Future Intention- A New Group Guidance Procedure for Developing Goals for the Future
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Future IntentionAbstract
In an effort to plan better for the years ahead, future processes have been implemented by various civic and educational groups across the nation. This article presents a similar structure and dynamics as applied to group guidance and counseling. A significant shift in emphasis is made from merely planning for one's future to imaginatively experiencing the future as that which is happening in the present. The rationale and concrete outline for this futures invention process reflect how individuals can break through the respective impasses in their personal lives to higher levels of emotional growth.
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