Planning, designing, facilitating, and evaluating are central activities for instructors when conducting exercises.When conducting these activities, instructors usually rely on past experiences since structured educations orguides for instructors do not exist. It is therefore evident that there is a need for such educations or guides.

In this study, the contents of a guide for instructors are proposed. The contents are based on seven semi-structuredinterviews with novel and experienced instructors, where they were asked to map their procedures for conductingexercises through a journey map. The interviews resulted in material which was transcribed and analysed using athematic analysis. The thematic analysis emphasized five themes to consider when acting as an instructor, namelyroles, realism, defining purpose and goals, learning, and planning and acting.

The results from the interviews, combined with past literature, resulted in proposed contents for an instructor’sguide which is currently being developed.