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  • In our experience, it is common in career counseling to hear clients talk about wanting to discover and live out a calling. The term calling means different things to different people. Typically, calling refers to a personally or socially meaningful engagement with one’s work, sometimes linked to one’s religious or spiritual perspective, sometimes to a sense of passion or giftedness, and sometimes to a deeply held set of values for making a difference or leaving a legacy. Whatever the particulars, the concept seems very powerful when expressed through a client’s tone of despair, longing, or hope. We have worked with many objectively successful but subjectively miserable middle-career adult clients who have fantasized about what it would be like to experience work as a calling rather than as an obligation to which they felt chained (sometimes with “golden handcuffs”). Interactions with clients such as these are part of what has driven us to devote much of our careers to better understanding what it means to have a calling, the difference it makes (in work and life) for people who approach work as a calling, and strategies for discerning and living out a calling. Although much has yet to be learned, what is clear from research is that a sense of calling provides, for many people, a key pathway for experiencing work and life as meaningful and satisfying (e.g., Dik, Eldridge, Steger, & Duffy, 2012; Dik, Sargent, & Steger, 2008; Duffy & Sedlacek, 2007; Hirschi, 2012). How, then, might career development practitioners help clients discern and live out a calling? In this chapter, we offer some suggestions that address this question. We begin with an overview of the historical and conceptual context for the recent surge of scholarly interest in calling. We then summarize the rapidly accumulating research on the construct and explore implications for career interventions that target discerning and living out a calling. To close the chapter, we use a case study to demonstrate the use of calling in career counseling. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

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