Do you have to make a choice between professional success and a meaningful life? Many young people beginning their careers don’t even have the opportunities to ask this question. Meaningful Work is a new programme, produced in collaboration between LSE Faith Centre, LSE Careers, LSE LIFE and St Paul’s Institute to help you explore your values and how you can live them out in the workplace.
Register below for the opening and closing panel discussions, along with the bespoke workshops that will explore the themes of vocation, balance, creativity and purpose.
What is Meaningful Work?
Wedneday 5 October 2016, 18:30-20:00
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LJ
At our opening event an expert panel will discuss the nature of “meaningful work”. Is it possible to reconcile your values with the demanding profit-driven structures of modern professional life? Are some sectors more meaningful than others or does every career have the potential for meaningful work? How can our values and/or beliefs best inform our work and make a positive difference in the world?
Professor Richard Sennett, Centennial Professor of Sociology at the LSE
Tim Frost, Director of Cairn Capital
Dr Ruth Kosmin, Former Head of European Economics at HM Treasury
Chaired by Barbara Ridparth, Director of the St Paul’s Institute
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Workshops
Vocation
Monday 10 October 2016, 17:00-19:00
Workshop leader: Ruhana Ali
What is a sense of vocation or calling, and how can either drive meaning in work? What role does vocation play in personal growth and happiness?
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Balance
Monday 24 October 2016, 17:00-19:00
Workshop leader: Inez Freiin-Von-Weitershausen
What does it mean to have a healthy work/life balance? To what extent should the focus be on our own needs versus the needs of others, or those of wider society?
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Creativity
Tuesday 8 November 2016, 17:00-19:00
Workshop leader: Jeremy Higham
How can creativity affect both your work and your satisfaction with your work? How is creativity present in the workplace, in different professions and in different work styles?
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Purpose
Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:00-19:00
Workshop leader: Barbara Ridpath
How important is a sense of purpose to job satisfaction? Does work have to be of societal value to have purpose? What role does ambition play?
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Our Working Lives: Facing the Future
Monday 28 November 2016, 18:30-20:00
Crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral
To close the programme an expert panel will discuss the issues the programme has raised and look to the future. The only certainty in the world of work is that it will change dramatically over the course of our lives. What skills and attitudes do we need to adapt to whatever the future brings? How might the role of work in our lives change?
Fleur Bothwick OBE, EMEIA Director of Diversity & Inclusive Leadership, EY
Professor Nava Ashraf, Professor of Economics, LSE
Chaired by the Revd Canon Dr James Walters, LSE Chaplain and Senior Lecturer
More speakers to be announced soon.
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