The Chaos Theory of Careers by Pryor Robert;Bright Jim;

Author:Pryor, Robert;Bright, Jim;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2011-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Pryor and Bright (2009) have identified how the notion of archetypal plots can be used within the CTC. While the seven archetypal plots cannot be directly equated with any one of the CTC attractors, identifying the plots underlying individuals’ stories and the attractors they represent provides new insights into the nature of such counseling clients’ difficulties. In addition, these insights can provide alternative strategies for choosing new stories that will orient the person toward open systems thinking and away from unrealistic expectations about human knowledge and control. The counseling application of this is to help individuals to question the plot that they have been telling themselves as the story of their career and to provide alternative plots as new ways to perceive their careers, and in the process new possibilities for how to move forward.

For example, counseling clients who have recently lost their jobs in an organizational takeover often come to career counselors with “Tragedy” as the dominant plot by which they understand their recent experience. This may block their capacity to see new opportunities. However, if they can be assisted to see this in terms, for example, of “Overcoming the Monster” this would allow them to see that unemployment is a challenge to be met rather than a fate to be helplessly acceded to.

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