Description
Book SynopsisThe launch title in Sheed & Ward's new Spirit at Work series, Work with Meaning, Work with Joy is an honest, insightful, and challenging guide to working with meaning in any job. As a pioneer of the emerging spirituality and work movement, author Pat McHenry Sullivan has spent years interviewing thought leaders, studying trends in organizational development, writing articles, and consulting with individuals and businesses of all sizes. Here she brings together her vast hands-on experience and keen insights into a concise, helpful book that offers wisdom and inspiration as relevant to CEOs as they are to mailroom clerks and mid-level managers. An ecumenical book that respects and draws from several relgious traditions and spiritualities, Work with Meaning, Work with Joy revolutionizes traditional ways of conceiving of work and offers practical tools for finding your true vocation, bringing faith and integrity into the workplace, creating balance, and achieving worklife excellence. Filled with memorable stories and innovative ideas,Work with Meaning, Work with Joy also offers questions, resources, and ideas for further reading.
Trade ReviewAre you suffering from the workplace blues? If so, Pat McHenry Sullivan may have a solution for you. -- Tammy L. Carter * Orlando Sentinel *
A guide to reinvigorating your work life, brining faith and integrity into the workplace, and creating balance in your life. * St. Anthony Messenger *
Pat Sullivan asks you to engage in a deep inquiry that can lead to profound possibilities. She provides many tools that enable you to connect to your work, whatever it is, with your spiritual life. If you're unhappy at work, read this book! -- Stewart Levine, author of
The Book of Agreement and Getting to Resolution
Work with Meaning, Work with Joy is a refreshing guide and wonderfully rich overview of the spiritual renaissance taking place in workplaces around the world today. Pat Sullivan is to be congratulated on a marvelous achievement. -- John Renesch, business futurist, author of Getting to the Better Future, and editor of New Traditions in Business
Find yourself a quiet place at home or work, and read a little bit of this book every day. Take notes and underline the ideas that touch you. Then have courage and start to infuse your life and work with greater spirit and meaning each day, with Pat Sullivan as your guide. She's an expert with heart and wisdom. You can't ask for a better guide than that! -- Judith A. Neal, Ph.D., Executive Director, Association for Spirit at Work
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Discovering New Possibilities for Meaning and Joy at Work Chapter 2 Seeing Your Work as a Spiritual Journey Chapter 3 Creating and Using a Workplace Altar Chapter 4 Turning Stress and Burnout into Energy and Insight Chapter 5 Finding Wisdom for Work from Many Traditions Chapter 6 Tapping Your Own Wisdom throughout the Workday Chapter 7 Working with Integrity as Your Bottom Line Chapter 8 Creating Spiritual Community at and for Your Work Chapter 9 Envisioning and Re-Visioning Your Work and Your Profession Chapter 10 Resources for Meaningful and Satisfying Work
