UNESCO Chair on Lifelong Guidance and Counseling

We have completed our Erasmus+ BIP programme: 🌿 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞 🌿

It was an intensive week, but above all, an incredibly inspiring time filled with meetings, dialogue, reflection, and the co-creation of hope 🌿. Together, we created an international space for learning, sharing experiences, and building a community around counselling, education, and life design in times of uncertainty and the challenges of the Anthropocene 🌿.

We would like to warmly thank everyone who delivered lectures and workshops for the participants:

🌍 Prof. 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐚 𝐃𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞 (University of Lisbon, UNESCO Chair – University of Wrocław) – for inviting us to reflect on the relationship between utopia, the Anthropocene, and hope.

🌱 Prof. 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐞́𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐧-𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢 (INETOP-CNAM, UNESCO Chair – University of Wrocław) – for showing the importance of counselling dialogues in Eco-Life Design.

⚖️ Prof. Sanna Vehviläinen (University of Eastern Finland) – for reflecting on guidance as an art of balance and interaction.

🎲 Prof. 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐱-𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐬 and Prof. 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐞 (Université Paris Nanterre) – for creating a space of collaboration, play, and creativity in career guidance, and for showing how shared play can become a meaningful space for dialogue and sense-making.

🎨 Prof. 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐮𝐲𝐚𝐮𝐝 (University of Bordeaux) – for exploring resonance and creative approaches to guidance.

🌳 Prof. Maria Paula Paixão (University of Coimbra) – for presenting paths, roots and flows as a metaphor of hope in Life Design Counselling.

🌿 Dr Violetta Podgórna – for guiding us in moving from uncertainty and failure towards hope, and for working with metaphor in the unique space of the University of Wrocław Arboretum in Wojsławice.

Heartfelt thanks to the Life Design Student Research Group UWr - Koło Naukowe Life Designing for leading the workshop on the emotional compass of hope and future narratives, as well as for their help in organising the BIP programme, preparing icebreakers and energisers, and creating a welcoming atmosphere that helped integrate the group 💚.

Special thanks also go to all programme participants – students from Ecole de Psychologues Praticiens, Université de Bordeaux, Université Paris Nanterre, Universidade de Lisboa – for their engagement, openness, inspiration, and for co-creating this unique space of dialogue 💚.

We would also like to thank everyone who supported the organisation of the programme: our project partners from Universidade de Lisboa, Ecole de Psychologues Praticiens, Université de Bordeaux, Université Paris Nanterre, Inetop Cnam, Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra, Itä-Suomen yliopisto - University of Eastern Finland (UEF); Barbara Skałacka-Harrold and Barbara Pietrzkiewicz from International Office - University of Wroclaw; Elżbieta Bartoszyńska, Aleksandra Kwit from the Arboretum Wojsławice, Aleksander Grzeszczak from Szybka Kawka Wojsławice, the Transport Department - Ilona Rogozińska-Bielańska for organising the transport and bus arrangements, and Marzena Szlosek-Starzak, Head of the Student Residence Halls, for her help with organising accommodation for participants.

We are also grateful to the team of the Instytut Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego - especially Prof. Martyna Pryszmont - Director of the Institute of Pedagogy or supporting all the initiatives of the UNESCO Chair; Dr Hanna Achremowicz - Erasmus+ Programme Coordinator - for her constant readiness to sign all the necessary documents; Dr Marta Kondracka-Szala - for her support and words of encouragement. Ms Joanna Pasiewicz for handling all formal financial matters. Special thanks also to Dr Marek Podgórny for his enormous organisational support, for making sure that every detail was perfectly taken care of, and for capturing the atmosphere of this week in wonderful photographs 📸

To all of you – thank you for your kindness, commitment, and care in creating an atmosphere of cooperation and a true community of hope 💚.

We return with new questions, new relationships, new reflections – and above all, with hope 🌱🍀🌿

🌿 The Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) Erasmus+ organised by the UNESCO Chair Lifelong Guidance and Counselling University of Wrocław is starting soon:

𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞

This programme creates a unique space for students, doctoral researchers and academic staff from different countries to explore together the future of education, guidance, hope and life design in times of uncertainty and rapid change.

Participants will have the opportunity to:
✨ work with international researchers and trainers,
✨ explore innovative counselling and educational methods,
✨ learn through experience, dialogue and reflection,
✨ exchange perspectives across cultures and professional contexts,
✨ develop key competencies needed in the Anthropocene era.

Join us and become part of an international Laboratory of Competence, dialogue and hope 🌱

more: https://unesco.uwr.edu.pl/bip-life-design-for-hope-the-laboratory-of-core-educational-and-counselling-competencies-in-the-anthropocene/

International Office - University of Wroclaw

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