Discerning and Equipping Vocation Claire Pedrick 3dcoaching

1. Discerning and Equipping VocationClaire Pedrickwww.3dcoaching.com

3. Better done with strangers? Seeking The Way

4. What do we need to do to make the next two hours a valuable use of your time?

5. More than caring • Defence – Corporate – Plumbing - CEO – paid ministry – volunteering - anything! • No one vocation is more special than another

6. Our definition of work: • What you do when you earn money • What you do as a volunteer • What you do raising a family or caring

7. Discernment • Latin • Dis – sift • Cernere – apart • Not decision making but insight and seeing things differently • Vocation – a strong feeling of suitablility

8. Entry Points • thinking about changing career • forced to think it through • circumstances may have changed and it’s time to return to work • screensaver • nudges: Is God telling me to do something different? • ‘have you though about?’ v God is telling me to tell you

9. Know what’s in your toolbox • Go Window Shopping • Know your purpose • Have a vision and a strategy • Look at your situation from other perspectives – how does God normally guide you?

10. Do the Maths • Plan Time To Think and pray • Create your team • Don’t burn your bridges • Have a good action plan – CV, you do the work…

11. “Where your talents and the needs of the world collide, there lies your vocation”Aristotle

12. Called and competent enough? Is the gap fillable?

13. Self understanding and truth-telling • Internally thought AND externally noticed

14. Most people don’t know what their gifts and skills are • What’s in my toolkit? • Mindmap • Audit • Rocket science

15. The Angel’s Bag • Think about the angel who had to project manage the arrival of the great company of the heavenly host in the fields outside Bethlehem • What skills did they use • NOT tasks • What skills are there that we don’t expect

16. John Adair: ‘The door that leads to vocation is open to us all’

17. Of 132 public appearances Jesus made, 122 were in the marketplace Of 52 parables Jesus told, 45 were in the workplace context More than 75% of the characters in the Bible were working people who did ministry as part of their work

18. ‘Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.’ Colossians 3: 23-24

19. Dedication Fit More than money alone Creativity Enthusiastic Humble Tenacious Service Love

20. Tool 3: What I do • Describe what you do (skills) Not what you are (nouns) • Write them down – which are strengths – that you are good at? Which are passions? • In 24 hours... • Imagine someone else is bad at your job – what makes you good?

21. Generating new ideas: • Can you think beyond the obvious 30? • What are the needs of the world – in all sectors? Not just the needs of the church

22. Listening to others

23. Avocation – a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to our vocation “I have come that they might have life in all its fullness” Jesus

24. Avocation What you are good at AND What the organisation wants

25. Joseph 21st Century Career • Developed new skills • Gained experience • Made connections and contacts • Tried out new things • Sometimes made money – sometimes didn’t • Found a few angels • Strategic Volunteering

26. Joseph Sheppard-Lord

27. Finding other clues • Don’t use the internet as your primary finding tool! • Guardian every day for 2 weeks • Talk – listen – try out

28. Whose job have you always wanted? • What’s your most important question? It’s not what can I do? It’s what can I do that will use... won’t.... and will... Be honest and write it down – however clunky! • Have some good conversations • Ask 5 people to tell you 20 things they could see you doing. You’ll have thought of the first 5, but... • Try some of these on for size – as an intern, on a day off, in a week’s holiday...

29. How does God normally guide you...? How do you know if something is right? • How has God guided you and others in the past? • What about now? • Take a look back over past career decisions and explore what next this time

32. Vocation • About risk and stretch • Jonah • Peter

33. Sequential Multiple Vocations • Phases and priorities • Combinations – vocation as a parent + avocation at work (or vice versa!)

34. Come to the edge.We might fall.Come to the edge.It’s too high!COME TO THE EDGE!So they cameand he pushedand they flew.Christopher Logue (or Apollinaire)

35. Who takes responsibility? Who takes responsibility?

36. “The story doesn’t begin until it’s been told” Jeremy Clare

37. “We also need to break the perception that God prefers us to settle into being low achievers, or we will fail to make an impact on our communities. Paul strained forward to achieve fully an ambition that God gave him. This conviction sustained him throughout every imaginable adversity and enabled him to say in the end that he had ‘fought the good fight’ and had ‘finished the race’. That should be our life’s mission.” Ken Costa, God at Work

38. ‘I have come that they may have life in all its fullness’ Jesus • Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you’re being while you’re doing whatever you’re doing. Neale Donald Walsch • Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. Mother Teresa

39. Give honest and developmental feedback • Pray for people at work – not just in crisis • Use workplace images • Interviews • Posters • Maps • Run a vocations course • Give honest feedback

40. “When someone thinks of work as a calling rather than merely a job, the experience of working is transformed.” William DamonWendy’s story

41. What is ‘it’? “The Banks of the Yangtze give it depth, drive and direction”

42. 3D Juggling – all our new ideas every week: career change, leadership, coaching • www.3dcoaching.com • FB: 3D Coaching • Twitter: 3dclaire