From Fear to Focus: Navigating Your Next Move After a Layoff

From Fear to Focus: Navigating Your Next Move After a Layoff is an Adaptive Leadership professional development gathering for those facing a layoff or concerned about one at their newsroom, held virtually April 14, 2026, 12:00–1:00 PM EDT on Zoom (link in confirmation email); registration is available. Journalist and Career River creator Bridget Thoreson draws on interviews with 150+ professionals and training more than 1,900 people in 106 countries to share Career River strategies for navigating career uncertainty and crisis, turning concern into clarity, and approaching the job hunt as a data-driven experiment rather than a roller coaster of rejection. Her 30-minute presentation precedes optional small-group discussions to share concerns and practice a new framework, facilitated by Monique O. Madan, Co-Lead Storytelling Advisor at the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and Principal at The Madan Creative Group, and Dustin Block, Director of Portfolio Growth at BlueLena.

Hosted with: Psychedelic Writers Guild