The Centre for Spirituality at Work |
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U.of T.’s St. Michael’s College Continuing Education |
FROM JOB TO VOCATION: 3 NEW PROGRAMS |
Connecting with who you are and what you do amazingly shifts work from being only a job to being vocation. In moving through this transformation, you may find that you are already in the place to where you are called, but just didn’t have the eyes to see it. Or you may find that a dramatic change demanding real courage is called for. For most people, it lies somewhere in between. The Centre for Spirituality at Work offers three programs, along with optional career counselling. To help you on this journey, the programs are best when taken as a series, but can be selected separately |
TAKING CHARGE OF LIFE - FOLLOWING THE PATH THAT LEADS YOU |
Each and every life has its own magnificence and uniqueness. Can we allow this to guide us and shine forth in our work and relationships? Each of us has our own outer biography represented by the outer tasks, experiences, challenges and circumstances of our particular life. In parallel with this we have an individual destiny which has created a landscape of meetings, opportunities, relationships and crises against which our inner biography, our life of soul and eternal spirit is continually invited to unfold and make a unique contribution. On this weekend workshop you will be led through a reflective and artistic program that will help you explore the hidden patterns and meaning of your own inner and outer biography. Developing a true wonder and gratefulness for the innate wisdom of the path of your life can awaken a deeper insight and enthusiasm for what your future is asking and offering. |
Instructor: Hamo Hammond, BSc (Chem. Eng.), MBA, is an organization development consultant working to help create workplaces where the human spirit can thrive. For over 20 years he has worked with clients in the voluntary sector as well as in businesses. He is currently chair of ACCORD, the Association for Creative Change in Organizational Renewal and Development. |
CSW04 - In partnership with U.of T.’s St. Michael’s College Continuing Ed. Please visit their website for registration details and to learn about the Blue Card Passport to Learning, which offers reduced and waived fees for many of their courses. |
Dates: Weekend of February 1, 2, and 3, 2002 |
Time: Friday 7 – 9:30, Saturday 9 – 4:30 with brown bag lunch, and 1:30 – 4:30 Sunday |
Fee: $250, Blue Card Passport: $150 |
Location: Metro Hall, 3rd floor, 155 John St. at King St. W., Toronto |
To Register: www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/cont_ed |
Phone: 416-926-7254 |
CAREERS FOR HEART AND SPIRIT |
This interactive career-planning program combines self-knowledge, intuition and guidance, relaxation and visualization, with the practicalities of the identification of solid options, decision making processes and personal financial awareness. Group work while we are together, and individual work between classes and following the program can lead to an understanding of your potential careers for heart and spirit. Materials consist of a workbook and two CDs entitled Identifying the Dream and Creating the Dream. |
Instructors: Sherry Connolly, MBA, MDiv Cand., is founder and director of the Centre for Spirituality at Work and a consultant to parishes, non-profits, and businesses. Her management career included several corporations and focused on new product and service development and strategic planning. In early 1999, she took a leap of faith to follow her calling, and has shifted from career to vocation. |
George Beshara is the author of Careers for Heart and Spirit, which brings a spiritual approach to the career planning process (www.heartandspirit.com). He is a career transition coach and professional trainer with more than 20 years of consulting and human resources experience and who has been in private practice since 1983. |
CSW05 - In partnership with U.of T.’s St. Michael’s College Continuing Ed. Please visit their website for registration details and to learn about the Blue Card Passport to Learning, which offers reduced and waived fees for many of their courses. |
Date: 3 Wednesday evenings. |
February 20 -- March 6, 2002 |
Time: 6:30pm – 9:30pm |
Location: Laura Davis Room at the Baha’i Centre, 288 Bloor St. West at Huron St, Toronto |
Fee: $100 plus $60 materials Blue Card Passport: $60 materials. |
To Register: www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/cont_ed |
Phone: 416-926-7254 |
EVOLVING TO VOCATION... |
On our final weekend together, you will retreat from your normal life to be inspired and refreshed at the Ecology Retreat Centre (http://welcome.to/ecorc) in the lovely Hockley Valley near Orangeville. To help you integrate all your new knowledge and self-knowledge, to aid your search for discernment and clarity in your calling. This weekend will provide an opportunity to gain further insights and through your interaction with the natural world it will also give an ecological context to vocation. Our sense of calling in the new millennium must not only ‘be in service of other people’s hungers’ but must also be in service to the earth if we are to achieve inner and outer harmony. Instructor: Marianne Karsh, BScF, MScF, R.P.F. is founder and director of Arborvitae, dedicated to nourishing spirituality through nature (www.arborvitae.org). She has a deep passion for re-connecting people to the earth through her in-depth knowledge of spiritual traditions as they relate to the beneficial aspects of nature. Marianne, a Registered Professional Forester and research scientist, has been leading nature and spirituality field trips, courses and seminars since 1982. She is the co-author of "Trees, Forestry and the Responsiveness of Creation", published in This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature and the Environment, Roger Gottlieb (ed.), (1996). CSW06 - In partnership with U.of T.’s St. Michael’s College Continuing Ed. Please visit their website for registration details and to learn about the Blue Card Passport to Learning, which offers reduced and waived fees for many of their courses. |
Date: From Friday dinner, April 5 to after lunch Sunday, April 7, 2002 |
Fee: $300 plus $175 for 2 nights double accommodation and 6 meals. |
Blue Card Passport: $200 plus room & board. |
To Register: www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/cont_ed |
Phone: 416-926-7254 |
INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING |
For many who are truly serious about career change, a personal counsellor during the transition is a must in order to stay motivated and to take appropriate action. Sybilla Mansfeldt, a highly qualified career counsellor and experienced guide for those on a path to vocation, will be available on a paid consulting basis throughout and following the program. She will also make referrals to other counsellors as needed. |
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Centre for Spirituality at Work |
Last updated: January 20/02 |