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”
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”
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”
Working on Ourselves
When it comes to understanding ourselves, humans tend to be a fairly confused species. This is not to say that other species really understand themselves, either. It’s likely our evolved talent for self-conscious reflection and contemplation that makes understanding ourselves even possible, as well as what’s behind our confusion – and a lot of ourContinue reading “Working on Ourselves”
5 Floors
Ego is just your “I,” the center of self-conscious experience that locates and manages a personal identity in the middle of everything. It’s not what is wrong with you, or the “obstacle” on your path to liberation, enlightenment, and wellbeing. In fact, none of those long-sought goals of salvation would be possible without your ego.Continue reading “5 Floors”
Crossroads
Part of me really wants to believe that human destiny holds something more in store for us than just more of the same. I mean, more than just strapping ourselves inside spaceships and taking our problems somewhere else. Human destiny will entail going beyond ourselves somehow, but populating some distant planet isn’t likely to bringContinue reading “Crossroads”
Jesus and “Don Colossus”
The invitation had called it The Patriotic Dedication Ceremony for the Golden Age of America. The banners called it A Historic Tribute. The souvenir hats called it TRUMP THE GREAT. But as Jesus stood at the edge of the enormous marble plaza, listening to the brass band blare a triumphant rendition of “God Bless theContinue reading “Jesus and “Don Colossus””
