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FOSTERING MEANINGFUL
CONNECTIONS
& COMMUNITY
IN CHALLENGING TIMES
VIRTUAL • INTERACTIVE • LIVE • ON DEMAND
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IGC NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021
17th April 2021 • www.igc.ie
Main Sponsor
TU DublinTable of
CONTENTS
Welcome & Thank you from the IGC President 3
Conference Programme 9
Workshop Sessions 11
IGC Conference Speakers 13
President’s Address & Reports 21
Infinite Possibilities at TU Dublin 46
A Guide to Accessing the IGC Virtual Conference 54
Exciting Times at IT Sligo 60
Sponsor Acknowledgment 65
List of Sponsors and Exhibitors 67
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THANK YOU
Dear Conference Delegate,
A warm welcome to you all to the 2021 IGC annual conference. Our first ever virtual
conference! The National Executive and I are very excited about this unique conference, as
it will offer you a blend of Virtual, Interactive, Live and On-Demand cutting edge guidance
counselling content.
Once again I wish to acknowledge our main sponsors TU Dublin, our supporting sponsors IT
Sligo and our minor sponsors, Careers Portal, LYIT and Maynooth University. Their collegiality
and generosity are much appreciated in the challenging times and uncharted water we are
currently navigating.
The theme for Conference 2021 is Fostering Meaningful Connections & Community in
Challenging Times. With a pandemic still raging across the globe for a full calendar year
now, never was a conference theme more apt or more needed. As you know, this year in
particular, I am encouraging you to practice self-care. We are all mindful that in the virtual
world of work that we are currently navigating, that care must extend to include caring for
our community of colleagues both within and outside of the IGC. Like a gorgeous tapestry
made up of many different colours, textures, patterns and strength of threads, working
together with stakeholders and education partners we are more colourful, more resilient and
more relevant. Without a sense of community we would wear out, unravel and eventually
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Welcome & Thank you
“We are all a thread in the talent tapestry. A snapshot in the cosmic, collective collage.”
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Since March 2020, we have been tested in challenging times beyond anything most of us
have experienced in our working lives. We have learnt new skills, upped our game with regard
to IT, adapted continuously to new challenges and threats. Over 12 months later we have
reinvented ourselves to continue to deliver a first class guidance service to the learners
across the lifespan in our care. Take a bow. You are an impressive bunch, guidance
counsellors of Ireland!
At the conference launch I cautioned you to please fasten your seatbelts
for a high tech, interactive, international event that will set you up for the
rest of the academic year. Please have your oatmeal on the morning of the
conference so that you can keep up with the pace!
This year, in the context that we are hosting an online conference and we can benefit from
our swish hi-tech online platform, we have taken the opportunity to invite not one, but two,
international keynote speakers to address delegates at our annual conference. This is a rare
treat and one of those situations when COVID-19 does you a favour. Both of these speakers
are luminaries in our field.
Dr. Raimo Vuorinen works as Project manager at the Finnish Institute for Educational
Research.
• His research interest is on evidence based lifelong guidance policy
development and the use of ICT in guidance.
• He has also held the position of Co-ordinator of the European Lifelong
Guidance Policy Network.
Dr. Spencer Niles serves as professor of counsellor education for William & Mary College.
In addition, Dr Niles is:
• Current president of the National Career Development Association.
• Has co-authored over 120 publications
• Both of our speakers serve on the International Centre for Career Development
and Public Policy Executive Board.
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La Pièce de resistance - the 16 workshops on offer on the day will be available to you to
view and experience from the comfort of your own home for 30 days post conference. This
high quality CPD will sustain you through the twilight of COVID-19.
We know a virtual conference is not the same as a physical conference where you can meet
all of your 3 dimensional colleagues! So we have subvented the cost of the conference to
support your ability to attend and participate, members will pay €30, retired and student
members will pay €20. And if that is not enough, attending your annual conference is also
worth 4.5 CPD hours.
Your National Executive and I very much look forward to welcoming you all to the 2021 IGC
conference and will catch up with you in our virtual meeting rooms. We hope you thoroughly
enjoy and benefit from this once a year CPD and community experience.
Beatrice Dooley,
President of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors.
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PROGRAMME
From Monday 12th April
From Pre conference browsing Get to Know Your Virtual Surroundings
8.00am experience and Book Chats with Exhibitors.
Saturday 17th April
8.00am Meet other delegates and Head over to the Main Conference Chatroom
9.00am Visit Exhibitor Booths to meet other delegates, book chats with
exhibitors and view resources.
9.00am - Welcome Addresses & A Ms Beatrice Dooley, President, Institute
9.10am Guide to Conference of Guidance Counsellors
Dr Mary Meaney, Registrar and Deputy
President, TU Dublin
Mr Justin McGree, Vice President, Institute
of Guidance Counsellors
9.10am – Workshop Sessions 1 See page 11 for full list of Workshops
9.55am (8 workshops) presented at this time.
9.55am – Networking & Coffee Break Grab a coffee join the chat, and visit the
10:35am exhibitors in the exhibition hall.
10:35am – Keynote Presentations 1 Ms Norma Foley, TD, Minister for Education
11:45am Ms Beatrice Dooley, President, Institute of
Guidance Counsellors
Professor David Fitzpatrick, President, TU Dublin
Dr Raimo Vuorinen, Project Manager at
the Finish Institute for Educational
Research, at the University of Jvyäskylä
11:45am – Workshop Sessions 2 See page 11 for full list of Workshops
12:30pm (8 workshops) presented at this time.
12.30pm – Networking & Lunch Break Grab your lunch, join the chat, and visit
1:10pm the exhibitors in the exhibition hall.
1.10pm – Keynote Presentations 2 Ms Beatrice Dooley, President, Institute of
1:50pm Guidance Counsellors
Mr Simon Harris, Minister for Further and Higher
Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Dr Brendan McCormack, President, IT Sligo
Professor Spencer Niles, Counsellor Education
Programme, University of William and Mary
1.50pm – Closing Address Ms Beatrice Dooley, President,
2.00pm Institute of Guidance Counsellors
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SESSIONS
WORKSHOP SESSION 1
A The Impact of Injustice: Supporting Students Dr Damien Sweeney
Experiencing Race-Based Stress and Trauma
B A workshop presented by the Logistics and Supply Lorcan Sheehan,
Chain Skills Group established following the EGFSN Dr Alan Power and
publication “Addressing the Skills Needs Arising from Dr Jane M O’Keeffe
the Potential Trade Implications of Brexit”
C Responding to Critical Incidents During COVID-19 David Carroll and
Deirdre Folan
D 12 Step Addition Recovery for Adolescents: Aiseiri Aislinn Dr Sophia Keane
E Languages: a Powerful Asset! Sandrine Pac-Kenny
F Digitalised Guidance Inspectorate Team
and NCGE team
G Resources for Newly Qualified Guidance Counsellors Brian Wall
& a Refresher Course on Resources for Experienced
Guidance Counsellors
H Using Design Thinking To Explore Career Motivations Dave Kilmartin
and Make Informed Decisions
WORKSHOP SESSION 2
I Integrating Career Sector and Labour Market Eimear Sinnott and
Information within Guidance Counselling Practice Bernadette Walsh
J Supporting our Transgender Students Workshop Sinéad Murray
K Integrated Guidance in the Pandemic and Beyond Tristram Hooley
L Cultivating Self-Care & Resilience in Challenging Niamh Digan
Times Through Mindfulness Meditation and
Self-Compassionate Practice
M Grieving Students: Finding Ways to Offer Support Dr Aoife Lynam
N The Construction Industry – a World of Opportunity Dermot Carey
O Future FET: Transforming Learning and the FET College Nessa White
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P Design Your Life: the evolving world of design careers'. Rosemary Steen,
Design and Crafts Council Ireland and Institute of CEO DCCI and
Designers Ireland. Charlotte Barker,
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SPEAKERS
Beatrice Dooley is the President of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors (IGC)
and has served as IGC President for the past three years. With the IGC, she has
previously served as Vice President, Chair of the Labour Market Subcommittee,
and National Executive representative for South Dublin branch. Before that she
taught English and French before working as a full time guidance counsellor.
During a career break, whilst working as a lecturer in Griffith College, she
designed and delivered a module in Career Guidance. This experience was the
catalyst for her evolution into guidance counselling.
Beatrice She was awarded 1st class Honours with Distinction for a MSc in Career
Dooley Guidance from Ulster University. She is also a graduate of MU (BA & Higher
Diploma in Education), UL (Post Graduate Diploma in Guidance Counselling),
President of the
NCI (Post Graduate Diploma in HRM with Business).
Institute of
Guidance
Counsellors (IGC) She represented the IGC on the recent Steering Committee for the Review of
Career Guidance (Ministerial appointment), and currently represents the Institute
on a number of Steering Committees and Boards including: Senior Cycle Board
NCCA, Junior Cycle Board NCCA, Access Steering Group for HEIs, QQI PRSB, EGFSN
DCCI, CIF and DoE Careers in Computer Science Advisory Groups.
Within the IGC she sits on the following IGC subcommittees: Finance,
Constitution, CPD, Labour Market, PR subcommittees in addition to the
Professional Practice Working Group. She has been published in a wide variety
of national, regional and educational publications in addition to promoting the
goals of the IGC whilst speaking at regular stakeholder events and in numerous
TV and radio interviews. Beatrice is committed to improving accessibility and
standards of CPD and developed the IGC National Strategic Baseline CPD plan
(Phase 1 and Phase 2) that has been rolled out over the past three years. Last
summer she led the successful campaign with NPCpp, USSI and UNICEF to
deliver the final 100 posts to guidance counselling.
Dr Mary Meaney is Registrar and Deputy President of Technological University
Dublin. As inaugural President of Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dr
Meaney developed the reputation of ITB as an accessible and regionally
responsive institution, working with education, industry and civic partners.
Seconded to the role of Programme Leader for the Technological University for
Dublin project, Dr Meaney coordinated the preparation of the submission by
the former DIT, ITB and ITT to become Ireland’s first Technological University.
Dr Mary Following the establishment of TU Dublin. Dr Meaney was appointed to the role
Meaney of Registrar and Deputy President and is working to develop the University’s
unique education model.
Registrar and
Deputy President of
Technological
University Dublin
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Justin McGree is a full-time guidance counsellor, teacher and AP1 holder in
Patrician Presentation Secondary School, Fethard - a small DEIS school in Co.
Tipperary. He has been teaching for over 20 years and practicing as a guidance
counsellor for the majority of these years.
On behalf of the Tipperary branch, he has served on the National Executive of IGC
since Feb 2015. Elected Vice President of IGC in Nov. 2017, he currently chairs IGC
National Executive meetings, sits on the Finance Subcommittee and has
previously held NE roles including Standing Orders Committee Chair and
Justin Constitution Subcommittee Convenor.
McGree
Currently, Justin manages the IGC website, deals with (referred) member queries,
Vice President,
arranges for updates to the member database system, devises member surveys,
Institute of
Guidance makes necessary arrangements for AGMs (including the AGM handbook) and
Counsellors liaises annually with the Conference Organiser in conference
organisation/planning. He also deputises for the IGC President for meetings,
committee work, press interviews etc., where required. He is company secretary
for IGC (as a limited company) and acts as liaison to the auditor, Companies
Registration Office and Charities Regulator. Justin was also appointed in 2018 by
the Minister as the IGC nominee on the Management of Guidance Committee,
which reports to the Department of Education.
Norma Foley is the Minister for Education. She was appointed to this role in June
2020.
Norma was elected to represent the Kerry constituency in the 2020 general
election.
She was previously a member of Kerry County Council for the Tralee area, serving
from 1994 until her election to the Dáil in 2020. She also served as a member of
Tralee Urban District Council until its abolition in 2014.
Norma Foley, TD
Minister for Eduction
Professor David FitzPatrick is the inaugural President of Technological
University Dublin (TU Dublin). Professor FitzPatrick joined TU Dublin on its
foundation day, 01 January 2019.
Having studied for his Doctorate in Biomechanics from University of Oxford
he worked in industry for some years before taking up an academic
appointment at UCD, ultimately becoming Principal of the College of
Engineering & Architecture and Dean of Engineering.
Professor As President of the first Technological University in Ireland, he is committed
David to creating opportunities for access to higher education at all levels. Drawing
FitzPatrick on the strengths of its founding institutions, he has established the new
university’s strategic direction to 2030 under three pillars of People, Planet
President, and Partnership.
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Dr Raimo Vuorinen works as Project manager at the Finnish Institute for
Educational Research (FIER) at the University of Jyväskylä. His research
interest is on evidence based lifelong guidance policy development and the
use of ICT in guidance.
In 2007-15 he was the Co-ordinator of the European Lifelong Guidance Policy
Network, ELGPN. He is the Chair of Board of the International Centre for Career
Development and Public Policies, ICCDPP and a member of the ETF Editorial
Dr Raimo Board. Dr Vuorinen is also an Affiliate Professor with the Faculty of Education
Vuorinen and the Centre for Labour Studies at the University of Malta and an Overseas
Finnish Institute fellow of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, NICEC
for Educational (UK).
Research
Simon Harris is the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation
and Science.
He previously served as Minister for Health from May 2016 to June 2020, and as
Minister of State at the Departments of Finance PER and Taoiseach with Special
Responsibility for the OPW, Public Procurement, and International Banking (incl
IFSC) from 2014 to 2016.
Simon was first elected as a TD in 2011 and served as a member of the Oireachtas
Public Accounts Committee.
Simon Harris
Minister for Further Simon’s involvement in politics began after he established an Autism support and
and Higher Education, lobby group in County Wicklow to seek to give a voice to people living with Autism
Research, Innovation and their families and to articulate their concerns and needs.
and Science Simon is married and a father of one.
Dr Brendan McCormack is the President of the Institute of Technology, Sligo
since September 2016. IT Sligo is a higher education institution located in the
north-west of Ireland, with in excess of 8,000 students and is a national leader
in the delivery of online/blended learning programmes for employee
education. Brendan is a graduate of University College Dublin (Bachelor
Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and a PhD in 1997) and of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA (Masters of Science in Engineering).
He has published academic papers in the area of medical device design.
Brendan has been variously Head of Academic Affairs, Head of School of
Dr Brendan Engineering and Head of Department of Mechanical and Electronic
McCormack Engineering at IT Sligo, and has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering
at UCD. He has also conducted research at the University of Leeds and the
President of the
Institute of University of Minnesota, USA. He co-founded and led the UCD-TCD
Technology, Sligo Bioengineering Research Centre and was deeply involved in building up
research in this field in Ireland. Brendan has supervised many masters and
doctoral theses, has 6 patents, and over 200 articles in the areas of
biomechanics and has developed national strategic plans for the Irish
medical devices sector. Prior to taking up the post of IT Sligo President,
Brendan was Project Manager for the Connacht-Ulster Alliance, which is the
coming together of GMIT, IT Sligo and LYIT to become a technological
university. Brendan hopes to see this ambition realised in 2021. He hill walks,
sails, and minds the bees when he is not working.
17Conference Speakers
Prof Spencer Niles serves as Professor in the Counselor Education Program at the
university of William & Mary. Previously, he served as Dean of the School of
Education at William & Mary. He was also a Distinguished Professor and
Department Head for Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education
at the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State, he
served as Professor of Counselor Education at the University of Virginia. Spencer
Niles is a Past-President of Chi Sigma Iota International and was twice the
President of the National Career Development Association (NCDA).
Prof Spencer
G. Niles He is the recipient of the NCDA Eminent Career Award. Niles is a Fellow of the
National Career Development Association and the American Counseling
Professor, University
Association. He has received numerous awards from the American
of William & Mary
Counseling Association (ACA) including the Thomas Hohenshil Research
Award, the Thomas Sweeney Visionary Leadership and Advocacy Award, the
President’s Award, the David Brooks Distinguished Mentor Award, the ACA
Extended Research Award, and the Visionary Leader and Advocate Award.
He received the Noted Scholar Award from the University of British Columbia.
Niles is a Fellow of ACA and NCDA. He served as two-term Editor for The
Career Development Quarterly, Editor for the Journal of Counseling &
Development, and continues to serve on numerous journal editorial boards.
He has authored or co-authored approximately 140 publications and
delivered over 150 presentations at national and international conferences.
His book Career Development Interventions (6th edition) is the best-selling
career text in the world. His forthcoming co-authored books are titled Career
Flow and Development: Hope-Action Theory and Career Recovery: Creating
Careers with Hope in Difficult Times.
19President’s
REPORT
Dear Delegate,
As we brace ourselves for our second alone. Help, support, a sounding board and
calendar year navigating the challenges advice is only a zoom/phone call or an email
presented by COVID-19, you continue to away. I would like to take this opportunity to
deliver a first class guidance counselling once again encourage you all to sign up for
service nationwide to learners across the one of the CPD options available on the IGC
lifespan. I am very proud to be the elected website. Regular CPD, regular attendance at
President of such a resilient and dedicated counselling supervision and connecting with
membership. Your continued professionalism supportive colleagues at branch meetings
and commitment to those in your care is will sustain us though what lies ahead. High
commendable. quality CPD provision and a first class
conference will be essential for the welfare of
Since our last conference in NUIG, it has been our members during this pandemic and in its
an exceptionally busy 12 months with a regular wake. What follows is my report from April
diary of meetings and a steady stream of 2020 to the February 2021, (time of printing).
queries from our own members, educational
partners, stakeholders, media and the public.
What has become evident is that living with REPRESENTATIONS AT FORA
COVID-19 our workload is increasing AND MEETINGS
incrementally and many things that we had Meeting with IGC Branch Treasurers
nailed in practice are out the window as we and Chairpersons
have to find new ways to operate,
communicate and function. COVID-19 has
The Vice President and I hosted a meeting
incurred additional time intensive layers of
with IGC Branch Treasurers and Chairpersons
communications and administrative work.
in December 2020. We had a very positive
meeting with representation from most of our
It has been a very challenging year for us all;
16 branches. We will organise a similar event
we have needed to prioritise goals and
for branch secretaries. We took the
objectives for the year wisely. This is a virus
opportunity to clarify:
that is claiming lives with as yet unknown
long-term implications. Collegiality, cooperation • Implications of SORP, consolidation of
and self-care will be our mantra this year as our accounts, Charitable Status for
we preserve energy and resources for big the branches
ticket items.
• The rationale behind the National
We need to, now more than ever, support Strategic CPD plan
each other, work collaboratively with our
• Strategic Plans needed for branch CPD
IGC/work colleagues, our educational
going forward
partners and stakeholders. We work in
isolation from each other geographically but • Good governance at branch level
is important to remember that we are not
21IGC National Conference 2021
Many thanks to our branch officers for joining managerial bodies to relay the need to
this meeting after a busy day at work. We allocate the 120 posts to the guidance
appreciate their continued commitment and counsellors in their schools. We are deeply
contribution to the overall workload of appreciative of the continued support and
running the organisation. commitment from ISSU, NPCPP and UNICEF to
our cause and recognise that we are a
Collaboration with ISSU, NPCPP, ETB NPA, significantly more influential force with these
UNICEF and IGC and the campaign for full strong stakeholders by our side.
restoration of guidance allocations last
summer. I flagged to you last term that I re-activated
this powerful collaboration which was so
I spent last summer lobbying vigorously & impactful last summer. Both ISSU and NPCPP
continuously with stakeholders, using the spoke in support of the IGC before the
media to maximum effect with the goal of Oireachtas in the last week of November. In
securing our guidance counselling December I worked with these organisations
allocations. I was approached by UNICEF to collaborate on communications outlining
early in the summer and asked to spearhead our concerns to Minister Foley. In their letters,
a campaign with this aim. I approached ISSU ISSU, ETB NPA, UNICEF and NPCPP supported
and NPCPP and secured their support. We IGC in flagging the need for greater clarity in
had several meetings on line together and the recent circular that pertains to the 120
collaborated on a media campaign to this posts restored for guidance counsellors.
end. Two Press Releases, a survey between
ISSU & NPCpp, a flurry of radio interviews and
social media engagements were
instrumental to this campaign. The ISSU were
influential in securing an invitation for me to
a meeting with DES and NEPS personnel back
in August.
When the wonderful announcement was
made that 120 posts be returned, I continued
to lobby the DES, Minister Foley and the
Taoiseach to furnish all principals with an
urgent amendment to recent circulars. The
circular needed to state that the managerial ISSU have indicated they would like to
bodies would commit to deploy the 120 posts collaborate with IGC on a new campaign to
to guidance counsellors for the delivery of ensure the provision of guidance counselling
guidance counselling. Concurrently, I worked to students now that learning has moved on-
closely with the ISSU, NPCPP, ETBNPA and line again. I recently met with their Welfare
UNICEF who continue to support the IGC in Officers to discuss this, ISSU have 22 Welfare
our collaboration to ensure that our Officers who span TY to 6th year and are a
allocations are restored. I contacted all seriously impressive group of young people.
22President’s Address & Reports
Highlights from meetings with exploration of subconscious processes
Policy Makers and the resolution of deep-seated
conflicts is not generally appropriate for
Meeting with Minister Foley this age group or context.” (DES 20131).
• Solution - Young people want to be
Minister Foley invited the IGC to a meeting to listened to, to be understood, to get things
discuss the collaboration with UNICEF, ISSU off their chest. When given the resources
and NPCpp last term. Niamh Norris and I met to do so, this is exactly what guidance
with Minister Foley & her Policy Advisor, our counsellors do. Resource us appropriately.
Guidance Counselling Inspector Esther Doyle The one to one aspect of the role needs to
and Evelyn O’Connor from CAP (DoE). The be safeguarded for both Junior Cycle and
meeting lasted for over one hour. I presented Senior Cycle students in order to offer
the policy stance on a range of challenges appropriate support to students.
and solutions (see below) and Niamh
reinforced these with practical examples. • Challenge – Insufficient resources/
This approach worked very well. I allocations for guidance counselling in our
commenced by outlining our role, working schools. Timetabling us to teach classes
context, holistic approach etc… in other subjects takes time from one to
one guidance counselling.
Next I flagged the Collaboration with UNICEF, • Solution – Pre COVID-19 we needed as an
ISSU and NPCpp as Minister Foley had absolute minimum a return to pre 2012
expressed interest in this in her invitation to allocations (as per circular PPT 12/05
meet and then presented a series of which recommends 24 hrs weekly per
Challenges & solutions as follows: 500-599 students) for guidance
counselling. We now need an urgent
• Challenge – the DES need to ensure the restoration of the ex-quota allocation and
allocation of 120 posts to guidance a guidance enhancement. We require 1-
counsellors and not merely to guidance 250 GC to student’s ratio like the Finnish
urgently for this academic year. Clarity is model which is funded separately from
needed on how many posts have teacher funding. With accountability/
returned to guidance counselling. transparency at core. It is a model of
• Solution – amend the most recent excellence we could emulate if
circular to specify the 120 posts be empowered to do so with accountability/
allocated by school principals to the transparency at core.
qualified guidance counsellor in the
school. • Challenge - Shortages of guidance
counsellors. IGC research (2018; 2019; 20)
• Challenge –The problem with IACP and also shows that in some schools (currently
external providers. Most young people do 22.4%), some aspects of guidance
not need psychotherapy, and there needs counselling are delivered by non-qualified
to be a clear process for identifying those personnel.
who do. “Psychotherapy involving the
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• Solution Baseline CPD designed in response to a
• Provide an allowance for the national survey of our members where
Guidance Counselling Postgraduate they requested RT, CBT. Release for
Qualification (QQI level 9) to encourage attending CPD/supervision, which vital to
new applicants to the training course ensure best practice and avoidance of
and retain current members. litigation. IGC Survey that week showed:
• Create a fast track Practise M.Ed. that • 7.5% of guidance counsellors are
recognises prior learning and practical timetabled and will not be released
work as part of the course work to for CPD.
facilitate qualified guidance • 4.3% of guidance counsellors are
counsellors attaining a teaching timetabled and will not be released
qualification. for counselling supervision.
• Release teachers for postgraduate • 51.3% of guidance counsellors
professional training in guidance say nature of work has increased
counselling and the required since COVID.
professional practicum placement.
• Challenge - Meaningful progress report
• Challenge - the Guidance Enhancement from Guidance Review Implementation
Scheme was removed with the stroke of a Task Force.
pen in 2012. 150 schools benefitted from it. • Solution - Inter departmental
Some of these schools are not DEIS collaboration on guidance counselling at
schools and have been left without policy level – to include Departments of
adequate allocations since 2012 with no Education, Children & Youth Affairs, Health,
solution in sight. Justice & Equality, Employment Affairs and
• Solution – enhanced guidance allocation Social Protection, Business, Enterprise and
should be allocated to guidance Innovation, Dept of Ed, Dept of Further and
counsellors to facilitate our response to: Higher Education/ Research/ Innovation
• Covid-19 and fully addressing the and Science.
needs of students with SEN and/or • We urgently seek a role to ensure our
socio-economic disadvantage. nation promptly develops policy that is
• Supporting the increased number of bottom up and therefore informed by
anxious students presenting at front-line practitioners. We are calling
our doors. for policy that is bottom up as well
• The promotion of apprenticeships, as top down.
traineeships. • A guaranteed voice for guidance
counsellors working with learners
• Challenge – DES directive to principals not across the lifespan on all boards and
to release teachers for CPD this year. committees with mental health and
• Solution – Minister /DES support for IGC labour market interests relevant to
CPD plans and counselling supervision (I our work.
mean practical support). Both currently • Plans to be inclusive of the IGC as the
delivered online. National Strategic professional body for guidance
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Meeting with DoE to discuss wording of
counsellors in stakeholder meetings going Circular for Allocations
forward, we were not included in those
meetings this summer until ISSU Also following on from our meeting with
intervened yet we are the problem Minister Foley, the Vice President and I
solvers on the ground. attended a meeting with DoE officials, a
guidance counselling inspector and NCGE to
Action arising from this meeting – Minister discuss the wording for a circular for
Foley asked me to furnish her with evidence. allocations. The main issues we requested be
I sent on recent IGC survey results and included in addition to points outlined above
individual concerns from members re are:
allocations, release for counselling • The total guidance allocation to the
supervision and CPD. school needs to be allocated to the
qualified guidance counsellor to facilitate
time for individual students and time for
the co-ordination and review of the Whole
School Guidance Plan.
• Schools should release guidance
counsellors to attend CPD and
professional counselling supervision. We
quoted the Framework for Considering
Provision of Guidance in Post Primary
Schools – September 2012 that states:
“School management should facilitate
where possible a Guidance Counsellor
who wishes to attend professional
supervision or continuous professional
development organised through the
Institute of Guidance Counsellors (IGC).
DES communication to school
management to facilitate and support This is not an exhaustive description of points
guidance counsellor’s attendance at discussed, this was a positive meeting. We
counselling supervision and CPD look forward to a progress report from the
DoE on this matter.
Arising from this meeting with Minister Foley
we received a communication from the DoE Review update
that school management would facilitate
and support guidance counsellor’s I have been informed by the DoE that the
attendance at counselling supervision and Implementation Task Force are still working.
CPD. This group will bring recommendations to
management in the DoE shortly. They
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model of guidance counselling. programmes and services. Their insights
and information can inform the
Meeting with Minister Harris development of the FET policy and
strategy going forward within ETBs and
This meeting was also attended by HEA, the wider community.
SOLAS, NCGE, Skillsnet and ETBI
representatives. I highlighted the value of • Our motivation to support Irelands
guidance counselling, our role and the National Skills Strategy 2025 (DES) with
breadth of our service delivering guidance particular reference to the promotion of
counselling to learners across the lifespan. new apprenticeships, traineeships, and
ETBI, SOLAS and HEA flagged the importance other upskilling opportunities while
of our role and praised our LMI (Labour ensuring that our model, ethos and values
Market Initiative) CPD that was rolled out to of guidance are not compromised within
16 branches nationwide last year. that process.
I furnished Minister Harris with a number of
recent IGC submissions including AGA SOLAS meetings
submissions. I explained that the AGA is a
professional, impartial, national educational SOLAS approached me about plans to build
guidance and information service, located on the LMI CPD roll out last year. This work is
within the 16 ETBs. Funded through SOLAS, the at embryo stage, we discussed the type of
AGA supports in excess of 50,000 service information guidance counsellors, parents
beneficiaries on an annual basis. and students need and how to present it. I
flagged the need for their input on
I further flagged the need for the following: communicating information about the future
of work and routes into areas of forecasted
• A Cross Ministerial/ Departmental labour market shortages that will be
Framework Guidance Strategy. impacted on by AI/automation/robotics/Big
Data and the need for a database of local
• The need for an enhanced guidance speakers branch officers can contact to plan
allocation. careers events and work experience.
• The current shortage of guidance In December I met with personnel from
counsellors and the need for more SOLAS again in preparation for the meeting
allocations across the board whilst with Minister Harris.
giving graphic examples of challenges
on the ground.
• An increase in the national budget for
the Adult Guidance Services.
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Senior Cycle Board NCCA / Junior Cycle Colleagues in this situation have spent a lot
Board NCCA/ Access Steering Group for HEIs of money qualifying as guidance counsellors,
just like us. Just like us they have families to
I continue to represent the IGC on these feed and bills to pay. We are not a union; we
boards and attend regular meetings. do not have negotiating rights, but we can
support colleagues.
DCCI & CIF working groups
Presentation to the Department
I was invited to join a working group on of Transport
careers in design DCCI (Design & Crafts I met with representatives from the
Council Ireland) and also another working Department of Transport and made a
group with CIF by EGFSN (Expert Group on presentation about the IGC to assist them in
Future Skills Needs). We are exploring their preparations in advance of delivering
methods they can employ to promote their workshop at conference. This workshop
careers in design and construction related was recommended by the EGFSN (Expert
work to school students. DCCI will present a Group on Future Skills Needs).
workshop at our conference this year.
Presentation at Mental Health Forum
Shortage of Guidance Counsellors and IGC
members without teaching qualifications I was invited to speak at the Mental Health
working in schools and with teaching Forum, Next steps for improving mental
qualifications but who have undergraduate health in Ireland - Sharing the Vision Strategy
degrees in subjects not featuring on the in January 2021. I highlighted that:
curriculum in second level schools.
• Guidance counsellors wish to support
I am receiving regular correspondence from students with special educational needs,
very distressed colleagues in this plight, 42 to socio-economic disadvantage and
date. We have a cohort of IGC members who anxiety – this requires appropriate access.
are struggling to secure continuous work
because they do not have a teaching • Current referral system needs a structure
qualification or they do but their that is incremental with someone to join
undergraduate degree is in subjects not the dots.
found on a school curriculum.
• We need a network of trained personnel in
Now that the final 120 posts have been school to support us in the aftermath of
restored, I am motivated to support our suicides to ensure students receive
members securing these jobs. It is in the best support when it matters. Could a panel of
interests of the Institute that these jobs are part time guidance counsellors be
filled by professional, qualified guidance resourced to offer this support?
counsellors. You are aware that external
service providers are actively moving in to
that space for a number of years now.
29IGC National Conference 2021
Launches have been proactive in updating forms
required to maintain this essential service.
CIF, DCU, NCSE The IGC subcommittee expressed some
concerns about internet access in different
Recent Seminars attended parts of the country and how this is
impacting on the quality of the counselling
QQI, CAO, Higher Options, Tánaiste and CPA, supervision experience. We are looking into
EUNICAS. this currently.
NCGE Managerial Board
The Vice President continues to represent us
on the NCGE Managerial Board and attend
regular meetings.
CAO/ AOA meeting
During this meeting in late January, I
communicated our concerns and the
concerns of ISSU with reference to the
deadlines for CAO/HEAR/DARE. I requested a
4 week extension for all 3 and unpacked the
Steering Committee for Counselling challenges we are all dealing with as schools
Supervision are closed flagging how this slows down the
pace of completing these applications for
I continue to represent the IGC on this our members and for students.
steering committee and attend regular
meetings. Noel Farrell has moved on from his The response from CAO was that they
position of Chair and Aoife Costello is the had 70,000 applications in already;
new Chair of the Steering Committee. We their applications were up on this time last
thank Noel for his work and contribution and year. They did not see the need for this
wish Aoife every happiness and success in extension. CAO and IUA stated DARE/ HEAR
her new role. will not be completed if they move deadlines.
They said they are listening to us and will
take our views on board, IUA want to see how
IGC Counselling Supervision Subcommittee it works out, both CAO and IUA committed
& Counselling Supervisors Annual to monitor the situation and take an
Workshop extension into account if problems arise.
They will look at numbers of applicants for
The IGC Counselling Supervision DARE & HEAR coming in. They are looking for
Subcommittee have completed their work on trends and will react to trends.
the IGC Ethics Guidelines for supervisors and
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I then suggested that they would consider delivery of guidance counselling and not
simplifying the DARE/HEAR application in the merely to be allocated for guidance. Minister
context that some aspects are more difficult Foley assured me that the intention of
than others in the absence of physical allocating the 120 posts was that they would
contact with students. go to the guidance counsellors.
I invited you to share other ideas on how the Helpline
DARE/HEAR form could be simplified to aid
students completing these at home, I passed In the context of COVID-19, last summer the
on the responses I received. DoE were concerned the IGC would not have
At the request of ISSU, I also asked CAO to the personnel to field all of the calls they
provide shorter videos focussing on one expected, given the confusion around
aspect at a time of CAO/ DARE/HEAR Calculated Grades etc…They invited NPC, ISSU,
applications. Huge credit to CAO who NEPS, NCGE to also work on the Helplines.
produced the videos within the week. Honor McAndrew and I worked steadfastly at
these meetings to communicate to these
Helpline Photoshoot stakeholders that only guidance counsellors
should work on the Helpline and why that was
In August 2020 I attended a scaled back, necessary. This whole process went from early
invitation only, photoshoot for the Helpline June with weekly meetings and daily
that was attended by the Presidents of the communications to me from Honor, DoE,
NPCPP, ISSU, IGC, Minister Foley and a NPCpp staff and officers.
representative from the Irish Independent. At
the photoshoot, I met Minister Foley, I flagged IGC guidance counsellors were disinclined to
to the Minister the need for the 120 posts to work in the Media Centre in Croke Park as
be allocated to guidance counsellors for the they had Health & Safety concerns in the
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context of COVID-19. At this point I suggested Higher Options
we use laptops and do online calls in a
bigger space in Croke Park as the DoE were The Vice President and I had two meetings
keen to have a presence in there. We this summer with the Irish Times. They
reached a compromise when Caroline Duffy decided to proceed with a virtual version of
(Dublin West) sourced the Call Centre the HO for the usual fee. We advised them in
service with the Engineer willing to be on call both meetings, that they are competing with
for the duration of the Helpline. He delivered HEIs who are offering virtual tours for free,
soft phones and laptops to the homes of students cannot be depended on to register
each guidance counsellor in question and themselves and that they need something
conduct a test run with each individual GC more to attract the same numbers as other
prior to the Helpline going live. For these years.
practical reasons we needed guidance
counsellors willing to work on the Helpline NCGE Forum
who live within an hour drive max of the
Engineer which would allow him to travel to NCGE Forums are currently online and
them in real time to remedy any issues with hopefully you are in a position to access
the equipment. them.
NCGE meeting
Guidance counsellors on the
Helpline had over 500 calls on A working group met with NCGE several
times this summer to discuss their proposal
Day 1, twice what they would to work together collaboratively with the IGC.
get on a typical year. Credit to It was recommended that NCGE collaborate
with IGC on CPD options for our members on:
this team who worked
1. Working on line for the duration of the
incredibly hard responding to
COVID-19 pandemic
calls as they come in.
2. Study options overseas in the UK,
The DoE were extremely engaged in this Europe and US.
process all summer and were very
supportive to our members supplying PSI updates: NCGE wish all IGC members to
regular updates of FAQ. I would like to in sign up to the PSI register. We are concerned
particular acknowledge the leadership role that not all of our members work in 2nd level
of Evelyn O’ Connor and Eamonn Moran (CAP schools, our members are under the
DoE) and our own Inspector Esther Doyle jurisdiction of 4 separate and distinct
throughout this long process where they Ministries’, therefore it is not appropriate for
worked evenings and weekends to furnish the IGC to issue a directive to our members
me with necessary updates in real time. to sign up to PSI exclusively. Furthermore
some of our members working in 2nd level
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are already signed up to BPS; lastly the SEN highest numbers registered for Conference
space has changed dramatically since 2014 or in recent years after DCU 2018 and UL 2016.
2016 so the previous agreement signed by IGC We had 202 delegates registered for Friday’s
may no longer be tenable for our members. event second highest ever at a Friday night
We propose to survey the membership to seek event, surpassed only by UL in 2016. The
your views on this matter. conference took place in the very early days
of the COVID-19 pandemic and there were a
DSGC & NCGE number of cancellations (14) and no-shows
(48). NUIG were very positive and described
NCGE hosted a meeting with one the conference in terms of having a “positive
representative each from AGA, AHECS, NCGE, vibe and lovely energy”. We have uploaded
DCU, UL, MU and IGC as we requested. This all workshop presentations received to the
first meeting was an introduction. At this new IGC website.
meeting an agreement was made to work
collaboratively to secure more work AGM
experience / relationship building between
students on training courses and practicing Once again this year, we had a very positive
guidance counsellors. This group will meet and productive AGM. Many thanks to all
again this May and then we will have agreed involved in the planning of this event. Thanks
2 meetings annually going forward. in particular to the members of the Standing
Orders Committee and Ronny Swain who
chaired the motions section of the AGM.
EVENTS AND OTHER DEVELOPMENTS Thanks also to Vice President Justin McGree
for organising the logistics of the AGM. We
Conference 2020 are working to addressing your motions. We
look forward to welcoming you all to our first
We were extremely fortunate to be given online AGM in May.
authorisation to proceed from the HSE and
the Minister for Education’s advisor with what Conference Launch
was an outstandingly successful conference
in NUIG last March. Our feedback from The theme, for Conference 2021 is Fostering
delegates, sponsors, workshop presenters Meaningful Connections & Community in
and keynote speakers is that the 2020 IGC Challenging Times. With a pandemic still
Conference was a resounding success. A raging across the globe for a full calendar
sincere thank you to the Galway/Mayo year now, never was a conference theme
branch Conference Organising Committee more apt or more needed.
for their attention to detail and super
teamwork in rolling out this highly attended The Vice President has put a huge amount of
Conference. work into negotiating with TU and liaising with
our Conference Organiser to work on options
432 delegates had booked to attend the for what type of conference we can have this
conference on Saturday which was the third year. The Official Conference Launch was
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made available on the IGC website in early development and the use of ICT in guidance.
January. Dr. Spencer Niles serves as professor of
counsellor education for William & Mary
Conference 2021 College. In addition, Dr Niles is Current
president of the National Career
We would like to express our thanks to all of Development Association. Both of our
our sponsors who helped make the 2021 IGC speakers serve on the International Centre
conference a reality: in particular TU Dublin, for Career Development and Public Policy
our conference host and main sponsor, Executive Board and we are very excited to
supporting sponsor IT Sligo and minor welcome them to our 2021 first ever Online
sponsors Careers Portal, LYIT and Maynooth Conference.
University.
The Conference Working group met several
times to progress work on our:
• Workshops for Conference
• Keynote speakers
We sourced 16 workshops and 2 keynote
speakers. March Guideline included an easy
to use infographic to show how to access the
conference on the day, this is reproduced
here in the conference brochure.
I invited Minister Foley and Harris to address
our delegates at conference. Conference
planning with the Vice President, Conference Strategic Planning for the Institute
Organiser and Head Office staff is absorbing
a considerable amount of time and energy Restricted access to Head Office has
for us all. A virtual conference is a huge necessitated we be realistic about what we
learning curve with lots of extra tasks, can achieve with no physical meetings
challenges and hidden costs. possible and having to run Head Office
remotely as per NPHET recommendations. On
Keynote speakers for IGC conference a positive note, Covid-19 has been an
equaliser as regular on-line National Executive
I have met with both of our international meetings have removed geographical
keynote speakers Dr. Raimo Vuorinen and Dr obstacles to all branches participating and
Spencer Niles to plan their speech content. being represented on the NE.
Dr. Raimo Vuorinen works as Project
manager at the Finnish Institute for In October 2019, I engaged the services of
Educational Research. His research interest is Governance Ireland to demystify the work on
on evidence based lifelong guidance policy how to meet the requirements of Company
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Law Charities Regulation and Governance our branch treasurers and officers for
Code (2019). In addition to this they meeting the deadline for branch returns on
facilitated a process where the National CPD spending. Thanks also to the IGC
Executive collectively worked on our vision, Bookkeeper, Financial Administrator, and our
mission, and values, then prioritised our Auditor for their attendance at meetings and
strategic goals for the year ahead. With the careful work on our accounts. We would like
pandemic we have had to re-evaluate those to take this opportunity to express our
goals. High quality CPD provision and a first appreciation to the TES for their continued
class conference are essential for the welfare support of our CPD through this annual
of our members during this pandemic and in funding and also for their support of our
its wake. Another priority this year will be counselling supervision.
working to secure legal recognition for the
title guidance counsellor.
Governance Ireland re-engaged with the NE
last term to work on good governance as a
board and to ratify a Code of Conduct. I
completed draft 1 of our 50 page
Governance Code last summer, this first
draft has been ratified by the NE and the
code is now a living document and a work in
progress. Pre-Budget Submission
National Executive engagement with NE By the time you read this report, work will be
agreed Strategic Goals and AGM motions complete researching and prioritising topics
to include in the Pre-Budget submission.
In June, the Vice President and I scheduled Each year, weeks are devoted to intensively
individual online meetings with all members researching and writing the Pre-budget
of the NE to discuss both their individual and Submission on behalf of the IGC and in
branches goals. From this input, we devised consultation with subcommittee Chairs.
a strategy to achieve NE engagement with Hopefully you have all communicated your
our agreed goals and AGM motions by main concerns to your branch
identifying areas to individual members representative. The PBS is a valuable means
where they expressed interest and then of communicating our key issues to
delegating relevant tasks to them with stakeholders and policy makers and to
specified timeframes for completion. We setting our agenda for meetings with them.
plan to make this an annual event.
Strategic CPD update and Organisation’s CPD
CPD funding from DoE / TES Workplan for Academic Year 2020 - 2021
I have completed the Organisational Plan The National Executive and I are encouraging
and application for this funding. Thanks to you all to sign up for one of the Strategic CPD
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