WELCOME TO DEEP VOCATION!
Finding and Following Your Life's Purpose and Passion
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Opening Session Materials
Recommended General Books on Vocation (click on any book to read the description on Amazon)
(Super white-male centric. With apologies. I tried. Desperately open for recommendations.)
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Module 1: Individuation and Vocation -
Closing the Gaps
Journaling Suggestions
Suggested Readings
James Hollis: "Career Versus Vocation" (16 pages)
James Hollis: "The Collision of Selves" (24 pages)
Thomas Moore: "Reconciling With the Past" (12 pages)
Parker Palmer: "Now I Become Myself" (9 pages)
Select Books on the Second Half of Life
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Select Videos on the Second Half of Life and the Quarter-life Crisis
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Module 2: Daimons, Genuises, and Wyrds -
Oh My!
Journaling Suggestions
Suggested Readings
Michael Meade: "Genius Transforms the World" (12 pages)
Michael Meade: "Genius is the Star in Man" (13 pages)
James Hollis: "That We Step Into Largeness" (17 pages)
James Hillman: "In a Nutshell: The Acorn Theory and the Redemption of Psychology" (38 pages)
Michael Meade: "On Receiving a Book On Mythology" (2 pages)
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Module 3: Peaks and Vales - Learning From Our Symptomatic and Bliss Bodies
Journaling Suggestions
Suggested Readings
Thomas Moore: "Loving What You Do" (16 pages)
James Hollis: "That We Find and Follow the Path of Creativity and Delight in Foolish Passions" (29 pages)
Marion Woodman: "Bone: Dying Into Life" (29 pages)
Abraham Maslow: "A Theory of Metamotivation: The Biological Rooting of the Value-Life" (32 pages)
Abraham Maslow: "Qualities of Self-Actualizing People" (10 pages)
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Listen to rock star goddess Christine Downing speak live at the Deep Vocation residential in 2018
Read more about Dr. Downing here.
Read more about Dr. Downing here.
Module 4: Consulting Our Deaths for What Gives Our Lives Meaning, Purpose, and Value
Journaling Suggestions
Suggested Readings
Gregg Levoy: "Consult Your Death" (3 pages)
Steven Levine: "Catching Up With Your Life" (5 pages)
Steven Levine: "Practice Dying" (6 pages)
Emily Esfanhani Smith: "Purpose" (24 pages)
John Demartini: "Values Come From Voids" (4 pages)
Karen Horney: "The Tyranny of the Should" (22 pages)
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Bronnie Ware: "The Top Five Regrets of the Dying"
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Module 5: What Type Systems Can Reveal About Our Vocational Superpowers
No Specific Journaling Suggestions This Module
Suggested Readings
No readings, in order to allow you to explore different type systems and all the bonus links and materials
Bonus Video--Jennifer's Conversation with Evolutionary Astrologist Joey Paynter (25:47 minutes)
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Module 6: Ancestral Perspectives -
Calls and Responses
Journaling Suggestions
Suggested Readings
Malidoma Some: "Introduction" and "Slowly Becoming" (24 pages)
Sandra Easter: "Introduction to the Work" (13 pages)
Sandra Easter: "Beyond Biography" (25 pages)
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My ancestral story--22 minute audio--in which I tie together various strands of the course with some of my own ancestral research
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Suggested Links and Books
Website to Search for What Happened On Your Birthday
Link to Sandra Easter's Website
Link to Malidoma Some's Websitemalidoma.com/main/
Link to Sobonfu Some's Website
Website for Finding the Meaning of Baby Names (Cross Cultural)
Link to Sandra Easter's Website
Link to Malidoma Some's Websitemalidoma.com/main/
Link to Sobonfu Some's Website
Website for Finding the Meaning of Baby Names (Cross Cultural)
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