Guidance beyond work: accepting retirement as a new phase of life

the contribution aims to present the first results of an exploratory research carried out in the Italian context and subsequent developments. The question that drove the exploration was to understand whether the guidance to beyond work can be useful to facilitate the acceptance of the retirement period by future pensioners. Thus, the aim was to investigate whether it might be appropriate to discuss beyond-work guidance and to understand how accompaniment along this path, combined with gradual forms of exit from work, might help future pensioners to achieve personal and social well-being, resulting in the acceptance of the retirement period and a successful transition