PD Reports
Please share any professional development experiences you have
found worthwhile. Send reports to s.pulman@auckland.ac.nz
2012 reports
2011 reports
2010 reports
2009 Reports
- Catching the Wave CATE
Conference 2009: Workshop & speaker notes
- ACER (Australian Council for Educational
Research) Conference
Presentations
- This series of powerpoint presentations has
been contributed by: Mark
Dashper (Team Solutions, Northland); Nicola
Riley (Team Solutions
Auckland); Saskia Osborne, Waikato University;
Lesleigh Henderson,
Waikato University; Nicki Dowling, Massy
University; Adie Graham,
Massey University
- AUT Regional Careers Advisors' Update
Day
- Recently AUT invited regional careers
advisors to their update day and
covered the costs involved. National President,
Sheryl Hewitson, was
one of those who attended. She writes: "I had
the opportunity to
attend the Regional Careers Advisors update day
at AUT in Auckland
and found this to be a very informative and
interesting day. The blend
of tours and information gave me a really good
insight into many of the
courses available at AUT. The new clinic
facility is most impressive and a
real asset to both the university and the
community. Well done to the
team for their organisation. These
opportunities are invaluable to
careers advisors. They enable us to give
accurate and up to date
information to our students which we have
experienced first hand. This is
not something that they can obtain from the Net
or from brochures."
2007 Reports
- Careers Education Assoc. Victoria (CEAV) Conference Dec 2007.
Report by Keith Thomson on keynote addresses from Bill Law and
Gideon Arulmani.
- Triad Armed Forces Experience, 11-14 June. Report from Marie
Macquet, Chairperson, Canterbury/Westland region.
- "Where have all the workers gone?" Roger Young, CEO of Meadow
Mushrooms
This report has been sent in by Marie Macquet,
Chairperson, Canterbury/Westland region, following Roger's talk in
August. The essence of the talk was very relevant to some of the
problems facing employers today.
Issues such as:
o Too many
jobs not enough candidates
o What are
employers looking for that is so hard to find
o Is there
a mismatch between young people's aspirations and older
people's expectations?
o Are there
too many choices out there for young people to decide?
o What can
we do to help you to help, help us?
Employers are struggling to find the right employee for almost
every job that is available. Roger, whose beginnings were at Otago
University (Marketing and Management), and then initially in
Invercargill, has worked across the world in countries such as
Australia, Canada and the United States. He offered a wealth of
information with regard to this topic and certainly set us thinking
about the new world of work and the modern day
worker.
- 2007 International Career Expert Workshop: "Dynamic Career
Strategies and the Use of Metaphors" with Dr. Norm Amundson from
the University of British Columbia
- Synopsis by Dr. Dale Furbish, AUT University. Thanks to
Auckland region for this report which was published in ACATE's May
newsletter.
Dr. Norm Amundson from the University of British Columbia
delivered the 2007 International Career Expert Workshop at AUT
University on 20 February. Norm is one of the most sought after
presenters on career topics in the world. His enthusiasm, wit and
vast expertise combined to make this workshop a highly informative
and entertaining experience.
The title of the workshop was Dynamic Career Strategies and the
Use of Metaphors. Norm began the session by examining some of the
contemporary social and economic changes that challenge personal
and working lives. He suggested that career practitioners need to
help clients respond to these challenges by using imagination,
flexibility, risk taking, curiosity, team work and inspired effort.
He noted that clients often come for career counselling with a
crisis of imagination. In order to overcome this crisis, career
practitioners should adopt a more actively engaged counselling
approach. Active Engagement is Norm's model for career counselling
that emphasises a holistic (physical, mental, emotional and
spiritual) approach. Active Engagement suggests that counselling
occur in spaces other than the traditional office setting (for
example, while walking rather than being seated). He also called
for more flexible scheduling (challenging the appropriateness of
the 50 minute session) and time for reflective breaks for both
counsellor and client during the session. Active Engagement
requires increased cultural sensitivity and a broader range of
counselling strategies, such as more attention to visual
stimulation and body movement.
Among the specific strategies that Norm demonstrated and
participants practiced were storytelling, structured exploration
exercises and metaphors.
"Metaphors are the ways in which we understand and experience
events in terms of their connection to other events. Metaphors help
us visualise situations. By using relatively simple visual images,
we are in a better position to posit actions."
Norm devoted time to examine the structure of metaphors and how
they can be used to enrich the career counselling experience for
clients. Workshop participants tried out their own career metaphors
with each other and experienced first hand the effectiveness of
their use.
Norm is the author of a number of well-known career counselling
books. His most recent is Essential Elements of Career Counselling.
His earlier book, Active Engagement, is a practical and valuable
resource used by career practitioners in many countries.
The ACATE editorial team thanks Dr Dale Furbish for his overview
of this session, and welcomes all contributions that may be
valuable to our members.
- TRANSIENT STUDENTS - THE RESEARCH. This information, provided
by Tess Livingstone (Taranaki) went with a presentation from a
guidance counselor outlining the experience of transience from the
students view
- "What Colour is your Parachute - for Teenagers" speaking tour
by co-author Carol Christen. Notes from Adie Graham & Lynn
Gillespie (March 2007)
- Myths and Legends: What role do they play in career
counselling?" Claire Stirling-Hawkins: report March 2007 (by Helen
van Toor)
2006 Reports
* "NLP for Career Practitioners": Workshop
report July 2006 (by Jane Pearson)
* "Chaos Theory": Jim Bright Workshop March
2006 (by Lynn Gillespie)
