GetSet – be ready to go

Are you looking for new perspectives in your life? Perhaps you need support for to find a new job or to upgrade your living space.

Getset is a learning material and a workbook for you, adult learner to:

  • explore your opportunities in adult education and in the labour market.
  • develop your skills and plan your individual pathway in working life.
  • increase your quality of life and explore how to combine requirements of education, work and family.
  • to be more actively involved in your local community or in society.
  • develop yourself in general.
  • to find information about adequate support and services in your life situation.

Getset concentrates on your experiences

Getset concentrates on your experiences, skills and strengths and your life situation as a whole

  • to explore the things that you can
  • to explore the things that you know and can but you are afraid to express this or show it to other people
  • to find out solutions to the things that you can’t at the moment but you want to try or to do in the future

You can use Getset workbook in different ways

  • in individual work when you plan your life and career on your own or together with your mentor / tutor / career adviser
  • or in a group work when you work want to share experiences and ideas with other people
  • or when you are working both on your own and with a group

Getset workbook is also a work tool for tutoring and guidance of adult learners, for study guidance, career advising and social counseling.

Getset basis on three principles

  • motivation and responsibility: the adult learner is key person of getset: she or he chooses areas to be covered, the subjects and what kind of excercises will be done. she or he sets the goals for the work
  • dialogue and support: the role of the mentor is to facilitate the work and to make “good questions” for the adult learner; not to tell what to do or why.
  • process orientation: it may be ideal to make a preliminary plan concerning the themes and issues in advance. the plan may be changed if needed.

Getset works also in groups

  • common rules are important if the work is done and the themes are discussed in a group: commitment, equality, confidentiality and respect are important. the rules are for all group members; for the adult learners as well as for the tutors.
  • warm up exercises may be a good idea before the group sessions. you can find some examples of them in this material. however, make sure that everybody feels comfortable with this.
  • it is important to summarize the work and experiences at the end.
  • find common getset spirit! and remember that it is not forbidden to have fun together

Some considerations about guidance counselling

In guidance counselling an individual’s own actions and support for them are vital. The guidance counsellor plays an important role in, for example, motivating an individual in their work. A volunteer or professional staff member can serve as a guidance counsellor.

People plan their lives by considering what they should do and how they should do it. Guidance counselling examines and looks for various ways of doing things in order to achieve the above-mentioned goal. It is important to inform the individual about what actions will or might affect the existing problem or a plan being made. Guidance counselling looks for and considers various alternatives that the person being counselled could and would be realistically willing to try in order to solve his or her problem or make progress with their plan. READ MORE

 

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