3930 - INTERCULTURAL, INTERSECTIONAL AND DIALOGICAL CAREER COUNSELLING: HELPING EMERGENT ADULTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH FACING THE CHALLENGES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

Session: 3928 - CAREER COUNSELLOCENE: EMPOWERING YOUTH FOR SUSTAINABLE CAREER-LIFE CHOICES AMID ANTHROPOCENE TRANSITIONS
AUTHORS:
Ribeiro Marcelo Afonso (University of São Paulo ~ São Paulo ~ Brazil)
Abstract text:
The field of career counselling has been challenged by the accelerated and complex transformations that the social and working world has been experiencing, especially concerning the need to confront the technological and digital transformations, climate change, the intensification of inequality and social injustice, the flexibilisation and precarisation of work, and the individualisation of life with the consequent individualisation of careers and potentiation of liminal working identities. This situation has led emergent adults to the anguish of not knowing how to make choices and transitions, develop projects, and build careers because they should reinvent themselves to deal with the transformations of the working world and dictate the trends for their future. Inspired by the Career Counsellocene idea, we aim to discuss the possibilities and limits of a career counselling practice toward diversified ways to promote dignified working trajectories and deal with the ongoing changes generated by the Anthropocene. Thus, the core attitudes for practices are situated knowledge, intersectional and intercultural vision, and action, an intervention that extends to the social (communitarian practice), logic of co-construction, promotion of narrative change, social repositioning, and discursive validation, and assume the person as a subject with rights, choices, and discourses. For this, diversity, intersectionality, interculturality, solidarity, dialogicity, and dignity should be our principles. We should shift from adaptation to transformation and turn career counselling into a practice of advocacy and promoting rights by building working trajectories that respect the person based on who they are and what they do or intend to do, and not on who we think they should be or do, thus making other possible worlds possible, aiming for emancipation, not just adaptation. Limitations and potentialities will be discussed by analysing scenes from career counselling interventions.