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By Ann Kaplan Mulholland

“Just because I study spirituality-because I talk about it-that does not mean I am a good person, but it doesn't mean I am not either.”


Brains be damned

So you’re a bona fide smartypants with an impressive triple-digit IQ and a wall lined with the framed documents that make it official. So what. Doesn’t mean you’re happy with your job. Doesn’t mean you tear off the covers every morning and bound into joy. But if you happen to be blessed with a good…


Journey to the Centre

Identifying a connection between a labyrinth and the modern workplace culture is no stretch. That many of us spend our productive years trying to find our way—professionally to say nothing of personally—is a matter of simple fact. Less obvious are the benefits to be drawn from applying the labyrinthine model to an initiative of on-the-job…


Workplace spirituality and why it shouldn’t freak you out

Mention the concept of spirituality around the office and take cover. In that order. So on guard is the average corporate soul against even a whiff of religious partisanship in the workplace that his knee-jerk response is defensive, suspect—even offended. Instinctively, he races to preserve the individual sanctity of church and state, armed for battle…


The sense of sensemaking

Ah me, but the world is a complicated place. Every day, our senses are bombarded with new information, additional layers of complexity, fresh chaos. A system for navigating it is critical to a successful, serene existence in this universe. A thousand attempts have been made over the years to describe this uniquely human imperative, this…