Expressing self

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Expressing self

• Aquinas Things were made like God not only in
  being but also in acting. Whatever causes God
  assigns to certain effects, God gives them the
  power to produce those effects .. The dignity of
  causality is imparted even to creatures.

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Expressing self

• How do you contribute your unique (God-given)
  talents?
• Creativity Risk/Courage/Passion
• Achievement Private/ Public
• Excellence/Justice/Accomplishment
• Influencing Agency/Imprinting yourself

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Creativity - Releasing Potential

• Work too small for our spirits?
• our work deserves to go beyond the tame and out
  into the wilderness

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Maintaining the balance between being and doing

• The importance of being
• Intuition/Flow
• Reflection
• Mindfulness

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Reflection

• Reflectere To bend back implicates both self
  and the world
• Aristotle Central to discernment of truth and
  expression of good life
• Socrates The unexamined life is not worth living
• Excellence/Insights/Moral Behaviour/Self-Renewal/l
  earning from experience
• In relation to work mood/attitude/expectations,
  theories of use/defining moments
• Spirituality recognition of qualities in others

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Flow

• Csikiszentmihalyi
• Meaningful work is not clockwatching being
  bored dulled drifting attention wishing to be
  elsewhere BUT
• Joy
• Action and Awareness merge
• Loss of self-consciousness
• Transcendence of ego-boundaries
• Deep concentration
• Inwardly driven

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Mindfulness

• Being in the present/attentive/conscious
  living/maintaining an inner state of being
• Stress reduction - awareness of
  body/environment/moods etc.
• Paying attention to things we dont usually pay
  attention to
• Meaning of your work

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Exercise

• Body
• Thoughts
• Awareness
• Meaning