Career Transition For Dancers Announces Free Workshops, 3/6

Career Transition For Dancers is presenting its National Outreach Project in Austin, Texas on Saturday, March 6, 2010. The free workshops are for pre-professionals, students, current and former professional dancers, college students, teachers and choreographers. Career Transition For Dancers' mission is to enable dancers to define their career possibilities and develop the skills necessary to excel in a variety of disciplines.

Saturday, March 6, at Ballet Austin's Butler Dance Education Center 501 West 3rd Street Austin, TX 78701 will be the Community Workshop from 1pm-3pm. One-on-one career counseling appointments will be from 3:30-5pm; available on a first come-first served basis. Refreshments will be served. Please contact Kaylen Ratto, Client Outreach Coordinator at Career Transition For Dancers via email at kratto@careertransition.org or 212-764-0172, ext 232 to RSVP. Please mention if you are also interested in a 30 minute, one-on-one session with a counselor after the workshop. The workshops are facilitated by Suzie Jary, MSW, LCSW, CP; and Paulette Fried, MSW, NCCC - Career Counselors.

The workshops examine the key components of the career change process. The sessions provide basic tools for making a successful transition, including understanding the emotional side of career change; defining interests, skills, and values; identifying transferable skills; as well as researching new career options; and connecting with resources for career exploration, which can include educational scholarships and grants. Also presented are the emotional and practical aspects of career development while you are still dancing and in preparation for your life after dance. Individual career counseling sessions discuss dealing with change and staying motivated in the transition process.

CTFD extends it sincere thanks for the facilities courtesy of Ballet Austin; and in particular to the funding from generous grants by the Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Sponsored by Dance Magazine and Pointe.

Celebrating its Silver Anniversary, Career Transition For Dancers has worked to enable dancers to define their career possibilities and develop skills necessary to excel in a variety of disciplines for 25 years. With of fices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and a mobile National Outreach Project, the organization has provided over 43,000 hours of individual and group counseling, with a dollar value of over $4 million and awarded over $3.7 million in educational and entrepreneurial grants. Outside of the or ganization's 4,300 active clients, the organization has helped thousands of dancers in 47 states take their first steps towards discovering reward ing post-performance careers. The Caroline & Theodore Newhouse Center for Dancers is at 165 West 46th Street Suite 701 (at Broadway: the Actors' Equity Building) NYC. The phone number is 212 764 0172 and the fax is 212 764 0343; our offices in Los Angeles 323 549 6660; and in Chicago 312 666 0234. To learn more about the organization and interact with some of the services it provides online, please visit www.careertransition.org.

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