Inner work for a career transition has a working structure. Six weeks of weekly written practice, one Berufung worksheet per week, plus a short Friday review. The structure is what separates inner work from drift.
The six-week practice.
Week one — Labyrinth
Name why you are stuck. Write the chronology — what happened, when, in what order. Twenty minutes a day for five days. By week's end you have, in writing, the structural account of how you got here. Most people skip this and never recover the time.
Week two — Eye
See the situation as it is. Separate environment problems from vocation problems. Two columns: depleting work that is concentrated (environment) versus depleting work that is diffuse (vocation). The pattern that emerges decides the rest of the practice.
Week three — Hands (energy ledger)
Two weeks of tracking, starting this week. End of each day, write the single piece of work that energised you and the single piece that depleted you. Do not analyse during the fortnight; just collect. The pattern that emerges in the second week is the data the worksheets after this point are built on.
Week four — Scale
Audit your top-stated values. For each one, ask: where did this come from? Did I choose it, or was it handed to me? The naming of inherited values is the central inner-work practice of the six weeks. Most people discover at least one of their top five isn't actually theirs.
Week five — Compass
Write the one-sentence direction. "I am for X, by doing Y, for Z." Three to five drafts across the week. The final sentence is what you can defend at a dinner party. People who skip this week have done the inner work and not benefited from it.
Week six — Anchor
Name what you will not trade for the new direction. Three to five non-negotiables, written. The list is what protects the next decade from the costs of the last one. The Doorway that opens after this is taken on the first small move — the practice that begins immediately after week six.
What to do next
Six weeks is the practice. The Friday review — twenty minutes, written — is what holds it together. By the end, you have six written artefacts most people never produce. The free introduction walks into the first week. The worksheets are the rest.
The full method — and the four printable worksheets that walk you through it — is laid out in Berufung. The reading takes a weekend; the work itself takes most readers two to four weeks. The free introduction is the opening chapter in full.