Role Models in Career Development

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

8:45am arrival – 4:30pm finish

 

Duval Conference Centre
Duval College, University of New England

Elm Avenue,  Armidale NSW, 2351

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Five Compelling Reasons to Attend the “Follow My Lead” Workshop

Whatever your work context or client base, here are some excellent reasons to attend this free, NSW Follow My Lead Workshop. This full-day, interactive workshop, is for ALL practitioners. Additional benefits beyond the targeted group include exploring career conversation, motivational interviewing , unconscious bias and effective role modelling. Register now for:1. A rare chance away from work to reflect on your practice and sharpen your skills. 2. Pathway information and resources that can benefit all your clients. 3. An opportunity to meet with like-minded colleagues: to network, interact and learn from each other. 4. Exposure to counselling approaches and scenarios that can add to your tool kit. 5. Exploration and affirmation of competencies that allow practitioners in any context to work more effectively with people who have different personal and professional perspectives. It’s free. It’s in an accessible location. It’s the final NSW regional workshop. It earns 5 CPD hours.

While MATSITI aims to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Teachers, Follow my Leadworkshops are designed to build the capabilities of attendees who support students or clients with career and employment decision-making choices. The day program has primarily been developed to support teachers and/or career advisors and will be delivered by Narelle Milligan FCDAA an Association Fellow member, selected as the Role Model Leader for the state of New South Wales. Everyone will receive a handbook as a future reference tool, which will include key information sources. Participation offers the opportunity to strengthening local networks by bringing teachers, career advisers, private practitioners and other people interested in career development together in a mutual learning opportunity. The full day workshops– includes a networking break over a light lunch.

The material covered is a combination of approaches available for working with culturally diverse clients and covers the following aims and objectives:

1. Exploration of the diversity competencyin career development
2. Consider how to become role modelswithin the local community
3. Discuss cultural sensitivity in career activities
4. Assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to explore a career in teaching

If you work as a career adviser, counsellor or teacher or as a teachers aid, you are in a position to benefit from participating in this workshop.

While mostly aimed at educators in secondary schools, teachers in the primary sector are also well placed to role model teaching as a career and will certainly gain skills, strategies and ideas to assist when working with students from diverse backgrounds particularly Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students. Those that work in the corporate or private sectors will gain additional skills in working with client diversity, explore a rage of counselling techniques a gain useful information.

 

Attendees who are members of CDAA are eligible to claim 5 Continuing Professional Development hours.

The Association encourages non-members to consider the benefits of CDAA membership which is further explained here. Members of other Career Development Associations are well advised to log this training as CPD with your own association.

Please contact the project officer Michele Whall if you have any questions, projects@cdaa.org.au

 

Please share this opportunity with friends, colleagues and interested stakeholders, other opportunities and locations are listed on the CDAA website and can be accessed by clicking on the “register now” link.