Finding Your Foundations


You’re invited to dig in with Dream & Scheme:

  • go deep on the foundational assumptions that underly our approach to vocational discernment

  • work through a guided practice helping you identify and articulate your own foundational assumptions - what do you believe about the world, and how does that shape your approach to life?

  • find and wrestle with the idea underneath the idea in collaborative community space

  • connect your foundational assumptions to your sense of purpose, your discernment of vocation, and your resilience for life in this challenging world

Registration deadline June 28

What is vocational discernment?

However you name the sacred in the world, we believe that sacredness is calling you into what is better. Vocational discernment is the practice of intentionally listening for that call and moving accordingly. Whether it’s God, big love, or something else, we believe that the divine in the world gives us all gifts and purposes — and that we can uncover that sense of purpose (and keep uncovering it, as we live our lives), if we train ourselves to listen. Your sense of purpose is bigger than your job — it might align with your paid work and it might be something you follow outside of work hours.

We believe that we can honor ourselves and the next yes we’re called to. We know that we also must navigate with critical consciousness the web of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and extractive capitalism that surrounds us while we do things like pay our bills and buy groceries. We believe in community care and interdependence as ways out of what the world wants us to believe is inevitable, and that even as we discern vocation individually we can work for the liberation of all.