Outline: 

• Dreyfus Model provides a progression of skill acquisition along a continuum from novice standing to expert status. As practitioners, whatever their field, enhance their competence, they increase their range of capability and expand their vision of their role. 
  • After nearly two decades teaching and leading in different levels of the education systems, I enjoyed the confidence that my hard-earned proficiency permitted. 
  • Pivoted to role as a lecturer in a university and a fledgling researcher
• What nobody prepared me for was the disorientation caused by feeling like a novice all over again in my late thirties after having a high level of accomplishment in my previous role
  • What was so unsettling about the experience? 
    • Skills and knowledge to be acquired
    • No track record
    • Limited network/mentoring for the new skills set  
    • Getting in your own way/in your own head
    • Making sense of the vastness of the research world
    • Imposter syndrome
    • Conscious incompetence
  • How to overcome it
    • Strategies
    • Habits 
    • Mindset
    • Resources