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Tannis GoddardEnglish / WorkshopOnline narratives as a reflective career guidance process: Using web-spaces tostory career identityAbstractThis workshop will explore how interactive online spaces can offer a new model for deliveringguidance services that leverages the power of story and constructive writing between clients andpractitioners. As individuals seek career support across their life-span, many questions are emergingabout how to effectively ensure that services and interventions are available to reach clients acrosscultures, geography and with varying personal needs. Thoughtful use of interactive web spaces canenable practitioners and clients to leverage the power of a global technology as a space for intimatenarrative communication. Building from 7 years of innovative experience designing online careerinterventions; training practitioners in online narrative practice; and researching the experience andeffectiveness of online career guidance, the presenter will provide a theoretical framework fordesigning and delivering facilitated online career services and will provide rich demonstrations ofonline services being used with cross-cultural adult populations in Canada. Participants will:• Learn how text based, facilitated, online interventions can use narrative and dialogic processes tosupport clients as they author and construct meaning about their career identity• Gain an overview and understanding about various design considerations when building an onlinecareer guidance interventions• Consider the different counselling techniques required to develop rapport, build a working alliance,and effectively facilitate a client’s process online• Extrapolate the impact, challenges and opportunities of facilitated online career guidance withinmulti-lingual, cross-cultural and multi-cultural contexts.About the presenterDesignation:Organization:Contact Information:email:Language:Type of Presentation:Founder and PresidentTraining Innovations Inc.600 – 4180 Lougheed Hwy, Burnaby, BC, Canada.tannis.goddard@training-innovations.comEnglishWorkshopTannis is the founder and President of Training Innovations, a career development organization that delivers communitybasedcareer services in British Columbia, Canada. Tannis has 20 years experience designing services and interventionsthat address life-span career development and learning needs. Tannis has also led the design and development of anonline career learning platform that has been used to deliver a range of facilitated online career counselling services andher organization is the first to deliver such services in Canada. In 2007, Tannis won the Award of Excellence from theCareer Management Association of BC and was a nominated finalist in for Canada’s Top 40 under 40 Leadership Award.Tannis is currently completing her Doctorate at the University of Sheffield and through her research is building apedagogical framework for the design and delivery of facilitated online career learning.112IAEVG-Jiva Conference, India, 2010