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Clarity and Courage: A Vocation and Transition Program

2006· article· en· W275353050 on OpenAlex
Tim Elliott

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Career Planning and Adult Development Journal · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicAgriculture and Farm Safety
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCourageActive listeningCLARITYSociologySilenceMedia studiesPsychologyAestheticsLawPolitical sciencePhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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This article describes a program that begins with identifying the questions one is asking and not asking, realizing what is clear and not clear, and reflecting on gifts of and need for courage to move forward. Introduction During 25 years as a congregational minister, I saw first hand people's struggles to make sense of their lives. What were they here on earth to do? I became fascinated with the idea that life is a series of chapters. I thought of the transitional stages as doors that connect the chapters, sometimes tenuously. times, all of us are trapped by indecision between two worlds: I learned that for all of us, we can easily get stuck between If I don't know I won't go, but if I won't go, I won't know. Before my ordination in the Anglican Church of Canada, I had two related careers in broadcasting and corporate communications. My own questions led to several years of indecision. After exploring options, I was ordained and spent a major portion of my life in congregational ministry. I noticed that many people like me could use help in identifying their direction. This notion was reinforced when I began to offer a listening ear and some things to think about to those in transition. They said that I was helping them to choose among the doors of possibility that life presented to them. This interest led to the Doctor of Ministry program at the Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto. There I studied vocation by taking courses in Work and Well-being, Social Analysis, Scripture and Spirituality. My doctoral research project was designing, implementing, and evaluating a pastoral guidance program. What I wanted to study was the phenomenon of a pastor meeting individually with congregants. The program I designed used self-reflection exercises. What I learned was that such a project was very worthwhile for the participants and also for me their pastoral guide. They reported increased clarity and resolution about their life. I learned a lot about what it means to care for people in a structured, negotiated and supportive process. I felt that I was on holy ground as things opened up for them. My dissertation was entitled: Work and Vocation: A Pastoral Guidance Program (Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto, 1988). I learned many things as a result of this earlier research, some of which are reflected in this article. I noticed that most people find their way through transitions with the help of family and friends. Some people, however, need more help and support. I concluded that those who would benefit from support needed: some one to listen respectfully while they sorted things out; some one to ask the right questions and to help them see what they were dealing with; some one to encourage them; and finally a framework to connect their unfolding journey with a vocation so they could move forward in faith. I took early retirement to pursue this vocational interest and began to offer my services to people in transition, using self-reflection exercises I had developed as part of my research. I developed a new approach and called the program Clarity and Courage. The Clarity and Courage Program Many people find themselves in the middle of one of the 'hinges' between the chapters of life. They are caught and pulled between two worlds - the old and the new, the comfortable and the frightening, the known and the unknown, the now and the not yet. It is like a room full of doors. Which one do you choose? Many want to rush ahead and just do something to remove the pain. At least I'm doing something. They are heeding the advice, Don't just sit there, do something! I advise people, on the other hand, Don't just do something, sit there! I counsel them to do some research, take some time, to pay attention to this experience. For most, their life hurts and they want to do something about it. A structured program offers a way to move forward. There are several important conditions for someone to enter courageously into transition. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.891
Threshold uncertainty score0.467

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.211
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it