Helena Košťálová

Position: 
lecturer, methodology specialist and career counsellor
Specialization: 
courses for career counsellors, career coaching
Email: 
helena.kostalova@ekskurzy.cz
Phone:: 
+420 774 454 901
Motto: 

"What we can see depends mainly on what we are looking for."

For more than 20 years, Helena has been dedicated to education, with special regard to career and personal development. Originally, she studied social management and marketing , but she also enjoys taking advantage of her other educational opportunities: a two-year career counseling course at Stockholm University; the Youth, Workforce Development, and Closing the Skills Gap summer school at the University of Montana USA; the ICT counseling course at the University of Jyväskylä; Art Therapy and Artefiletics training; Eco-art therapy training; improvisational studies theater; and training of assessment center assessors as well as her study visits to the UK and Scandinavia. She enjoys working with her clients the most, but also pursues career counselling at the research level as a part of her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague. She holds a 2nd level degree license to teach the Swiss method of mapping competencies CH-Q.

COURSES FOR CAREER COUNSELLORS

Helena follows the news not only in her field, but also in many other fields, and she tries to anticipate the implications for world of work. She promotes modern career counselling, participates in educating of career counsellors and other people working in the education sphere, and she is a member of several expert groups. She participates in methodological support of newly emerging career centers and on the integration of career coaching into school educational plans. She professes creative approach, which she applies in practice not only in her own courses, but also in academic publications and interactive study materials. She received the National Career Counselling Award for individuals in 2013 for her teaching activities in career counselling.

 

CAREER COACHING

Helena’s main interest is the career and personal development of individuals. She looks at this theme holistically and she is always interested in her clients’ informally acquired skills and competences (outside of work and school) and the possibility to transfer them into the professional world. Various clients of all age groups (from 9 to 60+) provide her with rich and diverse life experiences. Helena also provides mapping of the potential for work teams and she concerns herself with the development of pupils and students. Her big inspiration is the narrative approach. Together with her clients she discovers the promise of positive change in their unique storylines.

 

Její kurzy

Art Therapy as a Tool for Career Development and Education

Eco-art therapy in education

Recognition of competences based upon CH-Q method