The changing landscape of work and careers is attributed to constant world changes.
It requires employeesâ skill regarding self-management as a locus of responsibility with
pro-activity and an openness for new experiences. The population explosion of middle
career adults and increasing knowledge regarding the middle career development
have led to the identification of the middle life stage as a time worthy of study.
In the study the metaphor of opera plays an important role. The research aims at
becoming libretto (operatext) itself, with the accompaniment and application of
metaphoric meaning where the structural exposition is embodied in the overture, acts
and finale.
This study is at home in the epistemological and methodological development of a
broad and interdisciplinary dialogue, where various voices in the form of different
domains converse in order to establish an integrated whole. An interdisciplinary
dialogue deals with the attempt to convene a variety of disciplines of reasoning
strategies with wide frames of reference, different epistemological catalysts and
experimental resources.
Four domains in this research study are given an opportunity to speak in an attempt to
sensibly be held accountable regarding the challenge of spiritual life coaching as
facilitating process would succeed in promoting middle career development. Although
the four voices form the main characters, accents and nuances which have been
embodied in additional characters representative of co-researchers and the librettis,
are also heard.
The first domain entails practical theology that does not only want to focus on manâs
religious actions, but involves communication. It wants to establish a meeting between
God and man, as well as communication with others to create space for God in this
world outside the circumference of the church where public importance is underlined
with a directedness to public wisdom and social transformation. The pragmatic
facilitates a reflective dialogue and the construction of models which are applied by practical theology to provide guidance to individuals and communities regarding the
method of activities or practices.
Middle career development supposes the second domain and is regarded as a reevaluation
and questioning time regarding personal, professional and spiritual
development. The middle career entails the age group 40 to 55 years. This phase is
characterized by two major variables, namely the confrontation of middle year
transition and the retaining of productivity levels.
Spirituality in the workplace currently enjoys wide corporative interest due to a
worldwide movement which has brought about an emphasis shift to work as
meaningful and sensible. It supposes the third dialogue partner representative of the
domain, namely spiritual intelligence. The search for meaning and significance is
brought into relation with spirituality due to the latter being described and understood
as a type of intelligence.
Life coaching, as the fourth domain, is multidisciplinary by nature. It is considered to
be an eclectic approach where various skills and techniques are borrowed from other
disciplines. Life coaching is considered to be a collaborative, solution-focused, resultsorientated
and systematic process during which the coach facilitates the increase of
life experience and goal achievement in the personal and professional life of the client.
These four domains have united to an integrated whole where all participating parties
could be heard in unison in the supposed interdisciplinary dialogue. The study
reaches a climax in the agreeing illumination that spiritual life coaching as facilitating
process can promote middle career development.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ufs/oai:etd.uovs.ac.za:etd-10042011-121840 |
| Date | 04 October 2011 |
| Creators | Fourie, Magdalena Cornelia |
| Contributors | Prof J-A van den Berg |
| Publisher | University of the Free State |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en-uk |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.uovs.ac.za//theses/available/etd-10042011-121840/restricted/ |
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