Are you exploring a new direction, navigating a transition, or addressing the question of ‘what comes next’? It’s not unusual to have periods of feeling stuck, unsure of your direction, or unclear about how to get where you’d like to be.

I am a Registered Social Worker (MSW, RSW) with a PhD in Healthy Ageing. I specialize in supporting people through periods of change and uncertainty, and I design and teach courses and workshops on navigating career, retirement, and midlife transitions. My courses offer a solution-focused, practical, and interactive approach to gaining a clear sense of direction, successfully moving through life transitions, and 'figuring things out'.

My approach is informed and guided by my background in social work, research, and education, as well as training in design thinking through the Stanford University Life Design Lab, and career development through the Western Canada Career Development Association.

Former clients say they have experienced important shifts in the way they navigate transitions and build more joyful and meaningful careers, retirements, and lives.

GETTING STARTED

Please reach out to learn more about courses, workshops, and individual sessions being offered both online and in person to: Heather@heatherlhopkins.com

As a Registered Social Worker with the British Columbia College of Social Workers, my services may be covered by your extended health or employment benefits.

PLEASE JOIN ME IN 2025 FOR AN ONLINE OR IN PERSON COURSE!

Regenerative Life Design, September 2025 - May 2026, online.

Design Your Midlife, September 2025 - May 2026, online

Retirement by Design for Women, March - May 2026, Fairfield Gonzales Community Association, Victoria, BC, and online.

COURSES & WORKSHOPS

REGENERATIVE LIFE DESIGN:
In this course, you will learn the ideas, principles, and strategies for gaining a clear sense of direction and building the career and life you envision for yourself. Rather than worrying, wondering, and feeling ‘stuck’, you will figure out what a good life looks like to you, and actively begin designing and building it. As part of a small and supportive group, you will move forward with confidence and clarity, while strengthening accountability and commitment.

DESIGN YOUR RETIREMENT
Retirement can be a period of deep meaning, purpose, and connection. Many of us will have decades long retirements, but beyond financial planning, there are few resources, services, or supports to help us figure out how to create the retirement we would like.

This course is for those who would like to learn how to design and build a meaningful, enriching, and engaging retirement. Together with a small group, this experiential, practical, and collaborative course will guide and support you to figure out what a good retirement looks like to you, and actively begin building it.

DESIGN YOUR CREATIVE LIFE
Living life as an artist or creative can be deeply rewarding, joyful, and meaningful. It can also be challenging and isolating. There are often difficult and complex decisions to be made about your priorities and direction. With competing demands on your time and energy, you may feel the need to fulfill many diverse roles, often in isolation.

Design Your Creative Life is for aspiring, emerging, and professional artists and creatives. You may be exploring a new direction or idea, addressing the question of ‘what comes next?’, or wondering how to build the creative life you envision for yourself. You will learn to apply design thinking to figure out what a good creative life looks like to you, and actively begin to design and build it.

MASTERMIND GROUPS:
Mastermind groups are for those who have a clear sense of direction, and would like the opportunity to foster a meaningful and supportive connection with an inspiring community of peers.

INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS 

If you are wondering ‘what comes next’ or are feeling stuck, these individual 1 hour sessions provide you with the ideas, strategies, and tools you need to move forward with a clear sense of direction. We will work together to guide and challenge you to design a life of purpose, meaning, and joy.

Please reach out for more information and to arrange a free 10 minute consultation: Heather@heatherlhopkins.com.  

BLOG