The Guidance Room - The Adult Edition

What the Adult Edition Offers

This resource is designed to support reflection and discussion based on the adult cases in The Guidance Room. The films offer insight into different guidance situations and are intended to be used as a starting point for professional dialogue and learning. The cases demonstrate how practitioners apply professional judgement, facilitate career learning, and adapt guidance to individual needs, contexts, and levels of readiness.

The cases provide a shared foundation for reflection and discussion for practitioners working in career centres, labour market services, adult education, integration services, higher education, and other contexts. The Adult Edition includes cases featuring adults with different backgrounds, motivations, and challenges. The film excerpts highlight:

• guidance processes and relational work
• ethical considerations
• use of career-related theories and methods in complex situations
• career learning for adults in transition
• navigating system-level structures such as social services, labour market measures, and education pathways
• the practitioner’s role and professional judgement

Each case includes two sets of questions:

• Initial thematic reflection questions, which focus on first impressions and key elements in the guidance process
• Thematic reflection questions, which invite deeper exploration of specific themes, competences and dilemmas

You may use the resource in different ways, depending on your context:

• Watch the film in full and reflect individually or together with colleagues
• Use the initial questions to guide a first discussion after viewing
• Revisit selected parts of the film to explore specific situations in more detail
• Use the thematic questions to support deeper analysis and connect practice to theory and competence areas

The films show selected moments from guidance processes and do not represent complete sessions. This opens up space for interpretation, critical reflection and discussion of alternative approaches.

You may also connect your reflections to the self-assessment tool My competence, using the questions as a starting point for identifying and developing your own professional competences.

The questions are not intended to provide correct answers, but to support exploration of different perspectives, professional judgement and awareness of one’s own practice.