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Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Building a sustainable career when you have ME/CFS
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MECFS Canterbury
120 views 17 Dec 2024
Liz Wagenvoort, from Resolve Consultancy, talks with us about the challenge of finding appropriate work when you live with chronic illness such as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and long COVID.
She discusses the reasons why we work, the challenge in finding employers who can accommodate our need for flexibility and possible adjustment of tasks, and provides a set of reflective questions to help us identify work that may be sustainable to us.
Following the meeting, Liz provided a handout with some ideas for home-based businesses that may highlight an idea that would work for you (see Additional Resources section below). ____________________________
ABOUT LIZ WAGENVOORT
Liz is the Director of Resolve Consultancy and has a Master of Science in work psychology. She is passionate about helping people with chronic fatigue-related health conditions to find accommodations and approaches that enable them to continue working - if their functional capacity allows this.
She offers a unique background of lived experience with chronic illness, working experience as a corporate professional, and evidence-based practice as a science practitioner. which informs her approach to problem-solving and the creation of solutions.
Slides
Read Liz’s script for the slide presentation
MECFS Canterbury
120 views 17 Dec 2024
Liz Wagenvoort, from Resolve Consultancy, talks with us about the challenge of finding appropriate work when you live with chronic illness such as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and long COVID.
She discusses the reasons why we work, the challenge in finding employers who can accommodate our need for flexibility and possible adjustment of tasks, and provides a set of reflective questions to help us identify work that may be sustainable to us.
Following the meeting, Liz provided a handout with some ideas for home-based businesses that may highlight an idea that would work for you (see Additional Resources section below). ____________________________
ABOUT LIZ WAGENVOORT
Liz is the Director of Resolve Consultancy and has a Master of Science in work psychology. She is passionate about helping people with chronic fatigue-related health conditions to find accommodations and approaches that enable them to continue working - if their functional capacity allows this.
She offers a unique background of lived experience with chronic illness, working experience as a corporate professional, and evidence-based practice as a science practitioner. which informs her approach to problem-solving and the creation of solutions.
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