Authenticity, Integrity and Virtue: The foundations of green guidance Dr Norman Amundson
Green guidance is more than an office recycling program. It challenges clients and career counsellors to anchor their identity in who they really are, to seek out their natural life patterns and to express their life / career values. Green guidance is relevant during the good times and during the bad times. This keynote address will explore what it means to apply green guidance principles to working life and to the process of helping clients.
The “Green New Deal" – the creation of green jobs for our future economy Mr Darren Bilsborough
This presentation will discuss the six sectors likely to generate the biggest transition in terms of economic returns; environmental sustainability and job creation in what the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) described as the Global Green New Deal:-
Energy Supply Alternatives
Buildings
Transportation
Basic Industry and Recycling
Food and Agriculture
Forestry
FEATURED SPEAKER / SEMINAR ABSTRACTS:
Wednesday 7April
Active Engagement in Action Dr Norman Amundson, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Canada
This presentation will outline some of the basic principles of active engagement also and illustrate some practical intervention strategies. The session will focus on storytelling (building a circle of strengths), questioning (a contextual interviewing process), and how to use metaphors in career guidance (using multiple images to expand understanding). The session will be interactive and will also include a demonstration. The activities have relevance to career counsellors working in a wide variety of settings.
Sustainable Careers – Counselling tools for building a greener future Nigel Phillips, CEO Careers Fastrack and Career Life College, Melbourne, Victoria
A graffiti slogan sprayed on the wall of a 5 star hotel in central Dhaka reads: “Finite Resources – Finite Growth.” As poignantly simple as this statement is, the truth of its impact upon our future is menacingly ominous. Ominous indeed, as our world financial systems balance on the brink of meltdown; environmental degradation threatens the world as we know it; poverty means that billions are without basic needs; and wars and terrorism continue to take life across the globe.
This workshop is based upon the premise that the biggest tragedy in this world is not all of these things, but instead the number of people who get up each day locked out of the ability to achieve their full potential.Imagine a world where people were able to identify, enter and progress in work opportunities that allowed them to continuously improve their contribution. When individuals can truly access sustainable careers would the ominous threats identified above continue to exist?
The role of the career development practitioner is now more critical than ever to help people to build sustainable career-life opportunities for themselves and hence, with human ingenuity, to address the significant problems we face.It is within this context that this workshop will present a methodology to assist practitioners working with clients at all career-life stages, to think more broadly about their role in assisting the holistic development of their clientele. Additionally, attendees will be exposed to and have an opportunity to practice a number of tools that will add significant value to help “unlock” human potential.You will leave this workshop equipped with a new paradigm and some career counselling tools that will give you the opportunity to tap into the “infinite possibility” that is human ingenuity to create sustainable careers and hence, a sustainable future unfettered by “finite” thinking.
What will delegates gain from attending your Seminar?
Insights, tools, systems and knowledge of an emerging model of career development counselling which questions restorative approaches and replaces them with a new model which requires a new mindset and commitment to personal and professional growth.
Thursday 8 April
The Green Collar Revolution – is it real or just a marketing exercise??? Lesley Tobin, Dusseldorp Skills Forum, Australia
While the traditional economy has been slowing, the green economy is supposedly booming. What does a green economy really mean and where are all these new green jobs going to be? What does the future hold in terms of employment opportunities for our young people and what skills and experiences can we provide them with that will give them an edge in the marketplace? Riding the wave of the green trend, some people are finding or creating unusual new jobs. What are these jobs and who is ideally placed to be able to take them on? Is the Green Collar revolution about creating new green jobs or putting a ‘green tinge’ on existing jobs so that we all work cleaner and greener. Lesley will plant some 'green food for thought' and explore these ideas as we approach a carbon constrained future.
Case Study: The household residential sector can make a considerable contribution to reducing Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions as it currently accounts for over 20% of all emissions. This will involve a combination of retrofitting, introduction of new technologies and behaviour change by Australian families. To do this successfully, households need to be provided with reliable, professionally-based information and monitoring….who better to provide this information that our enthusiastic youth! The Y Green project develops the human capital and innovation needed to assist Australian households, and in doing so opens up a potential new employment sector for carbon assessors and monitors. A successful pilot in Western Sydney is the forerunner of many new opportunities to engage our young people in this important new area of work and encourage them to take on a leadership role into the future.
From this seminar, delegates will gain
An understanding of where the growth areas are in terms of green jobs
How to engage students in the ‘green collar revolution’
The importance of greening traditional jobs
Career Crossroads Gray Poehnell, Ergon Communications, British Columbia, Canada
Rapid changes in the labour market and in the social context have led to radically new experiences of working life. Workers find themselves working under very different conditions, many having to cope with the challenge of part-time or contractual work. The security of work has also been affected and there is now the expectation that people will regularly face job changes. These working conditions have created a context where people are repeatedly facing career crossroads. Whether employed or unemployed people are finding themselves having to cope with career unrest or career indecision.
Career Crossroads presents an innovative approach to counselling people who face some sort of career crossroads. It may be those who, though already on a career path (employed or unemployed), wonder if they are on the right career path and become unable to sort through their confusion. It may be those who have yet to select a career path but have several options. It may be those who have several job opportunities. The common theme in scenarios such as these is that such people experience career unrest and career indecision. Specifically, the workshop will illustrate how to facilitate effective decision making by assisting people to sort out conflicting and confusing thoughts and then how to recognize, evaluate, and choose options at such times.
