The seminar is designed to assist young adults to better understand and to achieve more self-direction of their own occupational development processes. Designed as a psychological education approach in which classes are a mixture of experiential and pragmatic activities, the seminar is divided into fourteen three-hour sessions. Class activities, highly structured and itemized in the manual, focus on community building, formation of psychological contracts, value clarification, meaning of work, instruction in occupational information, decision making, explorations, and future planning and evaluation. The siminar design assumes there is insufficient emphasis on understanding the world of work and one's relationship to it and that traditional approaches to occupational counseling are less than effective. It further assumes that self-understanding is a legitimate realm of knowledge which should be included in the curriculum. The course has as its objectives: develop a minimum level of self-esteem and a positive attitude toward occupational development as a life process, learn how to explicate the personal meaning of different work activities, learn how to relate personal variables and reality variables to make effective decisions, and learn how to test decisions through tentative commitment. (AG)