For Universities
The internal work students need before
they decide what to do.
Being In Between focuses on the deep identity work that most career services do not cover.
The Case for Coaching Students
Nearly two in five UK postgraduate students are uncertain about their future career direction.
Many students feel lost, stuck, or pressured by family to pursue a particular career path. Some are overwhelmed by their varied interests and unsure of how to decide. They crave time and guidance to reflect on their emergent identity and to intentionally craft a future career path.
This lack of clarity creates challenges for universities trying to assist with career placement. While traditional career counselling or mentoring can be effective for students with clear goals, coaching is better suited for self-reflection and exploration of identity. Unlike mentoring, there is very little advice or guidance; instead, coaching uses specific questioning techniques and thought-provoking prompts to help people find their own answers.
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Coaching has been established as a transformational tool in the business sector for corporate executives and leaders. It is inaccessible to most students due to the cost. But coaching would be a valuable asset to them.
Through Being In Between's Career Coaching course, students accelerate their process of self-discovery (including identifying strengths, values, and passions), generate and evaluate career options, create a personal narrative, gain confidence in uncertainty, and determine a plan for after their graduation. Students leave with the tools and confidence to make more informed decisions about their next steps.
The Career Coaching course consists of highly interactive group sessions. Self-discovery exercises enable students to explore their thoughts and feelings in depth. The course is engaging, fun, and provocative.
"This class truly shaped the way I'm thinking about my life."
Anon
Student course participant
Course Contents
Customised to your students and their needs
Purpose and Identity
01
Your unique approach and career journey
Shatter the myth of the linear life, identify personal values, and recognise hidden strengths.
Passions and Ideation
02
Discovering what you might love to do
Discover authentic passions, including those that might have been overlooked, and expand the set of possible career pathways.
Money and Conditioning
03
Separating who you are from what others expect of you
Understand the impact of family and societal pressures, including the relationship with success, money, and productivity.
Ideation
04
Exploring what might be possible
Treat uncertainty as an invitation to experiment. Learn how to discover unknown-unknowns, envision possibilities that couldn't have been predicted, and challenge previous conceptions of post-graduation plans.
Experimentation
05
Moving from thinking to doing
Learn how to manage choice overload and to connect with intuition. Design small, low-stakes experiments that generate enough information to make decisions.
Fears and Resistance
06
Resolving challenging emotions
Strategies to respond to doubt, fear, resistance, and inner tensions: the self-protection mechanisms that can get in the way of pursuing dreams.
Direction
07
Bringing it all together
Ikigai, Hero's Journey, rituals, and practices to maintain changes set in motion.
What students say
In their own words.
— Student course participant
"I gained a deeper understanding of myself, my values, my aspirations, and the different possibilities available to me in life. These sessions challenged many of my existing assumptions and encouraged me to think about success, happiness, and personal growth from a completely different perspective.
Each session provided valuable lessons that I will continue to carry with me long after completing this course."
— Student course participant
"It was an amazing course that allowed me to understand what I want to pursue in the future.
It made me realise maybe life is not all about money but also happiness and community."
— Student course participant
"I hoped to get a bit of clarity on life... This course exceeded my expectations."
"This course is very important for those who are unclear about their goals."
Courses, talks, and training
Help students with the questions they really need answered.
Students don't just need career advice. They need help understanding who they are, separate from family expectations and assumed paths. Being In Between gives them a structured framework for that internal work — so that they can choose what to do post-graduation with intentionality.
01
Group coaching course
Multi-week taught course for university and post-graduate students.
02
Workshops & talks
Intensive single-session formats for professional development sessions, orientation week, careers fairs, and alumni events.
03
Workbook and Exercises
Licensed materials your career services can make available to students.
04
Training
Equip your team with exercises and frameworks for identity-led career work.
Work Together
Rigorous methodology. Human delivery
