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Career & Call Online Course

January 22, 2022
Center for Transforming Engagement

Your call is more all-encompassing than any single career.

Call is how you put together lots of elements of your life–your relationships, recreation, and non-paid work–into a meaningful whole. No single role in your career can bear all the weight of your need for purpose.

That said, over a lifetime you will probably spend more time at your places of work than you spend doing any other single activity.

Taking the time to find work worth doing, a career that fits you well, is an important investment.

In this Career & Call course, you will learn a practice you can do again and again.

By watching the 9-video lessons and completing the various worksheets, you will learn a process of discovery and discernment that you can use over and over again in making life decisions both now and in the future.

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What you will learn:

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Identify common myths of calling and helpful reframing.
  2. Grow your call to include all aspects of your life.
  3. Look back on the journey that led you to where you are.
  4. Explore your strengths, gifts, and desires.
  5. Imagine several possible futures.
  6. Generate action plans for taking your next steps.
What is included?

Each lesson consists of 2-4 videos and reflective exercises in the accompanying Workbook.

This course consists of:

  1. Course Introduction
  2. Cultural Frameworks: Exploring Myths of Call
  3. Shapes of Call: Life Chapters
  4. Inheritance: Family, Culture, Community
  5. Strengths: Name and Reflect on your Strengths
  6. Course Interlude: Transitioning Your Focus
  7. Redemptive Stories: Identifying Meaningful Call and Purpose
  8. Metaphors of Call
  9. Possible Selves: Imagining the Future
  10. Action Plan & Prototypes
Preview the course material:

This course consists of 9 lessons. Each lesson consists of 2-4 videos and reflective exercises in the accompanying Guidebook. Plan to spend at least 60 mins per lesson, though you can divide that into several shorter sittings if you prefer. You can view a sample of the Workbook by clicking here.

“I LOVED this material! It was helpful as I am in a season of discovering my calling more and more and seeking God for what He has made me for. I loved the workbook sheets about calling that we received and was grateful for the time to work on it.”
– Sandhya Oaks, Campus Minister and Cofounder of The Adoption Triad

“The workbook was super helpful. Taking time to go through the many different ways the workbook draws out calling and desire was priceless. It helped me to better understand what I was doing and why I was doing it. In one of the exercises, I was surprised to find myself rating leadership even higher than counseling which helped me take some important next steps.”
– Holly Pankrazt, Owner of Reflection Counseling and Minister of Care and Equipping at Westminster Chapel

Upcoming Virtual Summit: Leading During Polarizing Times

Designed to help ministry leaders navigate the stress, fear, and uncertainty around holding extreme differences during this challenging time. Click below to learn more and register!

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Full attendance and participation during all sessions are expected to complete the program.
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Please consider the schedule closely to ensure you will be able to participate in the virtual meetings, and block off your calendar to ensure your attendance. Should you have an emergency (illness, situations out of your control) that will impact your participation please email transforming@theseattleschool.edu
Time commitment:
Two hours one day per month for 8 months, dates to be determined by majority of registrants' availability and adjusted as needed during the first group meeting.
Your feedback is immensely valuable!
As an essential component of your participation in this program, we ask that you provide us with your honest, candid, and timely feedback in program surveys and conversations, and consider providing reviews or testimonials of the program for promotional use.
Code of Conduct:
The Center for Transforming Engagement strives for intentionality in the ways we relate to one another - how we as a team relate to each other, how we relate to participants, and how we hope participants will relate to us and one another. To that end, we hold cultural norms about the ways we interact with one another. Your participation in this program is contingent on your agreement to abide by these cultural norms. i. For growth to happen, we all need to be able to share about the deeper challenges we face. To provide that atmosphere of openness and support, you commit to not sharing personal information that is shared in program meetings. ii. In our interactions with each other and our communities, we practice the humility of not-knowing that is required to listen and discover. iii. Be aware of different cultural and characterological ways of communicating, and invite others’ voices. Respect theological differences: the river of Christian orthodoxy is wide, and while the streams of that river are distinct, they are not inherently better or worse. Even if you can’t respect the belief, treat the person with respect. iiii. We value both thoughts and feelings as valuable pieces of information that inform one another, and inform our learning and discerning together. iv. Be in the here and now (not mentally somewhere or some time else), with the people who are sharing their time and stories with you. Eliminate any distractions possible.
Fair Use Policy
All program content, recordings, and materials are the intellectual property of The Seattle School and may not be presented, distributed, or replicated. The Seattle School retains the copyright for all recorded content. Some print materials (PDFs, worksheets, journal prompts, etc.) will be licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike. Those materials will be available for download on our website, and may be used as long as the following conditions are met: (1) attribute to the Center for Transforming Engagement even if remixed/modified; (2) do not use for commercial (paid) purposes; and (3) anything you make that remixes or builds upon this material, you must also distribute under Creative Commons. More information on this license is available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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Full attendance and participation during all sessions are expected to complete the program. Please consider the schedule closely to ensure you will be able to participate in the virtual meetings, and block off your calendar to ensure your attendance. Should you have an emergency (illness, situations out of your control) that will impact your participation please email transforming@theseattleschool.edu Time commitment: Two hours one day per month for 8 months, dates to be determined by majority of registrants' availability and adjusted as needed during the first group meeting. Your feedback is immensely valuable! As an essential component of your participation in this program, we ask that you provide us with your honest, candid, and timely feedback in program surveys and conversations, and consider providing reviews or testimonials of the program for promotional use. 2. Code of Conduct The Center for Transforming Engagement strives for intentionality in the ways we relate to one another - how we as a team relate to each other, how we relate to participants, and how we hope participants will relate to us and one another. To that end, we hold cultural norms about the ways we interact with one another. Your participation in this program is contingent on your agreement to abide by these cultural norms. Confidentiality. For growth to happen, we all need to be able to share about the deeper challenges we face. To provide that atmosphere of openness and support, you commit to not sharing personal information that is shared in program meetings. Curiosity. In our interactions with each other and our communities, we practice the humility of not-knowing that is required to listen and discover. Respect differences. Be aware of different cultural and characterological ways of communicating, and invite others’ voices. Respect theological differences: the river of Christian orthodoxy is wide, and while the streams of that river are distinct, they are not inherently better or worse. Even if you can’t respect the belief, treat the person with respect. You are invited to be a whole person, with both thoughts and feelings. We value both thoughts and feelings as valuable pieces of information that inform one another, and inform our learning and discerning together. Presence. Be in the here and now (not mentally somewhere or some time else), with the people who are sharing their time and stories with you. Eliminate any distractions possible. 3. Fair Use Policy All program content, recordings, and materials are the intellectual property of The Seattle School and may not be presented, distributed, or replicated. The Seattle School retains the copyright for all recorded content. Some print materials (PDFs, worksheets, journal prompts, etc.) will be licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike. Those materials will be available for download on our website, and may be used as long as the following conditions are met: (1) attribute to the Center for Transforming Engagement even if remixed/modified; (2) do not use for commercial (paid) purposes; and (3) anything you make that remixes or builds upon this material, you must also distribute under Creative Commons. More information on this license is available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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