Table 7.1.

The life design intervention plan

Steps	Intervention objective (Savickas et al., 2009)	Activities and techniques to achieve intervention outcomes
General	Help participants grow psychologically and promote their wellbeing	Uncover themes and patterns in participants’ observations, life stories, and beliefs
Step 1	Establish a satisfactory working relationship	Conduct group discussions to help participants get to know each other better. Complete Part 1 (biographical details) of the CIP and the MCM
Step 2	Examine participants’ (subjective) sense of self and encourage self-reflection and reflexivity	Complete Parts 2 and 3 of the CIP. Participants reflect on their answers
Step 3	Objectify participants’ stories and open up new perspectives on these stories	Participants craft their power, value, or identity statements and life story titles and headings. Life stories are (re)constructed in terms of past and present chapters
Step 4	Contextualize challenges or challenging areas in new stories Reconfirm participants’ capacity to construct their career identities	Review challenges (“problems”) and consider them as opportunities for growth Identify and confirm strengths and problem-solving capacities
Step 5	Construct participants’ identities Jointly design plans to help participants overcome barriers Share “new” stories with a compassionate audience	Revisit power, value, or identity statements. Juxtapose painful or hurtful (past) and hope-filled (future) stories and “faulty” beliefs and inspiring decisions. Complete mission and vision statements. Participants elicit advice from within themselves by revisiting their favorite quotations
Step 6	Conduct regular follow-ups	Counselor conducts regular follow-ups and decides on possible further intervention