Centerpoint Institute | the space to find yourself

offering lifelong tools to navigate uncertainty, build meaningful careers, and design courageous lives

Summer Week-Long Passion Search Workshop Added!

To celebrate the coming of the sun, we’ve added a week-long Passion Search Workshop to our summer schedule! Register Now!

Is it time to finally figure out who you want to be when you grow up?

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 09:04

Then attend one of our Free Orientations to learn about how the career process really works and see if Centerpoint is the right place for you to get the support you need. Here is our on-going orientation schedule: [Read More]

Our Mission

offering lifelong tools to navigate uncertainty, build meaningful careers, and design courageous lives

Founded in 1992, Centerpoint Institute for Life and Career Renewal is an educational, nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the way we live and work…because life isn’t linear! We offer workshops, resources, and support to guide you and your employees through any stage of the career process including:

Navigating the confusing terrain of life and career changes and transitions
Uncovering your passions and what you want to do “when you grow up”—or for your next career
Helping with your job search including brushing up your networking skills and learning creative job hunting techniques
Sharing strategies for effective, on-going career management

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May through August 2012 Workshops Are Online!

It’s time to create a life you love! The second trimester schedule is here! Or, view it in calendar form here.

Resume Tips

Submitted by Sandy Formento on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 16:20

Here’s a great story with some very useful tips that you can use if you’re job hunting!

One of our recent clients, Phil Austin, after attending our LifeWork Renewal workshop and a few Job Resource Clinics, soon found himself on “the other side of the table” at his new job: reviewing resumes for another open position within his company! Reviewing over 200 resumes gave Phil a very different perspective of resume writing than that that he had just months prior. He wanted to share some of his new insights and tips with all of you (in his own words!): [Read More]

LifeWork Renewal

Reevaluate, Re-Energize, and Renew Your Life and Career

“Happiness requires an ability to tolerate uncertainty.” –Gordon Livingston, MD
How would you like to not just tolerate it, but actually thrive in uncertainty and change?

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Centerpoint’s Reach Grows!

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 12:46

Centerpoint’s unique approach to career counseling is being offered to more and more clients nationally and globally through individual telephone counseling appointments. Our individual Passion Search process can also be conducted via the telephone. Tell your out-of-town family, friends and associates that we can help them, too, navigate change and discover their purpose! Contact us today to schedule an appointment and get started! P.S. Evening and Saturday hours are possible too!

Congratulations Carol!

Submitted by Lisa Tucker on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 15:22

Centerpoint would like to congratulate our Founder, Carol Vecchio, for being a recipient of the 2010 National Career Development Association’s Outstanding Career Practitioner Award for her contributions to the field! We are so happy she received this well-deserved recognition for all of her life-changing work here!

Life (Part 2)

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 13:02

Wow… our own Carol Vecchio is on national TV! Watch the PBS Life (Part 2) Series episode on Purpose Prize winners here.

WATCH THE VIDEO: Living Well at any Age!

Submitted by Lisa Tucker on Fri, 08/28/2009 - 15:05

Don’t Miss This! Carol Vecchio was a panelist for CityClub’s luncheon event called "The Art of Living Well at Any Age" on Tuesday August 18th. Registration: 11:30am, program: Noon. Registered guests of Centerpoint, a co-presenting organization, received a discount! Learn more!

Update: You can watch the video of this event here.

PODCAST: Conducting a Creative Job Search

Submitted by Brandon Lundh on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 13:37

As a gift to our Centerpoint community, we are making the recording of our recent Career Forum Conducting a Creative Job Search, available for free in the form of a podcast. Typically, recordings of our Career Forums are available only to Centerpoint Members and paid Career Forum attendees, but we feel that this information is especially helpful to job seekers at this time. Please feel free to use the buttons below to share this post, or use the email link to send it to anyone you think would find it useful. [Read More]