Approaching Vocation: Teaching/Learning Materials
There are many ways to introduce and explore vocation. All of these materials have been used successfully at Concordia. Each of the approaches comes with a designed experience and many come with supporting materials and suggestions for further exploration. All you need is time, interest and an ability to facilitate the experience of a group!
- Concordia's Reflective Model of Vocation introduces the big questions of vocation (Who am I? What are the authentic needs of my communities? What is really important? How do I reflect and discern?).
- Talents and Skills is a more concrete and practical approach, asking students to consider their own capacities.
- lifeStories asks students to consider both significant experiences as well as overarching themes that reappear in their lives.
- Conflict or Transformation? focuses on stories and values, asking whether we're living stories rooted in conflict or in transformation. The first centers on winning and the second on development.
- SUCCESS! explores personal, familial and wider cultural definitions of success as we consider what would comprise a successful life.
- The Actual Me and the Supposed-to-be Me challenges participants to dig deeper into the question, Who am I? What is authentic and what is simply buying into messages about who we are supposerd-to-be?
- Childhood lifeClues is a fast-paced session that encourages participants to refind their childhood dreams, characteristics and favorite activities, recognizing that much is still current!
- Interviewing Someone Further Down a Path is a great way to catch a glimpse of someone else's life and vocation. In turn, we may be able to see our own life and vocation more clearly.