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)”
Education, Refocused
Let’s assume that when students say they are in college “to get a job,” they really are answering honestly – and hopefully. But let’s also leave open the possibility that what students are really hoping for is life direction, an opportunity to discover and develop the creative potential they possess and live it out inContinue reading “Education, Refocused”
The Creative Life
In our exploration of creative change, it is tempting to romanticize creativity into a free-ranging, spontaneous, and artistic-expressive activity that defies limitations. There is something to this, of course. The “creative life” does seem to stand at the far end of a continuum from the “secure life” where everything is safe and comfortably tucked in.Continue reading “The Creative Life”
