balance life and work to enrich your life and work
Work Differently: Visionary Organizing for Professional and Organizational Development is a four week training for individuals that supports people to develop an approach to work and their organization that equally emphasizes their material and non-material needs. Participants name their personal callings, explore how to apply it to their work, and develop plans to meet their non-material work needs and navigate the difficulties that arise within an organization. By engaging participants with media on history and processes to see how oppressive systems lead people away from their spiritual wisdom, VOL teacher-facilitators root participants in four of the six components of Visionary Organizing and help people understand what it means to exist and work differently. With this knowledge participants are empowered to meet their non-material needs by reconnecting to their inner-wisdom, tapping into their specific gifts, and explore how to use them in the world, their jobs, within organizations, and stand in them when times are difficult. Individuals develop a clear sense of their personal purpose and be able to identify how to make their organizational/professional work align with it.
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Professionals in direct service jobs who want to better understand how to use their gifts at work
Professionals in non-profit jobs who want to better understand how to use their gifts at work
Professionals who want to feel better about their jobs
Professionals who might want to leave their jobs and pursue something more aligned with their hearts
People who are frustrated with the culture of their organization but don’t want to leave
People interested in following their hearts professionally
People who are excited about possibility and human potential
People who value systems thinking and are curious about emergence
Generally curious, open-hearted people
People who want to apply spiritual principles to work
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A new commitment to your work, yourself, and ability to navigate your organizational or workplace culture with your humanity intact
An ability to name your gifts and and personal calling(s)
A vision for practicing your personal calling and gifts in their job or organization
Processes to improve your alignment with your calling
Skills to see and understand your own role in conflict
Skills to equally emphasize your material and non-material needs in life and work
An understanding of how your organization or workplace has internalized oppressive values and how to emphasize your non-material needs in that context