Future Coaching Guide
Rantaniva, Antti; Eerikäinen, Ville (2025)
Kaakkois-Suomen ammattikorkeakoulu
2025
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https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:oerfi-202509000000780_2
https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:oerfi-202509000000780_2
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How should guidance professionals discuss the future with young people?
What should they take into account? What methods could be used to
strengthen young people’s future-oriented thinking and faith in the future?
The Future Coach’s Guide provides answers to these questions and
enables those working with young people to update their competence.
Future coaching has been tested and developed in the Guidance Center
“Olkkari” 2.0 project in South Savo, funded by the European Social Fund
in 2021–2023. The aim was to develop practical guidance methods that
could be used to support young people in mapping out their preferred
and meaningful lives and in finding their own path in a world full of
threats and uncertainty.
This guide contains a series of example exercises and practical tips for
discussing the future with young people which were drafted as a result
of project development work and coaching. These are excellent tools for
the use of guidance centres, youth workshops, outreach youth work, and
other guidance services targeted at young people. The guide is equally
suitable as learning material for students in the field.
The Future Coaching programme presented in the guide is a guidance
package consisting of group and individual coaching, the topics of
which are the future and its examination from both general and personal
perspectives. The purpose of the exercises included in the guide is
to strengthen young people’s future skills, future-oriented thinking, and
resilience. Future coaching aims to raise optimism and hopefulness and
evoke the idea that, despite many threat scenarios and possible weak
outlooks, it is possible to influence future developments and that they
can also offer various interesting opportunities.
In the development of future coaching, particular emphasis has been
placed on the perspective of youth employment, which focuses on the
utilisation of functional, gamified, and creative methods, youth-centred
methods, and genuine encounters with young people. The training has
been based on research and development carried out previously in Finland,
such as the futures guidance model launched by the University of
Turku’s Finland Futures Research Centre.
What should they take into account? What methods could be used to
strengthen young people’s future-oriented thinking and faith in the future?
The Future Coach’s Guide provides answers to these questions and
enables those working with young people to update their competence.
Future coaching has been tested and developed in the Guidance Center
“Olkkari” 2.0 project in South Savo, funded by the European Social Fund
in 2021–2023. The aim was to develop practical guidance methods that
could be used to support young people in mapping out their preferred
and meaningful lives and in finding their own path in a world full of
threats and uncertainty.
This guide contains a series of example exercises and practical tips for
discussing the future with young people which were drafted as a result
of project development work and coaching. These are excellent tools for
the use of guidance centres, youth workshops, outreach youth work, and
other guidance services targeted at young people. The guide is equally
suitable as learning material for students in the field.
The Future Coaching programme presented in the guide is a guidance
package consisting of group and individual coaching, the topics of
which are the future and its examination from both general and personal
perspectives. The purpose of the exercises included in the guide is
to strengthen young people’s future skills, future-oriented thinking, and
resilience. Future coaching aims to raise optimism and hopefulness and
evoke the idea that, despite many threat scenarios and possible weak
outlooks, it is possible to influence future developments and that they
can also offer various interesting opportunities.
In the development of future coaching, particular emphasis has been
placed on the perspective of youth employment, which focuses on the
utilisation of functional, gamified, and creative methods, youth-centred
methods, and genuine encounters with young people. The training has
been based on research and development carried out previously in Finland,
such as the futures guidance model launched by the University of
Turku’s Finland Futures Research Centre.