Surviving the Workday

So what is spirituality in the workplace?

Spirituality is notoriously difficult to define. I’ve settled on a definition of spirituality as the integration of the whole person, meaning body, mind, and soul.  However, you can ask an expert (and I have!) to define spirituality and get lots of different responses. The absolute best parsing of the various definitions of spirituality and religion is in Doug Hick’s book Religion and the Workplace, which examines the various meanings of spirituality and religion.

 The workplace is where you spend your day whether it’s caring for a child or aging parent at home in the country or work with numbers in a tall office building in the city (or anywhere in between). Tom Wayman, the Canadian work poet, said that, “Work is anything that we do that makes the world go round.” I think that’s right.

So spirituality in the workplace is the of integration of the whole person into your daily life.