Welcome
Welcome to the Foundation for Workplace Spirituality. We are a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to raising spiritual awareness and consciousness in the workplace amongst many different groups – employees, managers, leaders, the media, shareholders and other stakeholders. This website contains resources, contacts and links to support individuals, communities and organisations who are exploring workplace spirituality. Our aim is to provide a forum through which everyone can network, connect and engage in a conversation that advances the raising of spiritual consciousness, awareness and practice. We would welcome two things from you as you explore this site – firstly, that you share any feedback that you have about its focus and content with us by sending us an email, and secondly, as we are a not-for-profit organisation we welcome donations to support our work. If this site resonates with you please consider becoming a friend or taking an active role in our fundraising activities. Thank you
Recent Resources
- Leadership is a quality belonging to all people. Leadership describes an energetic force a person has to forge ahead, to lean into the future, co-constructing reality as we meet it. There is a `tipping point’ which connects a person in his immediate and emerging reality. This quality allows a person to live between two worlds; the physical world and the metaphysical (imaginal) world. There is no doubt that we are capable of moving between these two worlds (Corbin, 1972, Heron, 1992).
- The article explores and describes levels of personal and spiritual development. The facilitation of spiritual development requires knowledge of the stages and states the person.
- Profit, shareholder value, going global? Yes - and- quite unexpectantly - spirituality. Top leaders are showing an increasing interest in spirituality in the workplace as they realise that the needs of new generations of corporate contributors have moved exponentally beyond even Maslow's hierarchy. What do leaders do about this? What is spirituality in the workplce? What are the benefits? And who is a spireitual leader? We attempt to offer answers from business research and our daily work with leaders, take a look at the contributions from transpersonal psychology and, finally, offer some reflections on spiritual leaders.
- Seven Action Logics; how people interpret their surroundings and react when their power of...
Forthcoming Events
- Bonhays Farm - Whitchurch Canonicorum - Dorset DT6 6RF - Tel: 01297 489615 - www.bonhays.co.ukOct 30 2009 - Nov 1 2009The past few years have seen an acceptance in the commercial world, that leaders who demonstrate both Resilience and Emotional Intelligence are going to be more effective. Until now this work has emphasized the “what” of each of these capabilities, but has left individuals with less clarity about “how” to develop these valuable qualities and behaviours in a way that is evidence based. If you want your Leaders to be able to cope, as authentic role models, in times of stress, change and impermanence and recover quickly, develop increased executive functioning under pressure, increase skills in empathy and relationship building, improve physical resilience and immune function, enhance the capacity to deal with complexity, face into problems more rapidly, you need to seriously consider this new programme from Relume.
- Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor, UKMay 4 2010 - May 6 2010Summary of this very successful event when- over 2 days- delegates explored the relevance of spirituality for the socio-economic, political, cultural and educational challenges of contemporary society
