An innovative tool called ‘life space mapping’ is used by multicultural career counsellors in career guidance. It is employed in a counselling process for counsellees such as refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers in order to help them to value their biographical learning (formal, non-formal and informal) in a lifelong process of constructing their careers. This counsellor`s method of working is based on multicultural counselling which respects life experiences and cultural values of the client. The practice of basic principles of this method includes: a cooperation and communication through dialogue between a counsellor and a client, comprehensive and metaphorical thinking, meaning-making and active participation of the help seeker. The main goal of workshops, conducted in Greece and Hungary, was to discuss and analyse the various counsellees` biographical components (biographical symbols, biographical life span of time divided in past, present, future) which influence effective vocational choices of clients from different cultures. The workshops were realised in a combination of working on one’s own, play group, common and personal reflection. In addition, participants had an opportunity of looking through their biographies as a counsellor, including intercultural exchange with other members of that workshop.
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