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The Work Values page has been upgraded to represent two levels of values: the original personal values survey as well as an organizational values inventory. How does your workplace fare? May these tools inspire and support your intention to Create the Work and Workplace You Love!
Dear friends ~ particularly the ‘anticareerists’ or career transitioning among the community:
We’ve posted a self-inquiry exercise designed to serve you in your efforts to determine what type of livelihood might best resonate with your soul and personality. The exercise is simply a list of values for you to consider and prioritize. If we had a sophisticated setup here, you’d be able to input your responses online, but as it is, your best bet would probably be to copy the survey and either print it out or save it in your own text file to work with. This is a purely personal and private process, though any feedback re: your experience is welcome! You’ll find the survey here.
May it serve you well in your quest for authentic and luminous livelihood.
Joyous journeys,
Whitehawk
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
This Spring’s “Create the Work You Love” workshop at the Rowe Conference Center in Rowe, Massachusetts (www.RoweCenter.org) will by my last residential workshop for the next six months. I am taking a much needed sabbatical and plan to stay home, stay quiet, and stay within. I thank you from the depth of my heart for supporting this work over the years. It is all too easy to become jaded and/or overwhelmed by the challenging circumstances we have created as a culture. Just as our forgetfulness may open us to greater depths of remembrance, however, whatever we have co-created may allow for truly unprecedented healing and renewal. In the light of such hope, I remain yours.
Blessed Be.
Rick
The spirit of vocation expands beyond the “how to” dictums and the “where do I fit in” questions. The Spirit of vocation explodes the myth of success and the new age capitalist focus on ‘the spirit of me.” Success, as money and adulation, has become the prevailing religion, and make no mistake; it is a religion of scarcity. What we are seeking is true contact, a lived experience of solidarity with others, a profound sense of belonging, not ratings or sheckles that we count in the privacy of our isolation. The spirit of vocation manifests as the healing dedication of a nurse, the protective impulse of a police officer, and the flame of justice in a community organizer.
The spirit of vocation lends importance to any task because it has become linked in with a greater power, one that takes us beyond our pettiness and complaining, one that ennobles us, challenges us to be courageous, and to be truly and authentically alive. We may call this spirit an “archetype,” a “divinity,” or whatever we like, but it is known through its communicability. It can touch the heart. It can change the course of a life. It can, in a blinding instant, completely transform a landscape and make any “job” fulfilling. Do not live as a supplicant job seeker. Do not sell your soul to the corporate mission, if it is not your own. Rather, ask that the spirit of vocation be revealed in each moment, that your work may truly serve the greater good, and the reclamation of the Way.
Rick’s late 2007/early 2008 workshops are now available to see on the blog’s ‘workshops’ page: http://alchemyofabundance.wordpress.com/events/ Reminder: he is taking a break from his usual workshop schedule next year. Hopefully we will see a personal message from him soon, re: his plans and intentions.
