Vocation Resources
Discernment Tools:
A. Retreats:
B. Career Assessment:
Vocation Literature:
Books available for checkout in Sobrato 105:
1. In Good Company: The Fast Track from the Corporate World to Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience. Jim Martin
2. The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure, and Vacations. Al Gini
3. Man’s Search for Meaning. Viktor Frankl
4. Business as a Calling: Work & the Examined Life. Michael Novak
5. Let Your Life Speak. Parker Palmer
6. Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in your Twenties. Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
7. Callings; Finding and Following an Authentic Life. Gregg Levoy
8. Getting a Life: How to Find Your True Vocation. Renee LaReau
9. The Call: Discovering Why You Are Here. Oriah Mountain Dreamer
10. Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life. Douglas Schuurman
11. Whistle While You Work: Heeding Your Life's Calling. Richard Leider
12. The Courage To Teach. Parker Palmer
13. A Stay Against Confusion. Ron Hansen
14. Big Questions, Worthy Dreams. Sharon Parks
15. Directions for Communication. Willi Lambert
16. What Should I Do With My Life? Po Bronson
17. The Invitation. Oriah Mountain Dreamer
18. Finite and Infinite Goods. Robert Merrihew Adams
19. Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition. Brian J. Mahan
20. A Lesson Before Dying. Ernest J. Gaines
21. The Faithful Gardener. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
22. The Dance: Moving to the Rhythms of Your True Self. Oriah Mountain Dreamer
23. Healing the Purpose of Your Life. Dennis Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, Matthew Linn
24. The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albolm
25. Letters to a Young Poet. Rainer Maria Rilke
26. The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho
Other recommended books:
1. How to Find your Mission in Life. Richard Nelson Bolles
2. What Color is Your Parachute? Richard Nelson Bolles
3. Do What You Are; Discover the Perfect Career for you Through Secrets of Personality Type. Paul Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger (available at The Career Center)
4. Discover What You’re Best At. Linda Gale (available at The Career Center)
5. Hand Me Down Dreams; How Families Influence Our Career Paths and How We Can Reclaim Them. Mary Jacobsen (available at The Career Center)
6. Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet. Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon 7. Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World. Laurent Daloz, Cheryl Keen, James Keen, Sharon Daloz Parks
8. Beleaguered Rulers: The Public Obligation of the Professional. William May
9. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
10. Work: Its Meaning and its Limits. Gilbert Meilaender
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