This event, facilitated by the Centre for Guidance Studies (CeGS) at the University of Derby, brought together a range of practitioners, managers and trainers within the UK to discuss presenting issues in multicultural guidance and counselling. The seminar was held on the 24th of May 2005 and the main facilitators were Dr Sauli Puukari, University of Jyvaskyla; Gary O'Donnell, TUC Learner Services; and Siobhan Neary-Booth, University of Derby.

Key themes of the seminar were the recognition of the need to provide guidance and counselling services to ethnic minority groups in culturally diverse European societies, and the recognition that special multicultural guidance and counselling skills are required for this provision.

A range of multicultural guidance and counselling resources were examined during the seminar and a number of these can be accessed via the links below. CeGS is particularly indebted to Dr Puukari for making these resources available.

Multicultural counselling workshop themes

Multicultural counselling workshop themes as outlined by Sauli Puukari are outlined here, together with an examination of the starting points for multicultural counselling workshop themes and a framework for multicultural counselling competences.

MULTICULTURAL COUNSELLING SKILLS: other resources

The first two papers (by Mika Launikari and Sauli Puukari, and Sauli Puukari) are kept on this site, while all the rest point to materials also available elsewhere on the Web.