Live Webinars

JCDA/APCDA Workshop:

Career Construction Theory and the Human Web

Fri Apr 14/Sat Apr 15, 2023

One of APCDA’s goals is to build collaboration across member countries. The Japan Career Development Association (JCDA) is offering APCDA members the opportunity to join them in using the Career Construction Theory by Dr. Mark Savickas to revitalize the community, a process they used successfully in Japan for over a year.  This workshop will help us to build a Human Web of career practitioners across many countries.  In this workshop, participants will share & reflect on their own career journey, purpose, and future possibilities.

Please find the time in your location:

Americas	Fri Apr 14	Asia & Pacific	Sat Apr 15
North America East Coast	10-12:30 PM *	Samoa	3 – 5:30 PM
North America Central	9 -11:30 PM *	New Zealand	2 - 4:30 PM
North America Mountain	8 - 10:30 PM *	East Australia, Guam	Noon– 2:30 PM
North America Pacific	7- 9:30 PM *	Central Australia	11:30 AM – 2 PM
Hawaii	4 – 6:30 PM	Korea, Japan	11 AM – 1:30 PM
		China, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Western Australia	10 AM -12:30 PM
		Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia	9 - 11:30 AM
		Bangladesh, Kazakhstan	8 – 10:30 AM
		Nepal	7:45 – 10:15 AM
		India, Sri Lanka	7:30 – 10 AM
		Pakistan	7 – 9:30 AM
		Azerbaijan	6 – 8:30 AM

* We believe this region is observing daylight savings time

Cost: Free to Members, Non-members: High-income country: Professional $10, Student $5; Not high-income country: Professional $5, Student $2.50

Limit:  20 English-speaking attendees

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Detailed Description: JCDA is an organization of career counselors in Japan, founded in 2000, with more than 20,000 members. JCDA aims to be a community that emphasizes many connections, including the connections between companies and society, between members, past and present, and across countries and regions, and JCDA has named the future of the JCDA community "Human Web," a community that believes in the potential of people. In order to experience this "Human Web," the "Narrative Workshop" (based on Career Construction Theory), has been held regularly since 2022, has been well received for its simple structure that traces the "past, present, and future" of CDA as a story. This year's event will be the fifth in the series, and will be held jointly with APCDA.

In this time of unprecedented events such as COVID-19 and the invasion of Ukraine, boundaries between work and life, between countries, between my values and your values, and between areas of career support are disappearing. Under such circumstances, the ability of career practitioners to adapt to the environment in a "flexible, resilient, and effective" manner while valuing "who you are" will be increasingly sought after. Based on this idea, the "Narrative Workshop" was born as an engine for activating communities to transcend boundaries and expand their wings from within themselves to the outside. While we have been conducting workshops for JCDA members in Japan, we have decided to expand the wings of our activities globally and provide a forum for APCDA and JCDA members to talk with each other about their careers across cultures. We look forward to welcoming anyone interested in the careers of career counselors and support initiatives in Japan.

Contents:

1. Inspirational Talks: Guest speakers Ms. Yoshimi Sasaki of JCDA and Dr. Marilyn Maze of APCDA will introduce the respective activities of their associations.
2. Group work “Career Construction Theory”: Participants will share their "past," "present," and "future" stories. Participants will reflect on why they became career practitioners, and the challenges and concerns they currently face as career practitioners.

Please Note: We are looking for participants who can attend the entire workshop.  We will be conducting group work using Zoom breakout sessions, so we ask that you turn on your video camera to participate. The workshop will be recorded but the group work will be excluded from the recording. The recording will be distributed at a later date.

Guest Speakers Bios

Mr. Yoshio Ohara is President and researcher of the Japan Career Development Association (JCDA), a non-profit organization. He holds a master’s degree in Psychology from the Graduate School of Psychology, and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Tokyo. After working for Nippon Manpower Co., Ltd. in the development of "Career Counselor Training Course" and serving as a director, he assumed his current position in 2017. His areas of expertise are career counseling and career development. His main publications include "Textbook of Career Counselor Training Course" (editor, Nihon Manpower, 2010) and "Narrative/Social Constructivism Career Counseling for Practitioners" (editor, Fukumura Publishing, 2017) MBTI certified user.

Ms. Yoshimi Sasaki is the Director General of the Japan Career Development Association (JCDA) Secretariat. As a human resources professional, Yoshimi has worked in a global company and an international organization based in Tokyo. She has enjoyed working with people with different cultures and nationalities throughout her career. She holds a B.A. in international politics, economics and business from Aoyama Gakuin University.

Ms. Momoko Asaka is APCDA President and CEO of Veriteworks, graduated in Arts in Library and Information Science from Keio University, Japan. JCDA Certified Career Development Adviser, JPA Certified Psychologist, Mental Health Legal Advisor, Health and Productivity Management Advisor. Started an independent business after working as medical corporation staff, HR staff of a large company, an HR director of a private IT company. She has participated in all the conferences since 2013 and held many leadership roles.  She hopes to contribute to the welcoming community spirit of APCDA.

Dr. Marilyn Maze, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Career Development Association. She has organized the annual APCDA Conference since its inception, conducted numerous research projects on significant labor market and career counseling issues, and presented at international conferences. Dr. Maze is a Fellow of the National Career Development Association and she received NCDA’s Eminent Career Award in 2022, the NCDA President’s Award in 2016, and the NCDA Credentialing Commission Service Award in 2016.