"If i want it to be different, I must change something" - Advisory workshop for the (long-term) unemployed

• Published in: Andragoška spoznanja
• Main Author: Gabor, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Slovenian
• Published: Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts 2013
• Subjects: lifelong career orientation; goals; time perspectives; creativity; visualization; drawing; the purpose of life; changing beliefs; socio–cultural reality; creation; vseživljenjska karierna orientacija; cilji; časovne perspektive; ustvarjalnost; vizualizacija; risanje; smisel življenja; spreminjanje prepričanj; družbenokulturna realnost; kreacija; sami
• Online Access: https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/AndragoskaSpoznanja/article/view/502; https://doi.org/10.4312/as.19.1.60-78

The prevailing approach to career and empoyment counselling in Slovenia seems to be the approach aiming at social effectiveness, which is too unilateral. The workshop »Different« addresses the participants mainly through personal development approaches (including constructivism) and social reconstructivism. It relies on contemporary scientific and expert findings: recent motivation theories, inclusion of creativity into the process of carreer counselling, time perspectives, creation of life plan, the meaning of emotions. The participants enjoy the workshop, the counsellors like leading it. The participants come into better contact with themselves and make certain transformations regarding their views, experiences, beliefs and activities. Zdi se, da je prevladujoči pristop h kariernemu in zaposlitvenemu svetovanju v Sloveniji pristop socialne učinkovitosti, za katerega se izkazuje, da je preveč enostranski. Delavnica »Drugače« udeležence nagovarja predvsem prek pristopov osebnega razvoja (vključno s konstruktivizmom) in socialnega rekonstruktivizma. Naslanja se na sodobna znanstvena in strokovna dognanja: novejše teorije motivacije, vključitev ustvarjalnosti posameznika v proces kariernega svetovanja, časovne perspektive, kreiranje lastnega življenja, pomen čustev. Udeleženci se je udeležujejo z veseljem, svetovalci jo radi vodijo. Udeleženci bolje spoznajo sami sebe in naredijo nekatere transformacije v svojih stališčih, doživljanju, prepričanjih in aktivnostih.