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Hobart <BR>9.15 am – 3.30 pm</FONT></P> <P><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial><EM>There will be three full day workshops to choose from.  Outlines of the workshops are noted below.  Please click on the presenter's name to read their biography.<BR></EM><BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2><STRONG>WORKSHOP 1<BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG><FONT color=#800080>Improving services to clients: New approaches to career guidance practice</FONT><BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><A class="" href="http://www.abcon.biz/pdbios.htm" target=_target>Jenny Bimrose and Hazel Reid<BR></A></FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial><STRONG><FONT size=2>Aim:<BR></FONT></STRONG><FONT size=2>To consider ways of improving services for clients by examining two new approaches to career guidance practice.</FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Objectives:<BR></STRONG></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>By the end of the session, participants will have:<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>a)         Reviewed frameworks informing career guidance practice;<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>b)         Reflected upon influences on their own practice;<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>c)         Explored the impact of the context in which their services are delivered;<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>d)         Examined multicultural and narrative approaches to career counselling;<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>e)         Considered implications for practice for each of these two approaches.</FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Learning Outcomes:<BR></STRONG></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>By the end of the session, participants will be able to:<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>a)         Outline frameworks informing careers guidance in action;<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>b)         Describe key influences on their own practice, together with the broader context in      <BR>            which they deliver services.<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>c)         Evaluate the relevance of multicultural and narrative approaches to career practice for<BR>           their own practice.</FONT></FONT></P> <P><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#008000>WORKSHOP 2<BR></FONT></FONT></FONT></STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#008000><STRONG><FONT color=#800000><FONT color=#800080>Worklife Balance Presentation</FONT> <BR></FONT></STRONG><FONT color=#000000><A class="" href="http://www.abcon.biz/pdbios.htm" target=_target>Cecile Riddle</A></FONT></P> <P><FONT color=#000000>Many people identify finding work-life balance as their number one problem in today’s busy world. Whether juggling a new career and a young family, supporting aging parents, engaging in professional development, career building, or managing some other combination of challenging roles, the demands and pressures can be great. <BR><BR></FONT><FONT color=#000000>As career practitioners, we need to integrate the guidelines of the Australian Blueprint for Career Development into our future practice. This workshop addresses the Career Competencies in Area C: Career Building, specifically 9 and 10, which concern work and life options. <BR><BR></FONT><FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Arial size=2>Apart from assisting you to develop your work-life balance plan, this workshop helps you in identifying ways that disparate clients prioritise their roles and responsibilities and can help you identify what “balance” means to them. In this way you can then assist them with career building strategies which are consonant with their needs for life balance</FONT>.</FONT></FONT></P> <P><STRONG>WORKSHOP 3</STRONG></FONT><BR><FONT color=#800080><STRONG>e-Career Counselling – A new approach for constructing and defining career stories<BR></STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT><A class="" href="http://www.abcon.biz/pdbios.htm " target=_target><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tannis Goddard</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>As the career landscape continues to shift from a person-environment fit perspective to a life span approach, practitioners are exploring new strategies and approaches for career service delivery.</FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Facilitated online career services, when well designed and delivered, can be a very effective medium for establishing collaborative working alliances and supporting clients as they construct and author their career stories. The primarily text-based counselling experience can offer an opportunity to asses, articulate, reflect and discuss career issues within the context of a client’s work/life space by through electronic communication.</FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>The goal of this session is to increase practitioners’ awareness and understanding of facilitated e-learning  as an effective, engaging and enlightening service model while providing concrete strategies that participants can use to map their readiness for integrating online services.</FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">In this session, participants will:</I></B></FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>·         Understand the theoretical constructs from career development, counselling psychology, adult education and educational technology that need to be carefully addressed and effectively brought together to ensure ethical and client centred online career services.</FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>·         Recognize key instructional and programming design factors that are required in online delivery to ensure that that the services are highly relevant for clients and that the online environment conveys a mattering climate, promotes active engagement, fosters reflective meaning making and encourages personal application.</FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>·         Identify the if their career development service model is ready to consider online delivery by understanding key factors that impact potential success including: access, buy in, ethical considerations, technical requirements and practitioner skill readiness.</FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>·         Explore effective online counselling techniques by studying real-life case studies from online programs operating in Vancouver, British Columbia.</FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2><A class="" href="http://www.abcon.biz/aacc08.htm" target=_target>Return to home page</A></FONT></P> <P></FONT> </P> </body>