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Item Open Access Middelloopbaan-ontwikkeling deur spirituele lewenstylafrigting(University of the Free State, 2010-11) Fourie, Magdalena Cornelia; Van den Berg, Jan-AlbertEnglish: The changing landscape of work and careers is attributed to constant world changes. It requires employees’ skill regarding self-management as a locus of responsibility with pro-activity and an openness for new experiences. The population explosion of middle career adults and increasing knowledge regarding the middle career development have led to the identification of the middle life stage as a time worthy of study. In the study the metaphor of opera plays an important role. The research aims at becoming libretto (operatext) itself, with the accompaniment and application of metaphoric meaning where the structural exposition is embodied in the overture, acts and finale. This study is at home in the epistemological and methodological development of a broad and interdisciplinary dialogue, where various voices in the form of different domains converse in order to establish an integrated whole. An interdisciplinary dialogue deals with the attempt to convene a variety of disciplines of reasoning strategies with wide frames of reference, different epistemological catalysts and experimental resources. Four domains in this research study are given an opportunity to speak in an attempt to sensibly be held accountable regarding the challenge of spiritual life coaching as facilitating process would succeed in promoting middle career development. Although the four voices form the main characters, accents and nuances which have been embodied in additional characters representative of co-researchers and the librettis, are also heard. The first domain entails practical theology that does not only want to focus on man’s religious actions, but involves communication. It wants to establish a meeting between God and man, as well as communication with others to create space for God in this world outside the circumference of the church where public importance is underlined with a directedness to public wisdom and social transformation. The pragmatic facilitates a reflective dialogue and the construction of models which are applied by practical theology to provide guidance to individuals and communities regarding the method of activities or practices. Middle career development supposes the second domain and is regarded as a reevaluation and questioning time regarding personal, professional and spiritual development. The middle career entails the age group 40 to 55 years. This phase is characterized by two major variables, namely the confrontation of middle year transition and the retaining of productivity levels. Spirituality in the workplace currently enjoys wide corporative interest due to a worldwide movement which has brought about an emphasis shift to work as meaningful and sensible. It supposes the third dialogue partner representative of the domain, namely spiritual intelligence. The search for meaning and significance is brought into relation with spirituality due to the latter being described and understood as a type of intelligence. Life coaching, as the fourth domain, is multidisciplinary by nature. It is considered to be an eclectic approach where various skills and techniques are borrowed from other disciplines. Life coaching is considered to be a collaborative, solution-focused, resultsorientated and systematic process during which the coach facilitates the increase of life experience and goal achievement in the personal and professional life of the client. These four domains have united to an integrated whole where all participating parties could be heard in unison in the supposed interdisciplinary dialogue. The study reaches a climax in the agreeing illumination that spiritual life coaching as facilitating process can promote middle career development.