Create momentum & pursue your purpose
The Explore program is a tailored, independent group program for those who want to enhance their wellbeing, connect to their deep purpose and take action to pursue meaningful goals.
Do you want to move towards meaningful employment (whatever that means to you!) and connect with others online?
Are you:
- the partner/spouse of someone who currently works (or used to work) in the Australian Defence Force (ex-spouses and widows/widowers included)
- wanting to explore your next move (whether that is a job, a business, study or simply understanding your true purpose)
- imagining what life could look like if you had the chance to use your skills and talents every day
- excited or curious to see what opportunities are out there
- keen to meet other positive and supportive people who understand your experience and want to cheer you on?
Defence life can be exciting and bring massive challenges.
For partners of those serving, we know that Defence life can mean:
- disjointed careers and having to apply for new jobs every couple of years
- needing to ‘sell your skills’ all over again (despite you being incredibly talented)
- feeling like you need to justify career breaks to people that don’t understand Defence service
- feeling isolated as you’re constantly moving and having to leave family and friends behind
- the burden of caring for kids (and everyone else) usually falls on you
- more time spent on ‘life admin’, setting up new routines, meeting new people, signing up kids for sports… the list never ends…
- your ambitions or career takes a back seat behind your partner’s.
Defence life can offer challenges… Hello, no real control over your life! We’re determined to get into momentum to pursue what matters to you!
And yet…
You have a strong desire to do more. You want financial security (rightly so! We all do!).
You have ideas about a new, exciting career path. Business could be a way to go, or a more flexible job.
You’re curious and would love some time and a forward-looking action plan to get in momentum and make your own choices.
The Explore program is all about getting you on the front foot with your goals.
Our integrated, human-centred approach, draws on the professional principles, practices and modalities of: career development, learning and development, co-design, coaching and counselling. Our team will meet you where you’re at, enable you to reflect on your purpose and take practical action to pursue meaningful employment (how you define it) and a fulfilling life.
By joining Explore, you will:
- apply practical strategies to move you towards your objectives, even when time (and headspace!) is in short supply
- take practical action to gain clarity, improve your confidence and feel calm and in control (without needing to go on a long retreat away from everyone)
- rediscover joy and/or your individual purpose
- connect to generous, subsidised Defence and government programs and employment initiatives that you can tap into straight away
- be connected with a community of energised people who will get it
- go deep in one-to-one coaching with someone who has first-hand experience of the Defence lifestyle
- gain powerful self-knowledge, potentially re-mapping your personal and professional identity
- have access to a range of tools and resources that you can use now and forever, so you’ll walk away knowing you can manage your life, learning, work and transitions and move towards the future you want.
Join the Explore program to focus on what’s important to you and take steps to define success, focus on your wellbeing and take action.
In short: you’ll focus on what’s important to you and we’ll help you do it.
Explore will enable you to personally define success, focus on your physical and mental wellbeing, take practical action to feel calm and in control and make career-enhancing decisions.
How it works and what’s included
- weekly live, online sessions over 8 weeks focussing on key strategies and practices to set you up for success
- access to expert guest mentors who’ll guide you straight to what you need to know
- practical activities and resources so you can take action and learn
- detailed feedback, powerful 1:1 coaching and accountability
- masterclasses on key topics
- masterclasses on key topics, hosted in our online learning platform so you can undertake learning at your own pace.
Core topics
Intention-setting & defining what matters
Reflection practices and goals / intention-setting. Explore meaningful employment as part of your life and how you can start to define your desired pathway, considering your life and needs.
Self & strengths
We’ll go deep into self-awareness and mapping personal strengths and skills. We’ll also explore identity, creativity, and energy as important indicators of what we desire.
Wellbeing: the foundations
Wellbeing if fundamental. We’ll explore its connection to your family, career, joy and success. You’ll gain tools and skills that you can apply in all aspects of your life.
Essential services
Finance fundamentals, navigating government and community initiatives and service providers that can help you.
Emerging opportunities
How to navigate job/career data sources and hidden job markets. Tips to identify local opportunities.
Shining in the market
How to take practical steps to stand out and find what you want in the job market. Resume and LinkedIn essentials.
Professional networks & connections
Why professional networking and building authentic connections is critical. Where to look and what’s out there for you to engage with now.
Confidence, competencies & better decision-making
How to explain and enhance your competencies and make career enhancing decisions. Navigating common traps to achieving success.
Our promise to you
At Human Quotient Group, we take a human-focused, strengths-based approach to every program we offer. We focus on wellbeing, as a foundation, and create a growth promoting environment where you can form deep connections with others. We’ll help you explore your options and create a pathway that aligns with your values and goals. We’re uber focused on wellbeing and connection among spouses in the ADF/veteran community.
As a certified social enterprise and veteran family business, we created the Explore program to deliver what you need.
We’ve developed our program based on our experience of Defence life and transition, and what spouses/partners have told us they need. We’ve also delivered the Cowork Coplay program (our unique, face-to-face, wellbeing and career-focused program with child care) for more than 5 years, delivering benefits to partners and their families.
Program design and delivery team: Claire Harris, Ron Kovalcik, Tahlia Perry and Pamela Turner.
Ready to explore your next move?
If this sounds good to you and you want to be the first to know when we open the program for registrations,
enter your details below.
Please note: the number of participants is strictly limited.
Scholarships
Thanks to the generosity of our program sponsors, we’re able to offer a limited number of full scholarships to cover the cost of the program for eligible participants. If cost is a barrier, we encourage you to apply for a scholarship here (Google Form, will take 2 minutes to apply).