A definition of “life scenario” would be: “an unconscious life plan, emerging in
childhood, strengthened by parents, justified by subsequent events and culminating with a
destructive pattern in the rest of the adult life” (Nuţă, 2000).
There are cases when clients (especially pupils) experience conflicts peculiar to their age,
with great emotional impact and negative consequences on school results. At school when
there is available a team of specialists (doctors, psychologists and/or psychotherapists)
what is usually chosen is psychodrama / sociodrama, for therapeutic purposes, playing on
catharsis. Directly related to psychological counselling at this age it is worth considering
“demolishing the life scenario by an antidote” (idem), with psycho-therapeutical
assistance or intervention.
This aspect of “life scenario” must be “annihilated, demolished” by psychotherapists in
awareness and replaced with a something beneficial for subsequent actions of the client,
who will adopt a different life scenario, hopefully more constructive.
Strategic scenarios seek to eliminate randomness, and are based on:
- previous experience in leadership, built on “the lessons learned” in the past
and a long managerial practice; - determining factors that have remarkable influence over the future actions;
- objective laws, principles, rules, methods and procedures, normative systems
based on which future actions can unfold in various ways; - scientific methods to ground and verify hypotheses and alternatives
throughout their preparation and elaboration.
Adolescents and young people often face difficulties in decision-making at the crossroads
of their careers (at the end of a learning cycle or when finding employment). In such
situations it is necessary to analyse premises (SWOT) and elaborate strategic or
anticipatory scenarios of the type: SO, WO, ST, WT (see the article: SWOT Analysis).
These kind of scenarios are inspired by the military, and are considered qualitative
methods used “for prognoses in the following situations:
- lack of statistical data on the evolution of certain phenomena or processes;
- insufficient security regarding the validity of past data, when available;
- uncertainty regarding the transposition into the future of the tendency
resulting from past statistical data” (Joiţa, 2000).
Forecast, as a way of shaping the future, and defined as an instrument of prediction, is by
nature intuitive and heuristic.