Good practices

A self-observation tool mapping daily activities across well-being dimensions, helping clients and counsellors reflect on routines, energy sources, and what feels meaningful.

A set of questions that can be used in the contracting phase of the guidance process to start a conversation around the issue of sustainability and to connect this issue with clients’ situation.

A reflective tool helping counsellors and clients identify work-related stress triggers across personal, relational, and systemic levels, building emotional awareness and strategies to maintain balance.

A guided reflective exercise contrasting how participants speak to friends versus themselves, building self-kindness awareness rooted in Kristin Neff’s self-compassion framework for counsellors and clients.

Overview of the career education and guidance in initial higher education in Czechia, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. Webinar from 28/11/2025.

This decision-making table expands traditional cost-benefit analysis to include short and long-term impacts on self, others, and the planet, embedding sustainability into individual career choices.

Overview of the different approaches to career education in school curricula across Central and South-Eastern Europe. Webinar from 27/05/2026.

A participatory multi-year framework developed by Slovakia’s career guidance association, offering cross-sectoral quality criteria, self-evaluation tools, and competency descriptors to professionalise and improve guidance services.

A consolidating action-planning worksheet where counsellors or clients identify well-being focus areas, draw on past strengths, and define three concrete steps toward sustainable personal or career well-being.

Romania’s annual 2–3 day national conference uniting career counsellors, universities, employers and policymakers to share practices, strengthen standards, and produce recommendations for education and labour policy.