Narrative Guidance as a Tool to Enhance Resilience of Students

Stories are constituent parts of everyday life: we are pushed by thousands of narrative stimuli coming from narrative agencies (television, video-games, news, etc...). When used self-consciously, stories can become extraordinary tools enabling to put in order and to give sense to our experiences, to imagine the future and face choices, to build our own identity and that of the group of which we are part. The narrative guidance is a method for the self-development of people and the development of guidance competencies for communities, using narration and stories. Narrative guidance is part of the orientation training models, i.e. those that aim to develop orientation skills instead of accompanying the moments of choice.