Kert
Title: Magical Tour Guide
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Chinese Sign: Wood Snake
Location: Chicago, IL
About Me:
Welcome to Whitehart Enterprises®. My name is Kert Hubin and I founded Whitehart Enterprises® in 2006 with the belief that good work is love made visible.
Whitehart Work® is about discovery of the most meaningful kind. It is about developing leadership skills in the most authentic way. If you are looking to make a change in your career, take on a leadership position, improve your interpersonal and business communication skills, get more fulfillment out of life, explore being more fully yourself in an empowered way… if you believe that when people go to work they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home, then Whitehart Work® is for you.
In ancient European traditions, the white stag (or white hart) was the numinous animal totem that symbolized the quest. In the context of Whitehart Work®, the stag invites us on a quest to move beyond our perceived limitations and grow as human beings. The stag is the gatekeeper, so to speak, to one's own hero's journey.
Whitehart Work® is anchored in the Buddhist notion of “Right Livelihood”. It is one part of the eightfold path to enlightenment (the middle way), the other seven being:
1. Right Thought,
2. Right Mindfulness,
3. Right Understanding,
4. Right Speech,
5. Right Concentration,
6. Right Action, and
7. Right Effort.
Marti Beddoe, founder of Right Livelyhoods, detailed how each step of the eightfold path can be related to working life.
“Right Livelihood means to avoid any life that brings shame. It embodies the other seven steps along the eightfold path to enlightenment: Right Thought involves love and devotion through work. Right Mindfulness means consciously choosing your path and your work. Right Understanding evolves from consciously choosing work that is the best for ourselves and having knowledge of our values. Right Speech implies compassion relating to others through our work. Right Concentration means doing work with care and intense awareness and love. Right Action implies doing your work and having no attachment to the results. Right Effort is about choosing work you can do a whole life, keeping yourself in a state of constant learning and beginner's mind. The bottom line is this: work that embodies love, devotion, and service is as much an attitude as the actions we take.”
I couldn't have said it any better myself.
Getting where I am today in my work, in my relationships, and in my life in general has required numerous journeys into the unknown, usually without a guide, suspecting on some level that curiosity (mixed with awe, humility and hope) would bring me to the other side safe and sound. After repeated experiences of this, I realize that for me, authentic adulthood is in part about “getting it,” that these hero's journeys are actually good things, that I ALWAYS emerge on the other side not only safe and sound, but IMMENSELY more powerful. Every time I complete another journey I look back on where I used to be and realize that the new territory in front of me is much more vibrant, richer, juicier, intriguing, exciting… And the curious thing is that I always end up right back where I started, so the territory itself never changes.
What changes is the way I see it.
Sometimes we feel like the proverbial snake, ready to shed our skin. It's an anxious place to be, full of anxiety and fidgety impatience. Once we've grown enough to shed that old skin, we see our world through different, clearer eyes. And the more skin I shed, the more insight I have into Marti Beddoe's words.
Life takes on a poetic quality when I reside in the place where spirituality, work, art, compassion, evolution and justice cross paths. Let's call it “The Sacred Ground of Vocation”. It takes some searching to find the exact spot, but it's there. Getting to that place has been the greatest joy of my life. Remaining there has been my greatest challenge.
Getting to that Sacred Ground of Vocation requires courage, curiosity, resourcefulness, creativity, perspicacity, patience and loving kindness. In short, it requires a hero's journey. My conversations with people about their journeys are infinitely satisfying. Training others to have these conversations with people is one of the richest experiences of my life.
The philosopher Sam Keen once said,
“There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive… We have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have a sense of legitimate worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.”
If you would like to keep the question alive with me, please call me at (773) 509-6365.
You can also reach me at whitehartenterprises@gmail.com.
If you'd like to work with me in person or by phone and you came across me on Gaia, you'll be able to take advantage of my amazing Gaia Cohort Discount!
Keep the questions alive!
Be well.
Kert
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