How does completing my writing certificate affect my career direction? 23 unchanging

[Magnus]

Hi All,

Curious what your thoughts are on the meaning of 23 unchanging to the question "How does completing my writing certificate affect my career direction?"

I am thinking it implies a twist or change in the path from the other academic studies I've pursued relating to therapy and/or social work... would that be likely right?

 

[anemos]

almost a literal answer , based on the Image commentaries

...... Thus those above can ensure their positionOnly by giving generously to those below.

The mountain rests on the earth. When it is steep and narrow, lacking a broad base, it must topple over. Its position is strong only when it rises out of the earth broad and great, not proud and steep. So likewise those who rule rest on the broad foundation of the people. They too should be generous and benevolent, like the earth that carries all. Then they will make their position as secure as a mountain is in its tranquillity.

 

[Magnus]

So the writing certificate gives a broader base/foundation from which to give generously to those below and succeed more?

 

[anemos]

Maybe. Not very sure what that certificate is , but if its about enhancing your writing skills then I can't see how will interfere with your other studies( ???? )

... well it will take some available time but writing is about narratives and narratives, the way we contract them, the words we use, what we need to express is not irrelevant with counseling or social work. Writing , in some setting is incorporated in the therapeutic process.

The background details are limited and giving an interpretation is not easy from where I stand. Don't take what I say as an answer .. I just share impressions.

I guess you like writing so maybe the combination of those two "set of skills" will support each other. 23, can also mean "strip it" but I don't know the reasons Yi would give such an advice, as I don't know your circumstances.

 

[Trojina]

Hi All,

Curious what your thoughts are on the meaning of 23 unchanging to the question "How does completing my writing certificate affect my career direction?"

I am thinking it implies a twist or change in the path from the other academic studies I've pursued relating to therapy and/or social work... would that be likely right?

The problem with this question is it carries the assumption that completing your writing certificate has an effect on your career direction. What if it doesn't ?

I've hesitated to answer since I doubt it's what you want to hear but I don't think the writing certificate has an impact....it's stripped away, it doesn't go anywhere towards your career direction. You may need to stop seeing the certificate as connected to your career direction.

ps don't shoot me for not being 'positive' , this is what I see in your answer.

 

[anemos]

You may need to stop seeing the certificate as connected to your career direction.

ps don't shoot me for not being 'positive' , this is what I see in your answer.

Bang Bang !!! kidding.

you make an interesting point. Like it !!!

 

[Magnus]

I have no weapon, no worries Trojina!

Thanks Anemos!

Maybe the writing certificate has no effect. After completing studies related to psychotherapy, I started questioning that career path and thought I'd try my hand at a professional writing certificate after also applying to a program which would have connected me with a writing mentor to work on a book or writing of some sort to lead toward making it publishable. I've been unclear of where exactly I'm headed or where I'm supposed to go (if any sense of fate or planned destination exists). So since I asked about the writing certificate and my career, I was hoping to find out what role it has for my career, and it sounds like maybe it doesn't have that huge of a role but perhaps could support my current career endeavors of counselling/psychotherapy, or come into play after a period of doing said occupation... Are there other question(s) that might be more appropriate for me to pose? I'm not sure based on the feedback here if I posed the most effective question, though maybe I did and just didn't know it.

 

[Magnus]

I have no weapon, no worries Trojina!

Thanks Anemos!

Maybe the writing certificate has no effect. After completing studies related to psychotherapy, I started questioning that career path and thought I'd try my hand at a professional writing certificate after also applying to a program which would have connected me with a writing mentor to work on a book or writing of some sort to lead toward making it publishable. I've been unclear of where exactly I'm headed or where I'm supposed to go (if any sense of fate or planned destination exists). So since I asked about the writing certificate and my career, I was hoping to find out what role it has for my career, and it sounds like maybe it doesn't have that huge of a role but perhaps could support my current career endeavors of counselling/psychotherapy, or come into play after a period of doing said occupation... Are there other question(s) that might be more appropriate for me to pose? I'm not sure based on the feedback here if I posed the most effective question, though maybe I did and just didn't know it.

 

[anemos]

Ah, I see you're thinking of changing career.

Your reading brought in mind something had read at Oliver Sack's book," the Man you mistook his wife for a hat" and found it an interesting thought and, maybe, influenceδ from that said what I said earlier. I don't know from which paradigm your practice is informed so I can't form an opinion but I don't see either as totally irrelevant the writing courses.

Classical fables have archetypal figures—heroes, victims, martyrs, warriors. Neurological patients
are all of these—and in the strange tales told here they are also something more. How, in these mythical
or metaphorical terms, shall we categorize the ‘lost Mariner’, or the other strange figures in this book?
We may say they are travelers to unimaginable lands—lands of which otherwise we should have no idea
or conception. This is why their lives and journeys seem to me to have a quality of the fabulous, why I
have used Osier’s Arabian Nights image as an epigraph, and why I feel compelled to speak of tales and
fables as well as cases. The scientific and the romantic in such realms cry out to come together—Luria
liked to speak here of ‘romantic science’. They come together at the intersection of fact and fable, the
intersection which characterizes (as it did in my book Awakenings) the lives of the patients here
narrated.
~Oliver Sack's

best wishes