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Is there room for degrowth in career guidance?

What kind of knowledge, competences and values do career practitioners need facing the climate crisis
and social inequalities?

The workshop was based on the work of various Towards degrowth?
scholars (Diener, Dimsits, Guichard, Irving, Hooley, Within the workshop we suggested a route that may
Plant, Sultana and others) and inspired by the help to navigate career practitioners in current crises
results from previous international events (De- and show the possible ways of their professional de-
growth conference in Brno 2022, Euroguidance velopment:
conferences in Vienna in 2021 and in Prague 2020
st
& online training Career Guidance for the 21 1. Recognise the current state of the world (e.g.
Century – Career Practitioners as Guidance to a through story-telling) and explore our own atti-
Just and Sustainable World for All). The team was tudes, feelings and bodily reactions regarding that.
also encouraged by several achievements in the 2. Be aware of them, accept them and search for re-
Czech Republic that flourished our understand- spective values in our life and professional practice.
ing of the role of career guidance in the current
world. We have managed to integrate green and 3. Search for sources, share with colleagues and col-
social justice aspects into the education of school laborators, and build a supportive community.
career counsellor, as well as into the handbook for 4. Keep hope and promote solutions that bring a
school career counsellor. just and sustainable future for all.

Indivisible challenges The competence development of the guidance com-
munity needs to address challenges brought by social
The workshop which took place at the Euroguidance inequalities and climate change. The aim of our work-
conference in Prague (November 2022) focused on two shop was to bring one piece to this puzzle that surely
indivisible challenges of our days – climate change and needs more attention and intensive focus.
social justice. We understand these issues to be closely
connected, as presented, for example, in ‘Doughnut
Economy,’ by Kate Raworth. Both, therefore, need to be Kamila Bolfová,
addressed simultaneously and urgently – and conse- Kateřina Hašková,
quently, our workshop aimed to explore the obligations Alice Müllerová
and possibilities of career guidance in these regards. Czech Association for Career Guidance and
Career Development

As a starting point for our discussion, we presented
two stories written by the Czech journalist Saša Uhlová
in her long term investigative project focussing on
precarious work in the Czech Republic and also those
who migrated to the other European countries to earn
a living. While listening to the stories of exploitation,
terrible working conditions, unfair treatment and un-
just conditions, we asked the participants to explore
their bodily reactions and feelings and to name them.
Within this experience we were searching for clues
regarding career counsellors education and training.

Euroguidance Insight Magazine Issue 1/2023