Are you doing the things your heart is calling you to and following the creative flow of your life? I believe that we change when we listen to ourselves and that we can fall in love with our heart’s imagination and live what we come to know when that way of knowing becomes available to us. Maybe the deepest questions we have are not about becoming an expert or a professional, but about becoming ourselves. Maybe our lives require this much effort to make them meaningful.
Having worked in education as an Assistant Professor in Psychology for over a decade, it has become clear to me that becoming conscious of our inner worlds matters and there are gifts within us. Yet this work is not being supported and even psychology is drawing us away from ourselves and what can be given from within. Modern psychology seems unwilling to acknowledge that it can be the discipline that brings back people who have been dislocated from themselves and who are missing from the life in which they are needed. We may write and talk about this, but we do not live what we say. We also find it difficult to see the worth of a person without scales of measurement. I believe that psychology needs to become more truthful to its origins and that it needs to evoke soul. We need to do more to learn how to be together without limiting each other and sustain this interest in relationship as the critical element. I believe these things are possible if we come together to work on them. But who wants to commit their time in this way?
Deep Callings is an initiative to re-orient psychology so we can feel more clearly who we are at a deeper level and to further that sense of trust in depth and possibility that can arise when we feel the territory of life we have been entrusted with. The intention of this work is to create educational conversations that expand and amplify what can be known and which allow individuals to be the person they are from this deeper, more embodied perspective that tends to surface when their freedom is being supported.
‘The tasks that have been entrusted to us are often difficult. Almost everything that matters is difficult, and everything matters.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke