Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life

[Guest guest]

Finding and Following an Authentic Life

With Gregg Levoy Author of Callings

 

At The Caritas Spiritist Center, 3775 Iris Ave., Suite 3B, Boulder

 

 

 

 

Any leap you want to make in your professional or personal life that

will align or re-align you with your passion and sense of purpose, with

your deepest values, with a fit between who you are and what you do is,

by definition, a calling.

 

That calling could be to make a career change or creative leap, take on

a new role or let go of an old one, launch a new venture, or simply make

a course-correction in your life or work. This hands-on workshop will

take a creative approach to the challenges of listening and responding

to those calls. The result of engaging your deepest passions-----and

thus motivations-----will show up in your work and in your life as

greater enthusiasm, creativity and health.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The key issues explored in the Callings workshop are:

 

* Articulating your callings

* Working with resistance

* Identifying allies

* Creating an action plan

* Gaining a renewed sense of direction and possibilities

 

 

 

WHO WILL BENEFIT

The Callings workshop is designed to benefit any individual seeking to

ignite a sense of passion and mission in their lives and their work, or

workplaces. Callings seminars have helped people in life or career

transition, CEO's, managers, entrepreneurs, career counselors,

clergy, writers, artists, and students.

 

 

Lecture: Friday, April 3, 7 – 9 pm $20

Workshop: Saturday, April 4, 9 am – 5 pm $125 (includes Friday

lecture)

 

 

 

To register, call: 303-449-3066

 

For directions: www.CaritasSpiritistCenter.org

<http://www.caritasspiritistcenter.org/>

 

For more information on Gregg Levoy: www.gregglevoy.com

<http://www.gregglevoy.com/>

 

 

 

Highly engaging! Gregg's keynote was one of the highlights of our

conference. " Ken Patch, National Career Development Association

 

 

 

Gregg Levoy: As a fulltime lecturer and seminar-leader in the business,

educational and human-potential arenas, Gregg has Keynoted at state,

national & international conferences of the National Career Development

Association (NCDA), the American Counseling Association (ACA), the

International Association of Career Management Professionals (IACMP),

and has presented workshops at the Smithsonian Institution, Microsoft,

American Express, BP Amoco, Ascension Health, Michigan National Bank,

National League of Cities, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),

the Universities of California/Arizona/Nevada/Wisconsin/Texas/Colorado

and others, The Executive Committee (TEC), the School for Managing and

Leading Change, the International Mass Retail Association, Esalen

Institute, Omega Institute, and others. He has also been a frequent

guest of the media, including ABC-TV, CNN, NPR and PBS

 

 

Reviews of Callings

" An absolutely superb book. I was stunned by it. It strikes right to the

soul. It's like a remembrance of everything you knew but then forgot. "

---- Jean Houston, author " The Possible Human, " " The Search for the

Beloved, " " A Mythic Life. "

 

" Gregg Levoy offers a discerning eye for peering into one's life

to translate the recurring symptoms of refusing the inner voices, to

gather the courage to answer what calls. He does this with good writing,

humor, and a strong clarion voice. "

---- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., author of Women Who Run With the

Wolves, The Gift of Story, and The Faithful Gardener

 

 

 

" Gregg Levoy has written about the nature of guidance with a ringing

clarity. CALLINGS is a spiritual seduction that gives form to a

universal mystery. I'd recommend it to anyone who is seeking to hold

the divine hand through a transition in their lives. "

---- Caroline Myss, Ph.D., author of Anatomy of the Spirit

 

 

 

Review from NOETIC SCIENCES:

 

Listening for your life's deepest call

 

Writer Gregg Levoy, starting a four-month break from work, realized he

" needed `space'----distance from all that was pressing in on

me. I needed a penetrating quiet inside, and I needed to hold that

silence up to my ears, like an empty shell, and listen to the roar of my

own life. I had to try to make out what direction to take next. When I

told a colleague what I planned to do now.....he asked, `What are

you, rich?' `No,' I replied. `Desperate.' "

 

This spirit of passionate inquiry suffuses Levoy's pragmatic, guided

approach to creating a more authentic life, in Callings. He helps the

reader to identify what a calling is, how to prepare oneself to better

hear the calls in our lives, how to actively invoke callings, and then

what to do with them. The book's latter two parts, " Saying No to

Calls " and " Saying Yes to Calls, " are excellent, alone worth

the price of the book. In contrast to a popular but overly simplistic

and linear " create your own reality " philosophy, Levoy warns

that simply following our callings doesn't guarantee any particular

outcome…

 

Levoy so skillfully weaves the wisdom and insights of an amazing variety

of sources and authors into his text that one barely notices how

scholarly and well-researched the book actually is. Following along as

easily as if one were floating on a gentle stream, it becomes clear that

the crafter of this experience is indeed " called " to the work of

the writer. From his first sentence to his last, Levoy's writing is

a feast, filled with rich description, provocative metaphors, and

passionate aliveness.

 

Callings can inspire us to listen more deeply to the truth of our own

lives, and, more important, to respond to what we hear-----and that

dialogue can make all the difference.

 

Reviewed by Janet F. Quinn