Helping young people design a future that fits them
INCHARGE FUTURES
Education and career decisions shape a life, but young people are often asked to make them before they fully understand themselves.
Incharge Futures helps teenagers and young adults develop the self-knowledge, curiosity and practical decision-making skills they need to explore what comes next.
SELF-KNOWLEDGE FOR EDUCATION · WORK · LIFE
INCHARGE FUTURES
The question isn’t only “What job should I do?”
Choosing subjects, university courses, apprenticeships or a first career can feel like choosing a whole life.
But a meaningful future rarely begins with a job title.
It begins with understanding: who I am, what matters to me, how I work best, what kind of life I want to build and which possibilities are worth exploring.
“A good future does not have to make sense to everyone else. It has to become possible for the person living it.”
DIFFERENT WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
FOR YOUNG PEOPLEFuture Compass
A focused 90-minute exploration for a young person who needs perspective, direction or a clearer starting point. Includes a personalised written Personal Blueprint.
Future by Design
A deeper three-session pathway moving from self-understanding through possibility, exploration and practical next steps.
FOR SCHOOLS & ORGANISATIONSKnow yourself,
Design your future
An interactive workshop helping young people think beyond job titles and connect self-knowledge with education, work and the life they want to build.
START WITH WHO YOU ARE
From self-understanding to enactable choices.
Rather than starting with a list of careers, we begin with the young person. From there, we explore what fits, what deserves a closer look and what the next practical step might be.
1.UNDERSTAND
Who am I?
What might be possible?
2.EXPAND
What deserves a closer look?
What fits now?
3.EXPLORE
4.DECIDE
5.ACT
What is my next step?
STRENGTHS • INTERESTS • VALUES • POSSIBILITIES • DIRECTION
THE FLAGSHIP PROGRAMME
Future by Design
Different
possibilities.
Different
paths.
Build a life that fits you.
Future by Design is a guided three-session programme for teenagers and young adults beginning to make important decisions about education, work and adult life.
Rather than beginning with occupations, we begin with the young person: how they think, what matters to them, the environments in which they function best, the possibilities that spark genuine curiosity and the practical experiments that can move them forward.
The aim is not to predict one perfect future. It is to help a young person become more capable of designing their own.
A PERSPECTIVE SHAPED ACROSS EDUCATION
My relationship with education spans more than three decades, from tutoring as a teenager to working across nurseries, schools, colleges and universities, supporting apprenticeships, serving as a school governor and raising two daughters through their own educational journeys.
Seeing education from so many different perspectives has shaped the question that now sits at the centre of Incharge Futures:
How do we help young people understand themselves well enough to make choices that genuinely fit?
Young people thrive when they understand themselves, can see a wider range of possibilities and feel able to make choices they can actually inhabit.
This is at the heart of my work today, helping young people move from self-understanding to possibility, from possibility to choice, and from choice to action, so they can begin creating
a life they cannot wait to wake up to.
WHY THIS WORK MATTERS TO ME
I have spent much of my professional life at the meeting point between people, education and possibility.
What interests me most is not simply helping a young person choose the “right” course or career. It is helping them understand themselves well enough to make choices they can inhabit.
My research into authenticity has reinforced something I have seen repeatedly in practice: a choice can look perfectly sensible from the outside and still be difficult to live from the inside.
Future by Design grew from that question:
“How do we help young people build futures that are not only imaginable, but genuinely enactable?”
There is more than one way to build a meaningful life.
Future by Design helps young people discover which possibilities are genuinely theirs and turn them into choices they can begin to act on.