Probing Our Fortune - Carrier Preparedness and Life

Background "Let me go, my dear mother, to probe my fortune" - storytelling and folk/fairy tales had been guiding people's lives for generations in the past. And actually, they have a lot to say about how to start an adult life, how to navigate in-between separation from parents, study and work for young people. Working with folk tales is a good coaching method to work with all the different issues around the life start of young people. Life start is always difficult, but it’s never been as difficult as now, when the future is completely uncertain because of climate change, world migration and economic crises. Sustainability has several meanings, not only ecological, but economic and social issues and goals (SDG-s) also consider part of it, and young adults have to navigate among all those different issues, like between Skylla and Charybdis. That means they have to be prepared for changes, challenges, - which are actually entrepreneurial skills - as well as “traditional” life start skills as carrier choice, separation, setting up an independent life, and setting and sticking to goals. Objectives The main aim of the project is to improve the preparedness of young people for carrier and life choices by developing their self-reflection, their resilience as well as having them actively make decisions and steps forward their future. As additional aims, we would like to increase the acceptance of cultural diversities and also positive attitude towards sustainability. Activities In this project we will use the Folk Tale Work method to develop sets of self-help and coaching / training tools for young people and their helpers, advisers and coaches to think through their choices, their motivation, and design their life steps. Folk stories teach them a lot of things of trial and error, of not giving up even when it's hard, or not that exciting (as the hard bread talks to Jankó in one of the Hungarian tales: because you have to know, it's not luck and fortune, which is waiting for you in life, but hard work, in which you have to be persistent, until your last breath and lost drop of blood ). Folk tales are also a way of narrative therapy. Stories we live by influences the way we live, and the way we thing, as ecolinguist Aaron Stibbe discusses (http://storiesweliveby.org.uk/ ) As in folk tales nature is presented in a revered and active way, as an important support factors, these stories change attitude towards nature, and using folk tales from different backgrounds also provides a good opportunity for increasing cultural awareness. In order to reach our aim, we do the next steps: - to set up a group of developer experts as well as a Youth Board, to engage them throroughly during transnational live and virtual meetings, - to develop the three project results discussed - to run training events for young people (C1) and youth workers' trainers (C2) as piloting and also engagement and training occasion - to run a set of multipliers to engage the larger stakeholder community as well as workshops on our results for young people and youth workers. Impact We are going to develop three main results: The content of this page is published for information purposes only. The project was funded by the European Union. However, the communication about the project that is published through this page expresses the views of the project beneficiaries only and it does not represent the views of the European Union or the European Commission. It shall not be deemed to constitute legal or official notice on behalf of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for this content nor the use thereof made by any third parties. Page 2 of 3 2021-2-HU01-KA220-YOU-000048770 Generated on: Jan 9, 2026 1. a Framework and Screening Tool on Carrier Preparedness for councellors 2. six (6) Folk Tale Boxes, containing tools for self-help and councellor work, such as the analysis of the tale, cards on the scenes of the tales and assessment questions for self-help and coaching, instructions for coaching on the specific tales, and also group work schedule and tools to work with the tale in youth groups. The six tales used will come from the 4