Crafting a Purpose-Driven Career: Self and Systems

The workshop will help you shape your unique approach for work. We fuse personal, professional, and civic aspirations with Quaker values, weaving a purpose-driven narrative and understanding our context and systems. Explore diverse career paths, enhance adaptability, identify key environmental elements, and align with your life view. The workshop will help shape the interconnected world…

Workshop Description

The workshop will help you shape your unique approach for work. We fuse personal, professional, and civic aspirations with Quaker values, weaving a purpose-driven narrative and understanding our context and systems. Explore diverse career paths, enhance adaptability, identify key environmental elements, and align with your life view.

The workshop will help shape the interconnected world around us through our personal and professional and civic work. We will integrate personal narrative into a purpose-driven life, firmly rooted in the Quaker tenets.
We will help critically examine career paths that enhance adaptability and versatility, identify essential environmental elements to align with your work/life view, and determine the issues and impacts that hold significance. We will delve into developing a critical lens for personal exploration of meaning and aligning with unique career paths.

By the end of the workshop, you will achieve the following outcomes:

– Deepen your understanding of Quaker principles and how they can shape your life’s design.
– Create a Personal Mindmap that reflects your Quaker faith and the values that guide your choices.
– Articulate the spiritual value of your work and skills within the Quaker community and beyond.
– Build a network of like-minded individuals who share your Quaker values and are committed to supporting one another in both work and faith.

Day 1: Understanding Ourselves in our Current Context
Day 2: Mapping What Matters
Day 3: Boundary Setting and Re-imaging a Life of Meaning and Purpose
Day 4: Cohesion Across Our System
Day 5: A Place For More Space

Leader Experience

Keira has supported the Junior Gathering a workshop leader to co-coordinator, AYF co-coordinator, past workshop facilitator and FGC Gathering Clerk. They currently facilitated many of the Johns Hopkins life design and social impact programming.