Humainologie dialogue for next Wednesday September 23 with Helen Ostrowski and Helen Keller
- Arthur Clark
- Sep 18, 2020
- 2 min read
Hello Dialogue Artists of Calgary!
For our dialogue on Wednesday, September 23, I have one good question for you, which I will include near the end of this email.
Here is the Zoom link for that dialogue, as provided by Greg:
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81683922424?pwd=bXJ3NUNseEU2cTB2SWFYQlBEQ21yZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8392 2424
Greg MacGillivray
Managing Director
Scenarios to Strategy Inc.
C: 403.605.6493 P:403.270.0232
Helen Ostrowski, a highly creative architect, will join us to describe her project to create milestones for peace along the trans-Canada hiking trail. This is an extension of the project – the Silk Road to Peace - that she and her late husband, Jorg Ostrowski, initiated on that part of the Istanbul-to-Beijing Silk Road that goes through northern Iran. Like Helen, Jorg was an architect with a creativity that reached the spirit level.
Before next Wednesday, I will send you my synopsis of a book of essays by Helen Keller. Here is a 4-minute video on the life of Helen Keller
and an 18-minute video on her life (highly recommended) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfDV6-3qA4
and a video of Helen Keller live
Here is my good question for you for next Wednesday. First, a bit of background. As described by Jonathan Haidt in his book The Happiness Hypothesis, most people experience the work they do in one of three ways: as a job, a career, or a calling. How they experience their work is not determined by the “job description,” but by how they approach their work. For example, in one study of people working at a medical center – involving people from janitors to medical specialists – the researcher (Amy Wrzesniewski, a psychologist) found that a janitor might see his job as part of a team effort, the purpose of which was to heal people. With that approach, the person could bring to his work a creativity and inspiration that raised the janitorial work from a “job” to the level of a “calling.”
Now for the question itself: How do you experience the work you are currently doing? Is it a job? A career? Is it a calling? Please elaborate.
I suppose most people are very impatient to see the pandemic come to an end. That’s understandable. Once the pandemic is over, we can try something like this:
Until then, keep your spirits up, develop your creativity, and please have another chocolate.
Arthur
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