What is Your/Our Divine Vocation?
Transformation happens when our learning is infused with intentional processes of becoming.
Each week, following an ICN article, we offer invitations into deeper becoming—spiritual practices, ways of engagement, and opportunities for life integration. This rhythm seeks to intensify our mystical practice, deepen our embodied engagement, and call forth greater transformation in ourselves, our communities, and the world—the I, the We, and the All.
IF YOU MISSED IT LAST WEEK, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO FIRST READ THE ARTICLE INFORMING THESE PROCESSES: “Our Divine Vocation”
We invite you to consciously and intentionally engage in the following processes for your personal lives, WeSpace groups or other spiritual communities, and global participation.
Saying Yes to the Call
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Walking Further Along the Path of Our Divine Vocation
In this series, we have been exploring our call to WeCreating, which is the invitation to step more fully into our participation in our divine nature—to be creators together of the future in loving evolution. This is also what we are calling the next phase of growth for ICN, moving from the Founding Stage to the WeCreating Stage.
The energy and capacity for this comes from our divine vitality, which is our essential life force enlivening us with the love that is the deep force of evolution. Our motivation and will then springs from a greater calling than our own desires, as we are filled with divine inspiration for sacred possibilities. Our divine vocation is then discerned, inhabited, and integrated more into our life as we better understand who we truly are and how that expresses and speaks from our deepest being. We then infuse our areas of living out our divine vocation with greater vitality and inspiration, as well as discovering and cultivating new and evolving pathways and channels of expression and creativity. All of this is not just a personal process, but inflows from, interflows amongst, and outflows into divine communion—the mystical body of Christ alive in the world today.
This is a vital calling for us in the world today. Whether as integral, mystical, Christian, spiritual, and beyond, we all will need to take up our divine vocation to see the future become what it must, not just for survival but a thriving, beautiful, loving reality. This is no utopia, but an ongoing, evolving joining of heaven and earth, here and now, and in the days to come.
We are being invited to be the ones to take up this call.
Over the next six months, we’ll be seeding and inviting ways of becoming and being that call us to inhabit more fully our divine vocation. This will come to focus even more throughout advent, leading into an intentional, dedicated process that will begin with a gathering around Epiphany, 2026.
This is a major calling and mission emerging in ICN, to be intentional and focused on the ways we can come to further embrace our calling in the world in the deepest and truest sense, personally and communally.
You are not just invited, you are essential. You are being asked to take up the call. It will take all of us.
Will you join us?
Divine Vocation Mandala
May this gentle mandala be a companion to last week’s article and to us as we more fully inhabit our divine vocation!
“From who we truly are, in our unique, continually emerging personhood and in our dynamic, inspiring communion, we move consciously into the ongoing discovery and discernment of our divine vocation—arising from the invocations of our awakened spirit consciousness within and allured by evocative possibilities and pathways that call to our soul, that sing the song of our communal chorus in new and evolving ways.”
Let the whole world sing!
An Initial Survey of Evolving Archetypes of Divine Vocation
In seeking to discover, recognize, and name our divine vocation, we can engage in a process of personal and collective discernment.
First and foremost, it will be rooted in who we truly are, in our unique essence and communal interbeing. We feel and experience this from deep within, arising from our unified divine source, taking shape in the sacred qualities and core aspects of our soul. To further welcome, call forth, and inhabit this energy and essence is to invoke this from within.
We can also find forms, shapes, and pathways from the outside. These are the evocations that call to us with resonance. Their sound reverberates with what we know is true within, and can give us the tone or harmony we may be looking for inside us.
Rather than specific jobs, roles, or functions, our divine vocation will more likely find evocative resonance with more archetypal patterns and shapes. There are many classical archetypes, as well as newer expressions of evolving forms. Here, we’ll start by sharing three different sources for you to survey and explore what might resonate or call to you to consider as a helpful evocation.
Even if you feel you already have a sense of who you truly are in this way, perhaps some of these archetypes can evoke evolutions and integrations to further support your understanding and enaction.
A new podcast series by Annie Browning, The Great Unraveling and the Greater Emergence: Leadership for a World in Transition, offers a six-episode journey through five leadership archetypes. Grounded in science, wisdom traditions, consciousness theory, and practical tools, this offering may help you name and nurture the movements arising in you at this time.
▶️ Listen to the opening episode here
The five archetypes explored include:
Bridge Makers – Translators between polarized worlds who preserve truth without dilution
Threshold Guides – Facilitators of meaningful transitions when old maps no longer serve
Pathway Pioneers – Seers of emergent possibilities beyond current paradigms
Loving Disrupters – System-shifters who lead with fierce love rather than force
Hidden Architects – Builders of the unseen infrastructure for our emerging future
If these archetypes speak to you, we invite you to deepen your exploration through this Divine Vocation Discovery Aid, which links scripture and biblical figures to each archetype.
The folks at the Sacred Design Lab published a report several years ago called The Care of Souls. They identified seven essential roles for nurturing spiritual and communal well-being in today’s world. Together, they form a holistic ecosystem of care that supports both individual and collective transformation.
o Gatherer – Brings people together to create spaces of belonging and connection.
o Seer – Discerns deeper meaning and emerging spiritual insight.
o Maker – Crafts rituals, symbols, and creative expressions of shared values.
o Healer – Tends to emotional and spiritual wounds with compassion and care.
o Venturer – Experiments with new forms of community, practice, and leadership.
o Steward – Manages resources and structures to sustain communal life.
o Elder – Offers wisdom, perspective, and guidance rooted in experience.
If you feel so drawn, you can read the full report here.
Several years ago, we shared a series of articles on The Loving Evolution of Christianity and the World. This series focused on evolving systems and microsystem alternatives, and part five offered this diagram resource of changemaker roles:
The link to the original source is broken now, so rather than seeking to learn more about any of these roles by seeking more information, if a descriptor resonates, simply let it evoke a spark to explore more within. To see more of the context in which the graphic was original shared, you can read the full article here.
These archetypes, classifications, and roles can serve as an initial spark of discovery.
Perhaps one or two stood out to you that you feel drawn to explore further?
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