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How to better understand yourself and find more meaningful work
Could 2023 be the year that you finally sort out your worklife?
That is the hope of James O’Halloran, who is organising a four-day retreat in January with the aim of better understanding yourself and how to find more meaningful work.
The retreat is taking place on an off-grid farming community in south Wales which James describes as “a hidden utopia from modern life”.
James, who lives in Bedminster and is the founder of Sweet Work, is an innovators coach who works primarily with tech founders but also with innovative and entrepreneurial individuals from across various business sectors.
On a recent morning, he was impossible to miss walking down North Street wearing a lime green and yellow jacket.
Irish-born James quit his corporate job in London in order to go into executive coaching, a new career which he does while not climbing or exploring.
The retreat is an extension of James’ coaching. Within workshops, participants will be expertly guided through a process “that will reveal and celebrate strengths, values, creative process, passions, needs, vision and the actions to get you there”.
“For years I have been trying to bring what I do one-to-one to more people,” James tells Bristol24/7.
“My clients are often already doing really well in their careers. What I am really aspiring to do is to work with more people who have not yet reached that stage. I want to go back up stream and find the people who are still figuring it out.”
James says that many people do not realise that work can be both enjoyable and beneficial.
The upcoming retreat is for people who might be dissatisfied with their current job, who might want to “disrupt what they are doing and maybe side-stepping into a different career, or transforming the environment that they work in because it doesn’t really suit them”.
“The shift and changes that they need to take are quite daunting to be aware of. To know what to do can be quite isolating and it’s such an individual thing. Understanding yourself is not easy.”
The Find Your Way to Meaningful Work retreat takes place from January 13-16. For more information, visit dandelion.earth/events/6363ac4691bcd900105359fb
Main photo: Martin Booth
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