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Date: 07 December 2005 05:35:12
A family situation has kept the hermit in his cave this last month. Thanks to Miss Lisa for enquiring how I was going.. I really appreciate the supportive comments from fellow wibloggers.
Emerging again, wiping the dust out of my eyes, I'm hoping to start where I left off....I mentioned a talk I led at my church camp a couple of months ago on “workplace spirituality” and unordered asked me to tell a bit more about it.
This scared me at first, as talking to the world is a bit different to talking in a hut in the bush to a group of 25-30 people I know pretty well. Anyway I rustled up my scribbled notes and have plucked up the courage...so here goes...
Part 1. (intro)
I have two educational qualifications. When studying, one subject that I really struggled with was “Business Administration” (in fact I failed it twice) I found it just totally uninteresting. As things turned out..for the last 25 years I have run my own business and Business Admin is probably the subject from my 5 years tertiary education that I have needed to draw on most. (Oh why didn't I pay attention?)
I mentioned this to highlight that I do not feel really qualified to speak about “the workplace” and as a message of “hang in there” to the current students present who were doing subjects they find a tad boring.
Over the years of my business life I have completed many courses on various aspects of business, marketing, profit & loss, taxation etc etc. and I do not recall ever hearing any speaker mention spirituality in the workplace.
(As an aside...from my experience of church life I would say the church is almost the exact opposite, concentrating on “spiritual” things but paying little attention to the workplace.)
So...workplace spirituality, is it an oxymoron, i.e. a group of words with apparent contradictions (not a really dumb welder!)
Workplace and Spirituality, I propose to look at each word seperately, and then see if we can connect the two....it's gonna be a bit of a hotch potch.
...stay tuned for part 2.