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9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Morning
Session Title
Abstract
The Power of Positive Attitude
WED APRIL
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Room
Duration
Maple
90 min.
Key
Positive attitude may be the single most important factor affecting both personal and career success. Positive attitude has been identified as the number one personal attribute that employers are looking for when they hire new employees. In addition, employees identify positive attitude as the number one characteristic they would like to have in co-workers. This workshop will help participants better understand the five major characteristics of positive attitude. The workshop is both inspirational and research based. Participants will leave feeling positive about their own careers while gaining tips for helping clients to be more successful.
Bio
Presenter: Brian Harris, B.A., M.Ed., Canadian Guidance Services Brian Harris has a wide range of counselling experiences including high school, college and university settings. Career resources that he has authored have been used by more than 500,000 people across Canada. He currently works full-time as an author and professional speaker, although he also teaches a career counselling course at Queen’s University.
Session Title
Abstract
Vocational-Occupational Counselling Of Seniors in Argentina
Room
Duration
Willow 1
90 min.
Key
The mind set regarding reaching maturity has suffered a great transformation over the years. From being deeply respected, older people are excluded socially as well as from the employment market. They are abandoned — much as nomadic groups used to do with their elderly — in nursing homes so that the younger generations can maintain their own way of life. In this work we start with the limitations encountered by seniors in Argentina. Many of their health complaints are psychosomatic — due to their lack of hope and confidence regarding what the future holds for them. Due to space and time limitations, we have restricted our work to persons 60 years old and up. The challenge for counselling, in relation to inter-generational projects, is rooted in achieving a change in personal and social vision that leads to a better vocational-occupational identity construction.
Bio
Presenter: Alicia Stivelberg, Public Accountant and Psychologist, OVO Foundation
Alicia Graciela Stivelberg, School of Economics-National Public Accountant College of Humanities-Bachelor in Clinic Psychology. Postgrade in Educational Health. Postgrade in Family Own Managed Business. Co-director of Ex Libris, workshops of Vocational Expressions. Member of the Educational and Labor Commission, Fundacion El Libro, International Book Fair, Member of Board of Directors of “Fuerza Empresaria”, a non profit association. Member of AIOSP (International Association of Educational and Professional Guidance. Member of B´nai B´rith Argentina.Co Author of the Book “Envejecimiento y Vejez” Growing older and the elderly- New contributions Interdisciplinary Collection-Atuel Editorial (1998).
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