Znaczenie osobistych protohistorii w konstruowaniu projektów przyszłego życia
The importance of personal proto-histories in constructing projects for future life

Summary/Abstract: Aim. This paper aims to capture the relevance of personal proto-histories to the design of future personal and working life. Materials and methods. Methodologically, the study chiefly relies on a subject literature analysis and the examination of selected passages from the narratives of students who attended biographical workshops as part of coursework on narrative methods in career counselling. Results. The study presents a selection of illustrative examples of personal proto-histories/proto-stories that emerged in biographical workshops held as part of coursework in two MA programmes: one in Career Counselling and Career Coaching and the other in Counselling and Psychoeducational Assistance. Students’ narratives illuminate the relevance of personal and family narratives to their future life designs. Conclusion. Designing one’s future life is part of a larger process of individual identity formation. Identity results from mediations between individuals’ past, present and anticipated future. Because human life is a story/narrative, it contains references to these three temporal perspectives. Notably, individual stories also have their proto-stories/proto-histories which are developed in parental visions and plans from before the children’s birth and in the expectations that parents develop for and of their children. Such proto-stories contribute to the family narrative/story and may thus affect future designs.

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