Green guidance supports people to make their education, training and employment choices with an awareness of the climate crisis. Green guidance helps people understand the environmental impacts of their working lives and develop more positive and sustainable ways forward.
Climate change is already shaping careers, and will even more in the coming years. Green jobs, green education and green skills are turning up in job ads, training programmes and policy papers. For those of us who work in guidance, it raises a question: what does all this mean for what we do on a Monday morning with our clients…
After several months of work, we are happy to announce that the Exploring Green Guidance handbook and toolbox are now available in Greek. The handbook as a starting point for integrating sustainability into career guidance Exploring Green Guidance: A handbook for practitioners is the central output of the Exploring Green Guidance project. It makes a case for why career guidance…
On 29 September 2026 we organized the launch of the open letter “For career practices that integrate sustainability“. The letter was initiated by the Lab Green Guidance and the community around Exploring Green Guidance, and it has since been signed by researchers internationally. The session moderated by Eva Kavková, opened with Peter Plant, who introduced the idea of green guidance,…
Pronounced by André Chauvet at the launch event of the Open letter : For career practices that integrate sustainability. On behalf of the Green Guidance Lab , I am both delighted and grateful to everyone, and also a little “proud” to open this webinar. This moment is not only an opportunity for us to express our observations, concerns, and proposals….
Are you a career professional interested in the idea of weaving sustainability into your work with clients? We host quarterly intervision (or peer supervision) sessions for practitioners who want to test, refine, and share their approaches for supporting more sustainable career paths. Whether you already integrate sustainability naturally to your sessions, you’ve tried a few times more or less successfully…
Today’s ecological challenges and the many risks we face weigh more heavily than ever on the world’s habitability, and they are profoundly and lastingly transforming careers. The concept of green guidance, first introduced by Peter Plant, is more relevant than ever. It emerges at the intersection of several developments: the ecological emergency, the transformation of jobs, and a growing awareness…
Routledge has published An Organisational Guide to Skills for Green Workforce Transformation, a new collection that argues the green transition is, at its core, a skills problem – and one current strategies are not solving fast enough. Edited by Dr Karen Cripps (Oxford Brookes University Business School, UK) and Candy Ho (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada), the 22-chapter, 366-page book argues…
Chris Targett I have recently been reflecting on “Green Guidance” and the publication of the Green Guidance Handbooki. This has led me to two main thoughts, regards “Green Guidance”; to consider what it may mean for those of us, whose lives lead us to the daily practice of Personal Careers Guidance. “Green Guidance” is an opportunity for our times and…
Based on implementation by Sofia Dias, School Psychologist, Vila Nova de Gaia Introduction Young people increasingly express concern about climate change, social justice, and sustainability, but these values often remain disconnected from their educational and career planning. This case study explores how Green Guidance principles were integrated into standard vocational orientation activities with 9th-grade students in Portugal. The fundamental question…
When the green guidance toolbox was being developed, we did not have a particular kind of practitioner in mind: we were thinking of someone working with different clients choosing their vocation or navigating career transitions in a labour market that is slowly, insufficiently and unevenly greening. What happens when you take those tools and work with ten adults who have…