We have been able to secure a no-cost training opportunity for student veterans to be offered at Edmonds Community College on January 22 from 8-12:00. Dependable Strengths (DS) was created by Bernard Haldane who worked extensively to help military personnel back in 1945 transition from military to civilian life. The Dependable Strengths Articulation Process has since become part of the alumni placement process for the Harvard Business School and has been taught around the world in China, South Africa, South Korea, Japan, and England with college and university students, k-12 system, prisons and prisoners, major corporations and employees, unemployed workers and the list goes on. Haldane, now deceased, has a quote that best summarizes the work:
“Because you’re unique, there’s something you are better at than anybody else. You have a unique pattern of Dependable Strengths…when you know the core skills of your pattern, you have power over how they are developed, combined, and applied. Then you gain job security, resilience, employability, focused energy, new possibilities and more.”
While the training typically occurs over a 2 day period, this training consists of an initial four hour session followed by another if participants want one one. The cost is usually around $750 for the full training and the trainers also bill something like $600/day. The DS crew wants to honor the service of our vets and this training is at no cost to them. So far there are 10 enrolled for the class with a maximum of 20.
All those interested should contact Peter Schmidt at peter.schmidt@edcc.edu
