Part 3: From Assessment to Discovery – A New Approach to Career Guidance What if the most valuable outcome of career counseling is not simply choosing an occupation, but developing a clearer understanding of how we engage with the world – and what we might become? The Student Who Doesn’t Know What to Major InContinue reading “From Career Interests to Vocational Intelligence (3)”
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From Career Interests to Vocational Intelligence (2)
Part 2: From Talent to Skill – How Intelligence Finds Expression What if intelligence is not simply something we possess, but something we express through the ways we engage with the world? Looking Beneath Our Interests In the first article of this series, Beyond Matching: Rethinking Career Interest, we considered a question that seldom receivesContinue reading “From Career Interests to Vocational Intelligence (2)”
From Career Interests to Vocational Intelligence
Part 1: Beyond Matching — Rethinking Career Interest What if discovering a satisfying career begins not with asking what interests us, but with understanding what makes something interesting in the first place? The Familiar Question: What Do You Want to Do? For many students, choosing a college major or career direction begins with a deceptivelyContinue reading “From Career Interests to Vocational Intelligence”
One Way or Another
Let’s try this again. You are a wave on the ocean of Being. Its essential mystery is rising into manifestation as you in this very moment. As it rises and becomes conscious in you, what you see looking around is a vast web of participation among countless other waves. By the principle of manifestation, theContinue reading “One Way or Another”
Human Natures
In the illustration on the right, three squares are labeled Body, Soul, and Spirit. Together and holistically these three elements constitute a human being’s essential nature: An animal biology (Body), an inner presence (Soul), and an impetus toward transcendence and self-actualization (Spirit). Body and Soul are united in the taijitu symbol of Taoism, representing theirContinue reading “Human Natures”
A Post-Theistic Theology
Behind the multiplicity of personality profiles that make up the expansive catalog of gods across the traditions of theism, we find four – more than mere attributes, so let’s name them principles, that serve as its architectural framework. These four principles are not always apparent in every deity, particularly in those that function more asContinue reading “A Post-Theistic Theology”
The Two Centers
Individuals of the age 17-24 are at a time in their development when the general task of their Hero’s Journey turns on the challenge of charting a path into a future of freedom, purpose, and meaning. Through childhood they had lived under a regime of taller powers (parents, teachers, coaches) who guided their steps andContinue reading “The Two Centers”
Words and Reality
Along the winding road of my career – first as a pastoral counselor, then as a community counselor, and now as a career counselor working with college students – I have developed a particular skill of deep listening that I call “listening in.” Of course, counselors of all types need to listen to their clients,Continue reading “Words and Reality”
A Storyline of Faith
It’s always presumptuous and frequently dangerous to assume that your experience, perspective, and path in life constitute a norm against which that of others might be meaningfully compared. Not long ago, thinking in terms of types and standards of normalcy was widely used as a method for understanding ourselves and each other. Nowadays, however, theContinue reading “A Storyline of Faith”
Under the Hat
According to the worldwide spiritual wisdom tradition known as the Perennial Philosophy or Sophia Perennis, the one thing each of us must realize is that we are not who we think we are. Who is a term attaching to a personal identity, which is all about playing a role on the social performance stage. TheContinue reading “Under the Hat”
