Life Navigation Lab

Life Navigation Lab

Plan your journey…

Navigating your way to life beyond work

If you’re unsure about what’s next when you leave work, you’re not alone! You may know this transition as ‘retirement’. Let us help you rethink it as a whole new beginning!

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What you’ll get and do!

Life Beyond Work course

Your kickstart for life beyond work

Our award-winning Life Beyond Work program will equip you to:

  • Identify strengths and skills for life beyond work
  • Create a sense of purpose aligned to your unique values
  • Build new connections and identify new opportunities
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Thinking tools

Explore your options at your own pace

Our self-guided ‘thinking tools’ are bite-size resources to help you plan for a long life! Covering topics like wellbeing, mindsets, purpose, motivation and decision-making, you can access and reuse the tools for many years to come. Our thinking tools will help you to:

  • Gain personalised insights
  • Go at your own pace and fit around your life
  • Curate your own personal growth journey

Ongoing support

Stay on course

Following your 4-week course you’ll have the opportunity to discuss what you’re learning in our monthly office hours, access other curated content and connect with peers also exploring their next steps.

  • Build accountability and keep up momentum
  • Access other career transition content to support your journey
  • Learn from others’ experiences and share your own

“At the Life Beyond Work sessions I discovered it wasn’t just me who was feeling a bit lost and disappointed with the retirement experience. I came away with more understanding of what I needed to do to make my retirement a success.”

Stephen Merrett
Life Beyond Work program participant and peer convenor

“I'm a different person now to the person who did the retirement transition course. I completed the original course 8 years ago and still use the concepts we explored. They provide insight into life and help balance the challenges and opportunities that come after leaving work.”

Greg O’Connell
Former course participant

“I learnt to be kind to myself as I change gears in my career. I learnt to listen and respect my story as I progress to the next chapter in my journey of life. I enjoyed the course immensely. The weekly activities gave you an opportunity to reflect and add tiny habits into your week.”

Margaret, SA
Life Beyond Work participant

“Like any major period of change in one’s life, it can feel scary, unsettling and stressful. Life Beyond Work is a shared experience that empowers participants to become ‘transition champions.’”

Chris, Ballarat
Life Beyond Work participant and peer convenor

“Thank you for your team’s excellent Life Beyond Work course […] The tiny actions have already begun to increase my sense of achievement rather than being overwhelmed by all that I haven’t yet had time to do!”

Mike, City of Salisbury Council
Life Beyond Work course participant

“I continue to review my notes, reflect on the learning and complete exercises to see if my mindset has changed. I don't feel the need to retire now when it doesn't suit me. Also, I don't feel as worried about how my retirement will develop when it occurs.”

Alexandrea Cannon OAM
Career Transition Lab member

“I am so enthusiastic now about my next career transition and am feeling so confident!”

Pete Macfarlane
Life Beyond Work participant & peer convenor

“I look forward to all Life Navigation Lab offerings. Living in a rural area, it's a great way to connect online with other curious, like-minded individuals. I always learn something new and Mel is a wonderful facilitator of great conversations.”

Fiona H
Life Beyond Work participant

Mel Lambert

Our lead coach

Mel Lambert is our founder and head coach in Life Navigation Lab. A qualified coach with certification from the International Coaching Federation and the Tiny Habits® Academy, plus Prosci change management certification and years of experience as a human-centred design practitioner, Mel is well-equipped to support your decision-making at every turning point in your lifelong career journey.

That’s the official bit.

Behind the qualifications, Mel has faced her fair share of decisions, doubts, deliberations and dilemmas in her own career! Having lived and worked in the UK, Europe and Australia, working in not-for-profit, public and private enterprises, she has a tonne of lived experience in navigating her own career path, complete with roadblocks and relocations, stops and starts, loss and rebuilding of networks – and confidence – along the way.

Throughout this journey Mel has applied her professional practice as a designer, coach and change manager to her own life, and now through Life Navigation Lab, you can draw on it too!

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Start planning your life beyond work

Unlock your next steps

Curated resources, a live course and an active, supportive community to guide your successful transition to ‘life beyond work’ and more!

  • 4-week facilitated online course
  • Downloadable resources
  • Monthly check-ins
  • Access to other resources and peer opportunities

$150-$295 for course + 6 months support

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