When the green guidance toolbox was being developed, we did not have a particular kind of practitioner in mind: we were thinking of someone working with different clients choosing their vocation or navigating career transitions in a labour market that is slowly, insufficiently and unevenly greening. What happens when you take those tools and work with ten adults who have…
The Lower Austrian Education and Career Guidance Service (abbreviated to bbn) is aimed at people aged 15 to 64 who have questions about education and careers. These can range from very specific queries, such as “Is there funding available for the further training I’m planning?” to complex issues of career reorientation, such as “Am I doing the job I really…
Based in southern Sweden, study and careers counsellor Elin Holgersson works at a university where guidance has traditionally been strongly centred on the individual. In this interview, she reflects on how her perspective has gradually expanded through encounters with social justice education and Green Guidance. Rather than seeing sustainability as a separate or specialist agenda, she describes how small shifts…
Shékina Rochat is a career psychologist, researcher, and dedicated practitioner. For several years, she has been exploring the connections between meaningful work, sustainability, and social justice. Trained in motivational interviewing, she became interested early on in supporting young people who had dropped out of conventional paths, and in how career guidance professionals can help remove the barriers that prevent ecological…
Interview with Aline Muller Guidetti and Sabrina Tacchini How can we support people differently in a world marked by ecological collapse, social injustices, and transformations in work? How can we step out of “neutrality” and dare to ask the real questions—those of meaning, of impact, of our relationship to the living world and to others? In this interview conducted by…
Author: Erhard Brodmann, Career Professional, City of Zurich Career Centre Guidance in transition – new questions, new answers Questions about sustainability are becoming increasingly common in career information, advising, guidance and counselling. Clients seeking these services (especially adults aged 30 and above) are increasingly interested in meaningful work, environmentally relevant career fields and the future viability of their jobs. This…