Familiar with Corsava?

If you know Corsava, some of the underlying philosophy will feel familiar. Students sort according to their own priorities, there are no right answers, and the experience is meant to be engaging, positive, and full of surprises. It can be used one-on-one, with families, in groups, or as part of a counseling conversation, and it is designed to get people talking.

Guidava is launching first as a physical, hands-on card sort built around a simple idea: help students understand what matters to them before they start making decisions. At a time when students spend so much of their lives on screens and are looking for more personal connection, the physical experience gives them a chance to slow down, move ideas around, reconsider their choices, and discover patterns in a more tactile, social, and conversational way.

Sort It Out by Guidava builds on that experience for the world students and families are navigating today. Each card includes examples and explanations that help students understand the idea they are considering, why it might matter, what it could look like in practice, and whether it feels important to them.

The deck has been updated throughout to reflect a landscape being reshaped by AI, changing careers, rising costs, new educational options, and growing questions about value, support, belonging, and what comes next. For many families, the current landscape can feel more daunting. Guidava brings the focus back to the individual student, helping families and counselors move forward with meaningful insight into that student’s motivations, priorities, and possible paths.

Some of the newer and updated ideas reflect questions students and families are facing now, including AI Across Disciplines, Career-Minded Campus, Cost of Attendance, Job Placement & Career Outcomes, Return on Investment, and Student Wellness & Counseling Support. And many Corsava favorites are still there, from Hands-On Learning to Collaborative and Competitive academic environments, now alongside a wider range of ideas and choices.

Pathways is a new category. It gives students room to think about how they may want to move forward, including a direct four-year college, community college, apprenticeships and earn-and-learn opportunities, certificates and technical programs, international universities, gap years, work-first options, and simply not being sure yet. The point is not to steer students toward or away from any one option, but to help them recognize that there are many legitimate ways to begin, and that different paths may fit different students.

Majors / Academics has also been rethought. Rather than relying on a long list of narrow or highly specific majors, the cards focus on broader areas of study and intellectual interest, such as Technology, Computing & Data; People, Behavior & Society; Science, Health & Living Systems; Business, Entrepreneurship & Leadership; and Ideas, Culture & the Human Story. That reflects the reality that many students change majors and that fields increasingly overlap, evolve, and lead into one another. The aim is to open up possibilities and connections rather than ask students to make premature yes-or-no judgments about majors they may barely know.

Guidava is also being designed to help students use what they discover after the sort. A What’s Next experience will help students use their priorities to develop better follow-up questions and prompts for the research and conversations that follow, including conversations with counselors and college representatives, campus visits, program research, and AI tools.

Guidava is being designed to work well remotely too. Decks can be shipped directly to students or families so the sort can happen before or during a remote meeting, and Sort It Out is being designed to include a simple way to capture the completed sort and create a report that can be shared, printed, or saved.

Throughout Guidava, the student remains at the center: discovering what matters, encountering ideas they may not have considered, and developing better questions for whatever comes next.