FREE On-Demand Webinar (2023)

Global Perspectives in Career Development

Empower your inclusive practice through Indigenous knowledge and worldviews in this 2-part series

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What you'll learn

Indigenous peoples are more likely to face obstacles to workforce entry due to racism, unconscious bias and discrimination. This presents an urgent challenge to the field of career development. Career practitioners must learn, unlearn and relearn what we know about Indigenous peoples around the world. Indigenous career practitioners must also feel able to claim and reclaim sovereignty of their knowledges and colonization's impact on their worldviews.

In this free recorded webinar series, Indigenous career professionals from New Zealand and Canada share their journey in the career development field and their perspectives on cultural approaches to Indigenous career development. Better understand how Indigenous worldviews of work and holistic approaches to self-development and self-determination are key aspects of cultural knowledge that inform workforce development today.

 

Understand the historical context informing Indigenous peoples’ disconnection from workforce development

 

Learn how the resilience of Indigenous peoples helps individuals overcome adversity and thrive

 

Be equipped to understand your clients’ values and unique strengths

 

Gain valuable insights into building authentic and reciprocal relationships with Indigenous clients and communities

 

And much more!

This recorded webinar series originally ran in 2023 and continues to offer evergreen insights to career professionals.


Webinars Overview

By understanding the historical context of Indigenous peoples’ disconnection from workforce development, you can help individuals thrive today. In this webinar, you will learn: 

  • How Indigenous worldviews and cultural understandings can help address the impact of historical policies on Indigenous career development 
  • The important role they continue to play in Indigenous career development 
  • How Indigenous career practitioners are integrating Indigenous ways of knowing and being into their career practices 
  • How greater knowledge of Indigenous perspectives can assist you to better support Indigenous clients

Indigenous and non-Indigenous career practitioners can collaborate to promote inclusive and respectful career development practices. In this webinar, you will: 

  • Explore the importance of importance of reciprocity and interconnectedness in mind, body, spirit and emotions when building relationships with clients 
  • Gain strategies to support Indigenous voices and self-advocacy  
  • Learn how to effectively engage in responsible dialogue and relationships to promote an inclusive practice 
  • Understand your in empowering clients and guiding them toward purposeful career decisions
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Registration Includes

• 2 recorded webinars to learn at your own pace
• A downloadable certificate upon completion

Meet the Presenters

Peter Apulu is a Pacific Career Practitioner, whose ancestral Indigeneous lineage hails from Samoa. Founder of BrownTale, a career practice in South Auckland, New Zealand steeped in Pacific Indigenous frameworks that build scaffoldings of grace and gratitude to have courageous dialogue that advance career development for Pacific communities.

Trina  Maher, President, Bridging Concepts. Trina is a member of Mattagami First Nation, who started her career helping corporations and Indigenous communities connect about employment in 1999. She enjoys sharing her thought leadership about Indigenous workforce development approaches and career pathing  gained from her experiences working across Canada with multiple organizations as an Indigenous inclusion workplace strategist.

Victoria Grant OC., ICD.d: Loon Clan, Teme-Augama Anishnabai Qwai, (Women of the Deep Water People) The most important roles in her life are wife, mother and grandmother. Throughout her career, always with a passionate voice, in her work and in her volunteer activities, she has always been and continues to be an advocate for more robust Indigenous engagement. Victoria is also the Chair of Community Foundations of Canada and past Chair of The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada.

“Ko Pukehāpopo te maunga. Ko Waiomoko te awa. Ko Whitirēia te whare. Ko Ngāti Konohi te iwi. Ko Lynette Reid ahau. Nō reira, tenā koutou katoa!”

“This introduction shares who I am and has a significant influence on my understanding of the world, and the kinship value I live.”

Lynette Reid is a Career Specialist and has over 20 years’ experience in the New Zealand career field, where she has supervised career professionals and worked with a range of client groups. She has completed a master of commerce and a PhD, both focusing on careers from a Māori perspective. Her current research program includes successful career transitions of secondary students and wāhine Māori in accounting.

What Learners are Saying:

Very interesting and informative session, panelist were well chosen and provided good insights.

The openness and frankness of the panelists, the balance of personal, professional and cultural perspectives, and the similarities and differences in what they shared gave me new and greater perspective and understanding of Indigenous peoples in Canada and New Zealand in the broader context as well as in the career pathing context.

This further developed my understandings of the topic and appreciation of the main issues.

I wasn’t sure what to expect exactly, but I found the discussion to be engaging and enlightening in a way that many trainings don’t seem to do well.

About CERIC

CERIC is a charitable organization that is dedicated to the advancement of education, research and advocacy in career counselling and development. We fund projects and provide innovative resources and learning opportunities that build the knowledge and skills of diverse career and employment professionals.