Depth-Oriented Career
Counseling
a holistic approach
to your career
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Jason
E. Smith, M.A.
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“If
you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track
that
has been there all the while, waiting for you,
and
the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
Wherever
you are – if you are following your bliss,
you
are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.”
~
Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth, 1988, p.113)
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Hearing
The Call
With
over 50% of Americans--and 56% of New Englanders--unhappy at work (The Conference Board, 2002), it is clear
that something is wrong with this aspect of our lives.
Depth-oriented career counseling is a unique approach to helping you
discover a work that is a vital source of meaning, purpose, and satisfaction.
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Depth-oriented
career counseling is for people who want to find work that brings them
satisfaction and joy rather than just exhaustion or burn out. It is for
anyone who has ever thought, "How can I get a good job if I don't even know
what I want?" Most of all, it is for people who need more than just a
routine; people who feel some crucial part of their life is still unlived and
are longing for some place to express that part.
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We are featured in a recent Boston Globe Article.
Check it out:
"Mid-career workers craft new, hands-on occupations"
by
By Joan
Axelrod-Contrada
Globe Correspondent, 2/22/04
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Depth-oriented
career counseling is ideal for:
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anyone
making, or considering, a career transition |
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people
currently working who feel "stuck" and want to revitalize their
work lives. |
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people
about to re-enter the workforce after a prolonged absence |
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stay-at-home
mothers and fathers considering a return to the workforce |
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anyone
looking for work that provides a sense of meaning and purpose. |
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The
primary goal of this approach is to tend the soul of an individual’s
work life. I begin with the
viewpoint that each of us has a calling that can be expressed through our
work. In fact, the original
meaning of the word “vocation” was “a calling.”
As a depth-oriented career counselor, I
use activities and exercises designed to help you begin to hear the voice
of your calling.
Read my article:
10 Ways To Recover a Sense of
Calling in Your Life |
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Cultivating
Imagination
Our
callings are expressed through the images that arise in the imagination.
It is therefore necessary to become aware of this deep imagination in
which the images and impulses of your deepest self appear.
Working together with you, I help you understand and honor the images of
the imagination as reflections of unknown or unrealized potential to do or be
something more or different than you are now.
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In
both individual and group settings, I provide you with exercises that tap into
your creativity, even if you think you are not a creative person.
In our sessions we will use dreams, journaling, and artwork—as well as
some of the more conventional self-assessment tools—to help you uncover your talents,
interests, values, and hidden strengths.
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Find
Your Passion
The
ultimate goal of depth-oriented career counseling is to reclaim those lost
dreams of the people we want to be and the lives we want to lead.
It is to develop a perspective on life that has the power to transform
restlessness into purpose and boredom into joy.
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No
one can promise a life free of difficulties, but as the writer Paulo Coelho has
said, “The dream is the start of something greater, something that impels us
to make daring decisions. And
it’s true that the person who pursues a dream takes many risks.
But the person who does not runs risks that are even greater.”
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Contact Me
If
you would like more information on the depth-oriented career counseling program,
or if you would like to schedule a consultation , call Your
Soul's Work
at (617) 935-3451 or send me an email at
jason@yoursoulswork.com
Skype sessions available.
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References
Campbell,
J. (1988). The power of myth. New York: Vantage Books.
The
Conference Board. (2002) URL:
http://www.conference-board.org/search/dpress.cfm?pressid=4728
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