Orientation and the search for meaning: a challenge for life.

Abstract

In the current age of uncertainty, the question of orientation arises in an emerging and highly priority way. Not only as a practice aimed at supporting specific educational and professional choices, but also as an educational focus that, more widely, pays attention to the way of being in the present and of facing the numerous turning points - only apparently irrelevant - that challenge us in the daily life of existence. In this perspective, orientation takes the form of a "refinement of conscience": as an accompaniment intended to cultivate, from childhood, self-awareness with regard to the values and meanings that underly the choices of the ordinary, thus averting the experience of insignificance of those who confusingly cross the many turning points of their lives. This awareness is necessary to promote the process of the search for meaning: the desire to see, in the folds of everyday life, new possibilities of meaning.