PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EVENT: ENHANCING CAREER
GUIDANCE IN THE NORTH EAST
About the Conference
This conference for career guidance
practitioners in the North East, offers an opportunity to network, share best
practice and hear about recent research from home and abroad.
We are delighted to be joined by BA Hons
Guidance and Counselling students from Northumbria University and staff and
students of the School Counselling Masters Program, University
of North Florida.
The deadline
for conference bookings is Friday 1 March. Places are limited to please book
early to secure your place.
The day will include two workshops, on registration you will be asked to choose 3 preferred workshops from the list below.
Workshops
Workshop A: Three ways of working with resistance – Peter Beven, Director of Teaching and
Learning, Northumbria University
- Many practitioners struggle
with the apparent lack of engagement of clients with whom they work. This workshop
will look at the issue of resistance in three ways: that of issue avoidance,
game playing, and resistance as feedback. We will begin to think about helpful
strategies we can use to address one to one discussions where we encounter
these difficulties.
Workshop B: Working with Groups – Gill Naylor, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University
- Engaging
with groups draws on the full range of career guidance practitioner skills
and then asks just a little more. This workshop will explore the key role
that effective facilitation plays in the running of successful groups.
Workshop C: The role of the adviser in Preparing for Adulthood
for SEND young people – Ann Graham,
Connexions LLDD Co-ordinator
- This workshop will look at how careers
guidance supports good transition planning across the 4 Preparing for Adulthood
themes and how it can support statutory processes.
Workshop D: Importance of career conversations in
making sense of work place experiences – Paula
Benton, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University
- Research suggests that work related experiences can increase
self-efficacy and provide important opportunities for career exploration but
this doesn’t happen in isolation. In this workshop, we will consider the
necessary conditions to provide valuable workplace experiences and importance
of career conversations to help young people make sense of these.
Workshop E: Working towards mutually beneficial employer
encounters – Rachel Morrison, Senior
Project Co-ordinator, North East Collaborative Outreach Programme.
- In light of recent reports highlighting that employer encounters have
decreased nationally, this workshop will discuss recent research regarding what
a meaningful encounter looks like to the employer and how building positive
relationships between stakeholders can support future engagement.
Programme
- 13:00 Arrival and Networking
- 13:30 Welcome
- 14:10 Workshop 1
- 15:05 International keynote – Transforming
School Counselling (University of North Florida)
- 15:40 Workshop 2
- 16:25 Networking
- 17:00 Conference Close
Getting Here
Registration takes place at Hall B, Coach Lane Campus West which is in building 3 on this map
Booking is now closed
