"Telling tales": understanding and practising narrative career
counselling
Euroguidance Centre in Malta in collaboration with the Malta Career Guidance Association and the Student
Services Department within the Directorate for Educational Services.
Monday 25th May 2015 at Victoria Hotel, Sliema
0830 – 0900
Registration & Coffee
0900 – 0925
Introduction and aims of the Conference.
Launching of Booklets
Ms Doreen Camilleri,
National Co-Ordinator
European Union Programmes Agency
Mr George Said Zammit,
Director, Student Services Department,
Directorate for Educational Services
Ms Dorianne Gravina,
MCGA Chairperson
0925 – 1030
"Telling tales": Understanding and
practising narrative career
counselling
Dr. Hazel Reid
Canterbury Christ Church University
1030 – 1035
Introduction to the workshops.
1035 – 1100
Coffee Break
1100 – 1215
4 Workshops
Moderators:
Using a narrative career counselling
model
1. Lorraine Grech Aquilina
2. Jackie Scerri
3. Ivan Fenech
4. Robert Cassar
1215 – 1220
Presentation of report Group 1
Group 1 Rapporteur:
1220 – 1225
Presentation of report Group 2
Group 2 Rapporteur
1225 – 1230
Presentation of report Group 3
Group 3 Rapporteur
1230 – 1235
Presentation of report Group 4
Group 4 Rapporteur
1235 – 1330
Discussion & Conclusive remarks
Dr Hazel Reid
1330 – 1430
Stand Up Reception
Mr Robert Cassar
MCGA member
Keynote Speaker: Dr Hazel Reid
Biography
Dr Hazel Reid is a Reader in Career Guidance and Counselling and Director of Research in the Faculty of Education at
Canterbury Christ Church University, where she co-ordinates the Auto/Biography and Narrative Research theme
group. She is a Heritage Fellow of the Career Development Institute, a Fellow of the Academy of Higher Education, a
NICEC Fellow (National Institute of Career Education & Counselling) and co-edits the NICEC journal. Hazel's research
interests are supervision within career counselling and in teaching, the development of narrative career counselling
and the use of biographical methodologies for research in educational fields. With Jane Westergaard she is also
researching the experiences of young unemployed people in coastal towns in SE England. She serves on the steering
committee of the Network for Innovation for Career Counselling and Guidance in Europe (NICE), is a founding fellow
of the European Society for Vocational Designing and Career Counselling, and is involved in other European projects.
Hazel has many publications and her latest book, edited with Linden West and published with Routledge, is
Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change: a transdisciplinary approach to researching lives. She is currently
writing An Introduction to Career Counselling and Coaching for Sage publications, which will be published in 2015.
Contact: hazel.reid@canterbury.ac.uk
Keynote Speech
Overview
The key note presentation will briefly outline the three research projects that have informed the speaker's approach
to narrative career counselling. It will make reference to the constraints of introducing any new approach into
career guidance and counselling practice, but will also highlight the benefits. The model will be explained and the
presentation will be illustrated with examples from practice: drawing on clients' stories, the evaluation of
practitioners and feedback from research participants in the current study.
Workshops
The workshops will provide an opportunity to practise elements of the approach. Guidance will be given and
activities will be suggested. Time will be built into the workshops for delegates to reflect on their initial experience
of using a narrative career counselling model. After small group feedback to the whole group, further questions will
be raised and discussed in a plenary session.