The workshop “Guidance in communities of students in upper secondary school to distinguish and choose study, career and other transitions in a democratic context – changing the guidance practice” will present the counseling performed in groups by Study- and Career Guidance Denmark. Furthermore, it will give examples on how to generalize the students’ questions, doubts, hopes and dreams encouraging students to engage, reflect and have dialogues in a counselor-facilitated community.
Based on one of our many guidance activities for groups, we will argue why the guidance in communities should be student-engaging, and discuss how we, as counselors, balance on a knife edge to ensure that the choice of education and career will be of the greatest possible benefit to the individual and to society as a whole. We will make concrete suggestions for exercises and methods which, in our view, initiate student thinking and reflections on their individual wishes and opportunities in terms of education, jobs and other transitions in life, in order to introduce them to new perspectives and ease and generalize their doubts and choices.
In addition, the workshop offers perspectives on and discusses how the counselor role has changed in Study- and Career Guidance Denmark in order to increase the focus on creating student-engaging guidance activities. Finally, the workshop invites participants to reflect their own practice in regard of Study- and Career Guidance Denmark’s.
