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(both from Bildungsberatung in Wien
[Educational Guidance in Vienna])
introduced specific methods for this
form of counselling and explained
the advantages of cross-institutional
cooperation. The workshop “Image
in career coaching and vocational
guidance” guided the participants
through the counselling process
toward self-reflection and the iden-
tification of objectives with visually
oriented coaching methods (led by:
Dorota Raniszewska, business trainer
and coach, Poland).

Further workshop topics: “Guidance
for a Happy Life“ (Ionana Panc, Titu
Maiorescu University, Romania),
“Applying psychological counselling
Tibor Bors Borbely-Pecze introduced bility, challenges are also increasing in student career guidance” (Ivana
further career concepts: such as the for educational and occupational Mrgan, guidance counsellor, Croatia),
protean career model (according guidance counsellors who prepare “Guide my W@y!” (Florian Kreutzer,
to Douglas Hall), which describes a their clients and help them make University of Applied Labour Studies
career as a process that is managed suitable careers choices. of the Federal Employment Agency,
by the person, not by the company. Germany), “Braveness vs perfor-
The search for self-fulfilment is the Interactive workshops mance? Overcoming the learned
driving force for the individual; crite- Following these two keynote speech- helplessness“ (Krisztina Molnar,
ria for success are rooted within the es, participants at the Euroguidance TANDEM, Slovakia).
individual, not in external circum- Cross Border Seminar attended
stances. workshops held by 10 European The tenth European seminar was
countries. Two workshops from held in Retz/AT this year. As this
The career adaptability model (ac- Austria emphasised the coopera- year’s event marked an anniversary,
cording to Mark Savickas ), on the tion among educational guidance it was held under the auspices of the
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other hand, focusses on the re- centres. “Do it like the spider: How Austrian Euroguidance Centre and
sources of individuals in coping with network building can improve the in close cooperation with the other
current and expected professional access to Lifelong Guidance” (Kathrin two founding countries, the Czech
changes, transitions and challenges. Weinelt and Ingeborg Wilfinger from Republic and Slovakia. Keynotes
The ability to proactively advance Bildungsinformation Burgenland [Ed- and workshops from 11 countries
one’s own development and make ucational Information Burgenland] (AT, CZ, DE, HR, HU, PL, RO, SE, SL,
suitable life choices has proven and Katrin Reiter from Netzwerk SK) provided insights into current
essential. High professional adapt- Bildungsberatung Salzburg [Net- approaches and methods of partici-
ability also necessitates continuous work Education Guidance Salzburg]) pating countries. 81 counsellors from
engagement with one’s own future initiated a discourse on the practice 14 European countries took part.
and the ability to perceive opportu- of networking at four interactive The participants learned about Czech
nities that present themselves. work stations. The workshop “Online cooperation between companies and
Guidance – Chances and Limits of a university career centres within the
In light of increasing challenges for Nationwide Collaboration and the context of a field trip to Brno on June
the individual within the work pro- Method Itself”, led by Barbara Ober 8.
cess and concurrently growing flexi- wasserlechner and Barbara Glattauer

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Mark Savickas Ph.D. is professor of Behavioral Sciences at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Counselor Education at
Kent State University, and Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He has served as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Organ-
isational Behaviour in the School of Business at Loughborough University (United Kingdom), the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Lisbon (Portugal), and
the Department of Psychology at Vrije University (Belgium).

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