New perspectives for life-design interventions in the anthropocene context
Since 2013, the UNESCO Chair of Lifelong Guidance and Counseling, together with its UNITWIN Network created in 2017, have been driving research, training, and interventions from a Life Design perspective to help people to navigate this uncertain world. This article is a UNESCO Chair position paper which aims to propose a new vision for career counseling in the current context of the Anthropo-Capitalocene. This vision is based on forms of active life, a concept developed in the career guidance literature by Eduard Spranger. This paper identifies new counseling interventions involving a range of activities that make every individual's daily life a certain form of life. The discussion considers avenues for helping individuals to engage in sustainable forms of active life. The conclusion discusses the need to break away from siloed approaches to career counseling and to develop a conception of the individual in connection with the Earth system.
Authors
- Jacques Pouyaud (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3547-5044)
- Maria Eduarda Duarte (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7562-4780)
- Violetta Drabik-Podgórna (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6251-2085)
- Marcelo Afonso Ribeiro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0396-7693)
- Marek Podgórny (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5307-1350)
- Jean Guichard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3959-1149)
- Donna M. San Antonio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0700-3138)
- Laura Nota (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9820-2281)
- Jacobus G. Maree (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9492-8445)
- Valérie Cohen‐Scali (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9699-3841)
- Jonas Masdonati (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1897-1425)
- Gabriela Aisenson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1486-6588)
- Annamaria Di Fabio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5150-1273)
Institutions
- Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (FR)
- University of Padua (IT)
- Université de Bordeaux (FR)
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- University of Wrocław (PL)
- Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR)
- University of Florence (IT)
- Lesley University (US)
- University of Pretoria (ZA)
- University of Lausanne (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Australian Journal of Career Development
- Published
- 2025-03-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/10384162241307964
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 18.01