A new social arrangement of work presents a series of questions and challenges to practitioners who aim to be useful to people as they design their lives (Savickas et al., 2010); questions that individuals who work in global economies must address (Savickas, 2009). Career construction counselling for Life designing integrates the process of career construction and self-constructing with the unique factors that play a role in an individual’s life at a specific time and in a specific context and attempts to explain vocational behaviour and development. This course (based on the work of Mark Savickas, Hartung and others) addresses the challenges to career counselling in the 21st century by focussing on, for example, personal agency. Focussing on Career construction counselling for Life designing, Savickas’ six career-style questions, coupled with the use of early memories, are facilitated in a practical manner.
CPD Points: 7 CEUs
To register please contact Shadi on shadi@jvrafrica.co.za for Johannesburg based trainings and Alida on alida@jvrafrica.co.za for Cape Town based trainings.
Alternatively, you are welcome to check upcoming dates on our 2010 Training Schedule.
Training Event: Advanced Career Workshop – Career construction for Life designing
Length of Training: 1 day
Training: CPD Workshop (Attendance Certificate)
Trainer: Prof Kobus Maree
Exam: None
Assessment: None
Target Audience: Psychologists, Psychometrists and Registered Counsellors with an interest in Career Psychology.
Synopsis of Training
- Introduction and expectations
- Theoretical approaches: Psychology/ Career counseling: Brief overview of the differential, developmental and life-designing approaches.
- Merging these three approaches: Understanding the movement from fitting oneself to occupations, fitting work into one’s life, and using work to construct and advance one’s life narratives (Hartung, 2010).
- Savickas’ approach: Career construction counseling for Life designing.
- The storied/narrative approach: Very brief overview of traditional strategies rearranged for use from a social-constructionist perspective, for example life lines, card sorts, genograms, life stories so as to elicit and elaborate career narratives. (Techniques for gathering information to compile a life history, for facilitating writing of a life story (Cochran) and for facing transitions (Savickas) are elaborated.)
- Elaborating and building on the notions of narratibility, biographicity, adaptability and identity.
- Career-style interview (six career-style questions; Savickas/ Hartung): Practical exercises
- Career construction counseling for Life designing, using early memories: Practical exercises
- Triangulation and crystallization in career construction: Practical exercises
If you have any further questions about this workshop, please contact us for more detail.
CV of the Trainer
Prof Maree is editor of Perspectives in Education and the SA Journal of Psychology. A triple doctorate (DEd (Career Counselling; PhD (Didactics of Mathematics); DPhil (Psychology)), he is internationally recognised for his work in e.g. narrative career counselling. His research focuses on e.g. optimising the achievement of learners and providing cost-effective career facilitation to all persons. The author of more than 110 articles and 65 books/ book chapters over the past 14 years, and a practising psychologist for over 19 years, he is regularly invited to read papers at national and international conferences, mostly in the field of Career counselling (with the emphasis on career construction counselling). Prof Maree’s recent textbook on narrative Career counselling, Shaping the story: A guide to facilitating narrative career counselling (world-renowned authors and researchers such as Professors Mark Savickas (USA), Norm Amundson (Canada), Paul Hartung (USA), Charles Chen (Canada), Wendy Patton and Mary McMahon (Australia), Mark Watson (SA), John Winslade (USA), etc. as well as 42 other top experts in the field of Career Psychology contributed to this ground-breaking publication) is widely hailed as one of the watershed publications in the field of Career Psychology over the past 100 years. He was awarded the annual Education Association of South Africa (EASA) Medal for Exceptional Contributions to Education in 2004 and the Research Medal for Outstanding Research in January 2006 by EASA. He was elected as a finalist in 2006 (Category C: Individual who has made outstanding contributions to Science, Engineering and Technology (SET)) and 2009 (in both Category C and Category K: Science communication for public awareness). He was awarded the Stals Prize (SA Academy of Science and Arts) for exceptional research and contributions to psychology in 2009. In 2007, he received the Exceptional Academic Achiever Award (UP) for a second term (2007-2009). He was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching and Learning for 2010 and the Exceptional Academic Achiever Award (UP) for a third term (2011-2013). Prof Maree was elected as a member of the South African Academy of Science and Arts (Akad.SA) in 2004 and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) in 2006. He is a C1-rated researcher (NRF).
