Beyond Election Day: Turning Campaign Experience into Career Clarity
3-Part Workshop Series + Coaching Labs for the VA Coordinated Team
When the campaign ends, what comes next?
Campaign work demands everything: energy, conviction, stamina, and heart. When it’s over, it’s normal to feel both proud and uncertain (and countless more feelings). Beyond Election Day was created as a space to pause, reflect, and begin to reconnect with yourself and what’s next.
Wherever you are in your process - exhausted, invigorated, empty, unsure - you are welcome here. There’s no need to have it all figured out. This series is meant to support you as a starting place, it’s a supportive container for reflection, insight, and clarity as you transition into your next chapter.
Who It’s For
Campaign and field staff, managers, and organizers seeking to turn their campaign experience into a foundation for meaningful next steps in politics, advocacy, or leadership.
Core Outcomes
By the end of the series, you’ll:
Make meaning of your experience - consider ways to reboot your nervous system, reflect on what just happened, and imagine your next chapter.
Integrate feedback with self-reflection to build clarity about areas of strength and growth.
Craft and share your leadership story, connecting campaign experience and learning to future opportunities and goals.
Program Snapshot
Format: Three 90-minute virtual workshops + two optional 90-minute group coaching labs.
You’ll Receive:
A digital Participant Guide with reflection worksheets and storytelling tools.
Practical exercises to map your growth, refine your goals, and articulate your story.
A supportive space to connect with your sense of purpose and possibility, and to practice telling your leadership story.
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Objective: Reflect on your campaign experience and begin to imagine what’s next.
What We’ll Do: Start to think about rebooting your nervous system, map your campaign journey, and begin to articulate lessons learned and future hopes.
You don’t need to have distance or perspective yet. This is the space to start making meaning. -
Objective: Integrate your reflections with the feedback you’ve gathered to clarify your leadership strengths and growth areas.
What We’ll Do: Compare your self-assessment with insights from others, identify patterns, and practice talking about your strengths and areas for growth with confidence.
You may still be processing . That’s to be expected. This is about noticing and naming, not perfecting. -
Objective: Craft a clear, authentic story about your experience that connects where you’ve been to where you’re going next.
What We’ll Do: Synthesize your reflections into a leadership narrative, practice storytelling, and work on how you talk about your experience in professional settings.
Your story is a work in progress. -
Lab 1: Unfinished Business
Bring your questions or drafts for live coaching and peer reflection so that together we can clarify strengths, growth edges, and story flow.
Lab 2: Interview Practice
Practice real interview questions in live rounds with feedback using the Clarity / Confidence / Connection rubric, followed by optional group reflection.