CDANZ Hawkes Bay PD Opportunity

For CDANZ and CATE members and Maori professionals working with youth in social services and education

When: Monday 16th May 2011

Where: Cricket Pavilion, Nelson Park, Napier

Time: 1.00-3.30pm   (Tea and coffee will be served prior to the presentations and following the sessions afternoon tea will be provided) 

CDANZ has arranged for Dr Lynette Reid to present her PhD research relating to Maori career decision making,  in conjunction with Selwyn Insley and Charelle Pere (Careers New Zealand) will present findings from the Whanau Decision Making Project.

Dr Lynette Reid is Ngati Porou and grew up in Whangara.  She attended Lytton High School and has completed her university studies at Massey University and the University of Auckland.  She is currently a Senior Lecturer at AUT University in the Graduate Diploma in Career Development and Master of Career Development.  She has worked in the career field for over 15 years in a range of positions and working with diverse client groups.

Dr Reid will present significant findings from her recently completed PhD.  A major aim of this study was to provide Maori with the opportunity to share how they make sense of their work, life and career stories by placing personal cultural themes at the forefront.  A key result from this study is the recognition of how diversity among Maori is enacted in career.  This will be illustrated in a discussion of a new typology of cultural career identities based on the findings of this study.  The typology is characterized according to three categories based on cultural and career features: first, the 'cloaked'; second, the 'seeker'; and third, the 'keeper'.  Her presentation will examine the implications for Maori career practitioners and non-Maori career practitioners based on the typology when working with Maori and a newly emerging model from her research findings.

Selwyn Insley and Charelle Pere from Career Services will be presenting a workshop on the research findings of the Whanau Decision Project and the next phase of research currently being undertaken.

The workshop will focus on Te Tukirunga as a model of engagement to work with whanau and will explore the importance of relationships when working within a whanau context. The co-construction process will also be discussed to assist practitioners to work effectively with Maori whanau.

Please RSVP Richard Sevicke-Jones at richard.jones@careers.govt.nz by the 11th May.