IONS Community Exploration

Career Transition in Challenging Times

Creating an Integrally Meaningful and Sustainable Future

Mon. June 9, 2008
7:00-9:15 PM
Eastshore Unitarian
Directions to 12700 SE 32nd (I-90 and Richards RD)
Bellevue at Factoria

These are challenging times. The excitement of the elections, the emotional deflation of inflation, and the command to action for environmental sustainability show us we are really at a tipping point.

Many in the Northwest are challenged with career changes and work transition. Faced with a conflict of values and meaningful ways to deal with change, many are struggling to support themselves.

Some feel they need to claim the life they were meant to live yet question what that is. Many currently yearn to apply their skills toward helping midwife a world in transition. They hear a call to sustainability and to altruism. Some have heard it through motivational speakers, encouraging creation of dream careers toward making the world work for all. They challenge us to align our ultimate life purpose with our work in the world.

With a trend toward personal transformation in the transitioning from an economy based on consumption to an economy based on values, all of this can be confusing. We seek a sense of place in our work, and can at the same time feel aimless and helpless, especially when this inspiration makes it all seem within our grasp, yet the reality of survival skills are needed.

Often speakers do not outline methods to make them a reality. Moreover, many feel trapped in the flux of a world where the economy has gone mad. Some feel lost on just how to connect and actualize their passion or even wonder how to find it. And there are those forced to transition to new careers, while others feel blocked in adequately steering their careers, taking them to the next level, or even making their meaningful work support them.

If you are seeking career change or forced into it, lack the confidence to stretch yourself to new heights, gather momentum to reach for your highest goals, want to leverage your skills for a new world, or long for a community of support as you stretch into a transforming world, then join us.

We will spend an evening exploring meaningful and sustainable ways to career transition. Bring your past and present experience to share, your current quest, and any concern or offering you have to share with others. We will intentionally gather, network, share, and create ongoing support.

The evening will be facilitated by Susan Burns, specialized as a career transition consultant and psychotherapist.