A Career Counselling Symposium

First Edition: ETONSA (Orange Grove, South Africa), 2002. Second Edition: BCTF Lesson Aids (Vancouver, BC), 2002. Third Edition: LukivPress Online (Quesnel, BC), 2007. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Sardis, BC), 2022. Introduction Often students approach teachers, not career counsellors, about career-related concerns. "What is it like to be an English teacher?" "Where did you go to school for training?" "I've been thinking about a career in engineering. Do you know anything about that?" "I'm not really sure what I want to do when I finish school. What do you know about journalism?" Whether you're an English teacher, an other-subject teacher, a principal, or even a career counsellor, or whether you're a teacher thinking about retirement, this symposium, of five chapters, should provide practical direction about counselling students, other clients, or even yourself. The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).