In a previous conference paper called “Developing Practical Spirituality in the Workplace” Robin proposed a five-pointed holistic definition of spirituality. There he suggests that spirituality at work involves:

2. Seeking to embody spiritual values (love, acceptance, compassion, forgiveness, honesty, integrity) in all that we do and in all our relationships

3. Making space for all that stops us – we might call this working with the shadow, and the “inner critic” or judge

4. Acting in ways that acknowledge, embrace and enhance the presence of something beyond the physical here and now, beyond that which we can perceive with our senses of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing

5. Understanding the holographic principle, or “as above, so below”.

Since then, our work in consultancy, training and coaching has led us both to reaffirm these core criteria and to add three inter-related processes - three aspects of “how” to bring spirituality into the workplace to add to the “what?” that I hope to have at least partially addressed in my earlier paper.

These three processes are:

(i)          Practicing presence

(ii)         Building trust

(iii)        Creating community