Fostering Healthy Organisations: From Life Designing to Life Meaning as primary prevention for well-being construction. Theoretical innovation and empirical evidence

After delineating the theoretical framework of healthy organizations, the present contribution traces the development of career counseling and its historical evolution and focusing in particular on the transition from Life Designing to Life Meaning as the theoretical framework in a primary prevention perspective for well-being construction in answering to the challenges of the 21st century. Empirical research on Life Meaning and new constructs in the healthy organizations framework are presented. Furthermore, future perspectives are offered for career counseling interventions in relation to Life Meaning for healthy organizations and well-being construction, including attention to decent work and the new research area of Psychology of sustainability and sustainable development.