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2013 Year of Competences:
Guidance Thematic Working Group

1 French-speaking Community

As part of the 2013 Year of Competences project held at the level of French-speaking Belgium , guidance was selected
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from among 12 themes. It was piloted by the CISP Interfederation (Interfédé) in collaboration with Bruxelles Formation,
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Secondary Education, FéBISP , Forem and Ifapme. The first set of activities consisted included questioning of guidance
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activities, sharing experiences between guidance actors and people working with clients who do not have access to
training and employment or who are dropping out.
A study day organised on 26 November 2013 was the culmination of the reflection process initiated within the frame-
work of the thematic working group. In addition, a week of guidance was organised which resulted in various
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activities during the month of November 2013. At the end of that year, continuity of activities was ensured through a
budget carry-over. Activities carried out in 2014 focused on guidance practitioners’ training in a participatory process
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similar to the dynamic developed in 2013.
A working group made up of career guidance professionals and people working directly with the public was created.
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The work carried out is the subject of a report included in the activity report of the Consultative Committee for Training and
Education (CCEF), which ensures the continuity of activities initiated under the “2013, Year of Competences” project.

AIM(S) Workers from institutions or various structures with
guidance roles in their job description.
• to set up a joint training activity for staff with a guidance
role (targeted guidance, generalist , ... );
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• to question the resources used in professional training of METHODOLOGY
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guidance staff;
• to analyse how the training on offer is a resource, a lever To carry out this activity, a working group was set up to
from the point of view of the audiences; bring together different stakeholders..
• to lead to the identification of reference points and steps The reflection phase started by sharing significant training
to support the training pathways of professionals for experiences (initial or ongoing training, support, peer-eval-
Recent Developments in Guidance - Belgium | Chapter 1 | Policy initiatives, networks and working groups
both guidance education and targeted guidance; uation, conference presentation, visits, exchange of practic-
• to consider how to sustain and include these vocational es) linked with the guidance role.
training courses in the guidance training currently avail- Continuous training proved to be more significant than
able and to extend access to them; initial training, and responded to requirements:
• to produce a deliverable and if possible, present it during - centred on the knowledge of contexts and audiences;
the Education and Vocational Training Conference (Assis- - focused on learning and training involvement processes;
es de l’Enseignement et de la Formation professionnelle); - centred on the professional positioning and the “heart”
• from this action, bring out new perspectives that will be of the role;
relayed to decision-makers (show how our joint action - centred on the acquisition of methods, tools processes;
allows us to go further). for distance learning, sharing and construction of practic-
es, transfer of tools/practices, teamwork.
TARGET GROUP(S) On this basis, we identified the key skills needed in any
guidance role, whether primary or secondary:

1 www.anneedescompetences.be
2 New name of the Interfederation of EFT/OISP - www.interfede.be
3 Brussels Federation of Socio-professional Integration.
4 The results of the work are recorded in the thematic papers and the Memorandum of the 2013 Year of Competences - www.anneedescompetences.be
5 This heading covers a wider field of professionals than guidance counsellors and also concerns practices such as work trials in different forms.
6 The participants came from associations belonging to the following institutions:Atelier de formation par le travail (Work Training Workshop - AFT), CFISPA (Centre de
formation et d’insertion socioprofessionnelle adaptés agrées par l’AVIQ - Adapted Socio-Professional Training and Integration Centre approved by the AVIQ), Bruxelles
Formation Tremplin (Brussels Springboard Training), CEFO (Carrefour emploi formation orientation - Employment and Training Guidance Centre), Reconstruction
Units, CPMS (Centre psychomédicosociaux de l’enseignement obligatoire - Psychomedicosocial centre for compulsory education), Forem Formation, Ifapme, Infor
Jeunes, Local Mission, CISP (Centres for Socio-professional Integration), Local authorities, etc.
7 Operators w guidance role is performed alongside other roles.
8 This is training in the broad sense: action training, peer-evaluation support, tools training.

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