- Selena (art director) To the Lighthouse – understanding relationships, change, and creative clarity
- Alessio (landscape architect) The Secret Garden – discovering renewal, transformation, and healing through nature
- Cali (sound engineer) On the Road – seeking passionate experiences and presence versus constant motion
Shared Themes Across All Five Books: Through seven weeks of weekly meetings over simple shared meals, the group discovers their seemingly different books all explore the same themes from different angles: identity, belonging, boundaries, relationships, and internal understanding.
A year later, each has transformed their professional practice—Jasmine created a “Transformation Circle” at her agency, Noah launched a “Books That See You” community, Selena developed “Presence Mapping” methodology for documentary filmmaking, Alessio created “Plot-to-Plate” garden workshops, and Cali began “Sound & Story Sessions” combining literature with immersive soundscapes.
What The Programme Includes:
Complete Narrative Journey:
- Part One: Discovery (The Invitation and unexpected connections)
- Part Two: Development (Weekly meetings exploring each book deeply)
- Part Three: Direction (How insights transformed into diverse practices)
- Five Truths (One insight from each member)
- Three Artefacts (Practical tools that emerged)
The Themed Learning Framework: Seven steps for reading diverse books around shared themes, with guidance on theme selection, book diversity, personal connection, cross-pollination, and practical application.
Comprehensive Workbook: Structured exercises for mapping your themed learning landscape, selecting diverse books, discovering connections, designing workplace applications, and creating sustainable practice.
Three Practical Tools:
- Themed Learning Workbook (for deep exploration)
- Themed Quick-Start Guide (for rapid application)
- Themed Learning Emergency Toolkit (for crisis navigation)
Programme Investment: £150 for lifetime access
Time Investment: 20+ hours of structured, guided work
Lifetime Access: Return to this programme whenever you need clarity about how diverse reading creates professional breakthrough, during career transitions when you’re seeking new perspectives, or when you want to develop themed learning practices for yourself or others.
This programme teaches the methodology—how to read multiple diverse books around your professional themes to discover patterns no single book could reveal. Whether you’re navigating career transitions, developing leadership capabilities, or seeking deeper professional understanding, themed learning offers a sustainable approach to continuous development through reading.
Launches January 1st, 2026
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Why Stories Matter for Professional Development
Stories are how humans have always made sense of complex experiences.
Long before frameworks and methodologies, we learned through narrative. We understood motivations by following characters through their choices. We developed wisdom by experiencing consequences vicariously. We built empathy by seeing the world from perspectives different from our own.
This Isn’t Just About Engagement—It’s About How We Actually Process and Retain Information.
When you read about a character facing a difficult decision, you’re not just observing from the outside. You’re experiencing their internal conflict, understanding the pressures they face, recognising the patterns that lead to their choices. You develop insights about human behaviour that no list of tips could ever provide.
This is Why School of WorkLife is Built Entirely on Story-Based Learning.
Every programme uses character-driven narratives to explore professional challenges. Realistic stories where characters navigate situations you will face in in some manner in your own WorkLife.
Through these narratives, you develop:
- Deeper understanding of motivations that drive workplace behaviour
- Practical empathy that transforms professional relationships
- Pattern recognition that helps you navigate your own challenges
- Memorable frameworks that stick because they’re embedded in story
The reflection points, assignments, and exercises that follow each story help you bridge from narrative insight to practical application in your own WorkLife. The learning starts with story—because that’s how people naturally understand human experiences.
The most powerful professional development comes from understanding the why behind the what.
That understanding comes from story.
The Storytelling Newsletter
Free weekly stories exploring WorkLife challenges through character-driven narrative, with individual Story Lessons available for deeper learning
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The WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes
24 comprehensive programmes across five collections, each built on story-based learning methodology. New programmes publish every month throughout 2026.
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What’s Been Happening Behind the Scenes at School of WorkLife:
The Storytelling Newsletter
For the past several months, I’ve been sharing weekly stories—narratives that explore real WorkLife challenges through character-driven learning.
24 stories published so far. Each one draws from the comprehensive professional programmes I’ve developed over the past year.
These weekly newsletter stories introduce concepts and frameworks from:
The WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes
24 comprehensive programmes across five collections:
- Self-Discovery
- WorkLife Storytelling
- Book Club Books
- Character Traits
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
What’s Happening in January 2026:
The Storytelling Newsletter continues every Tuesday
Subscribe to receive weekly free stories exploring WorkLife challenges with paid Story Lessons available for deeper engagement.
The WorkLife Compass Guided Professional Programmes
24 already available, with new programmes launching every month throughout 2026.
These programmes represent distilled wisdom from 20+ years as a WorkLife professional development practitioner and writer, working with professionals navigating real WorkLife challenges. Each comprehensive programme gives you 20+ hours of structured, guided work that you can revisit throughout your working life whenever you need clarity, deeper understanding, or practical frameworks for navigating professional challenges.
Each programme includes:
- Character-driven narrative (10+ chapters)
- Guided workbook with practical exercises
- Frameworks and tools for ongoing use
- Lifetime access to revisit throughout your career
Programme Investment: £95
Time Investment: 15-20+ hours of structured, guided work
Lifetime access. One investment, Ongoing Value
Return to these programmes during career transitions, workplace challenges, moments of uncertainty, or whenever you need structured guidance to navigate your WorkLife with clarity and purpose.
Starting January 1st: A new Book Club Books programme launches.
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