Peter G. White is the founder of Vocatio Consulting, an organization that seeks to bring ‘life to life’ by aiding individuals and groups in the discovery and employment of their vocation, or ‘life-calling’. Pete’s chief interest in whichever context he finds himself, is to collaborate along these lines by helping people to ‘become themselves’ by learning to inhabit their vocation as a living craft. Pete is a grateful husband and is a father to three wonderful children with his wife, Kandy. Pete’s hope is to help see the character of Christ realized in the places that are most precious to us all, whether spousal, familial, social, educational or societal. He lives in Abbotsford, British Columbia, where he has operated a private psychotherapeutic practice for 17-years under the banner of Vocatio. He offers courses to executive groups and consulting services to organizations who require content expertise in the territories of psychology and/or Christian spiritual formation. Pete deeply loves the Church and is a grateful guide and accompanier to parishioners and Christian leaders across a number of associated domains.

Pete regards himself as an apprentice of Jesus Christ. You can receive updates on future developments from Pete at petergwhite.com.

DEFINITIONS

Empiricism - the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience.

Unmoored - insecure, confused, or lacking contact with reality.

Epistemology - the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion.

00:00 The lay of the land

07:54 What is the self?

15:55 The consequence of separating virtue from education

23:15 The shift of formation in universities

27:45 When moral education becomes extracurricular

30:02 Where Freud lacks

33:19 The self becomes God in our culture today

36:00 God hates manipulation

39:00 The problems in the field of psychology

41:03 The need for worldview

43:20 The falsehood of being an expert in your own experience

47:05 Vocation, personality, and character

52:19 The central interest of Christ

“People are worth so much more than that. They are owed our honest engagement with them. But we have a culture that is built on dishonest engagement.” - Pete White

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