The IAM Career Desires Navigator is an essential guidance instrument to orient the GPS for your career journey. Includes detailed instructions and a step-by-step process to navigate to clarity on your career focus.
The IAM Career Desires Navigator …
clarifies your career likes and dislikes
profiles your career strengths and weak points
pinpoints key areas in which your career may have led you rather than you leading your career
provides key insight into the illusive “soul journey”
Purchase access to the Career Desires Navigator tool here.
The Drama Triangle is a powerful tool to help you shift from experiences of drama to experiences of being at your best, especially when navigating some of the very predictable phases that the Drama Triangle describes.
The “Values List” exercise provides a way for you to clarify your values by sorting. You’ll need a stack of 3X5 cards or small slips of paper to use during the exercise. You need approximately 10-20 cards.
Decision-Making Tools includes four tools, each providing a different way to approach the process of choosing. We invite you to see which method works best for you!
The “Values In Action” exercise gives you guidance in using the online tool developed by Marty Seligman and the Authentic Happiness folks. This tool is another way to identify your values.
Use the Results Story Tool to explain the relationship between your Essential Best and results. Make modifications to this tool as they suit you and others.
Use the Essence Map to help determine where you are focusing your attention: on the best of yourself and others or on the drama which is not who you really are. Use this map freely and widely!
I want to add the following video to your access to the Essence Map:
After using the Essence Map for years with folks, the biggest challenge I have is conveying the beautiful nature of Drama. My favorite color is purple; I made Drama purple for a reason. It IS the color of royalty after all.
In this TED talk video Brene Brown talks about the power of vulnerability. Vulnerability, says Brown, ‘underpins shame’. The source of shame, says Brown, is the fear of disconnection. Vulnerability is powerful because in being vulnerable, we allow ourselves to be seen and thus we can allow connection to happen.
The Essence Map provides a way for us to frame shame and fear in the context of our true, abundant, capable natures. Without the context of our Essential Best, it’s tough to talk about fear and shame, which I describe generally as Drama, without getting lost in it.
I’ll be honest and say that I have gotten completely lost in my Drama. I’m talking about the dark night of the soul; Brene Brown describes it as having a breakdown. Sometimes when we have a history of resisting feeling – becoming vulnerable creates more Drama before things get moving. Having a sense of our Essential Best, our connection to our soul, can be our guiding light when things seem the most confusing and bleak.
You could say that Drama, as in fear and shame, are what happen when we become disconnected from our real selves, which then makes it very difficult for us to connect with others. Our real selves are worthy, beautiful, and wonderful, while our Drama selves feel unworthy.
But it’s when we have the courage to be vulnerable about our whole self – both our Drama and our Essential Best – that we discover more about who we really are, our abundant and authentic selves, and who we are becoming.
I like to say that our humanity is our greatest gift and I really mean that. Our humanity, especially when we forget our essence, is what allows us to see both our Essential Best and the disconnection of Drama, and in the process become more and more whole – infinitely. This process of healing and becoming more whole is what happens when we are vulnerable about our Drama, while learning more and more about our true essential selves.
I hope you find the Essence Map, and this TED video useful. Please let us know how it’s going in the comments below.
The IAM Career Alignment Assessment is an essential guidance instrument to align your career path with your soul journey.
