PSCDA
December
Speaker
December 7, 2006, 6:30 PM
Topic: "Workplace Spirituality
-- Bringing More of Who We Are to What We Do"
Speaker: Elizabeth Guss, MA 
Location: Community Center,
Mercer Island, WA (For directions, click here)
Workplace Spirituality -- bringing more of who we are to what
we do...
More than having a meditation room at our
companies, the growing movement of workplace spirituality
comes out of a deep human need for meaning and connection.
Since our work occupies more of our waking time than any
other single activity, it makes sense that we would yearn
for that connection through the way we earn our living. Drawing
from nearly thirty years experience in organizations, Guss
explores briefly the theory and practice of answering a call
to live our own lives, including doing so through and with
our work. With a conscious goal of integrating spirit and
work, she invites people to enter the adventure of discerning
their talents and what they care about to find the intersection
that is at the heart of vocation. To engage our own hearts
and souls at work is to find cohesion between the exterior
and interior life. It is the path to enthusiasm and joy in
our work.
PSCDA presents Elizabeth Guss...
A
person of diverse interests and talents, Elizabeth has
thirty years experience in business, community organizations,
and government agencies, and helped many organizations
accomplish their goals, achieve their mission, and progress
toward their vision. She has a deep belief that individual
people can make a significant difference where-ever they
are...if they
choose to.
Drawing on a background in Human
Resources, Training, and General Management, Elizabeth
began to consult
independently eight
years ago. Her firm, Cohesion, focuses on integrating spirit
and work—helping people bring more of who they are
to what they do. Her work has taken her from the Mississippi
River to the west coast. Recently relocating to Washington
from Utah, Guss now claims Whidbey Island as her home.
Elizabeth earned a BA at the University
of San Francisco, an MA at St. Mary’s University
in Minnesota, and a certificate in Spiritual Direction.
She’s taught “Ethics
in business” in an MBA program and has spoken at various
regional, national, and international conferences. A frequent
board member of community agencies, she has chaired major
events for community organizations, most recently the 2003
History of Hope Gala of the Utah Chapter of the American
Cancer Society and the annual Whidbey Island Writers Conference
in 2005 and 2006.
To acknowledge her unique blend of spirited
work and effective business practice training, in 2004, Elizabeth
was named a Visionary-one
of 30 Women to Watch by Utah Business Magazine and the Salt
Lake Chamber of Commerce.
Like Emily Dickinson and Guss’s
Celtic forebears, she takes a long range view of life:“I
dwell in possibility and work to make things happen. It’s
an application of Celtic spirituality--tasks linked to a
vision.”
This meeting will
be followed by an interactive discussion around the growing
movement of spirituality
in the workplace.
For more details, check out http://www.spiritedwork.info/, or
contact Elizabeth Guss at (360) 221-2320.
Plan to attend and be inspired!
We thank PSCDA Webmaster, Mixie Kingman
Eddy,, for arranging the December speaker. Please contact
her if
you have any questions
about this meeting: mkeddy@gmail.com
Meetings are open to the public--free to
Members, $10 to nonmembers.
Questions about
membership can be directed to our Membership Chair: <pugetsoundcareer@gmail.com>
Please
Note our new venue at the Community Center on Mercer
Island! (For
directions, click here).
Also PLEASE NOTE there is GOURMET
DINING available for PSCDA Members!
Since PSCDA will discontiue serving food at monthly meetings, beginning in December,
we offer hungry members a new alternative. Sahara Pizza has agreed to deliver
your orders to the Mercer View Community Center by 6:30 pm on meeting nights.
Sahara Pizza offers individual size gourmet pizzas, a variety of dinner salads,
pastas and more. Here's how it works:
- Call Sahara Pizza by 3:00 the day of the PSCDA Meeting and indicate you are
a PSCDA member: (206) 232-9800
- Place your order and pay by phone. A $2.00 service charge will be added to
cover delivery and tip.
That's it. Your order will be labled with your name and delivered promptly to
the PSCDA meeting room at the Community Center by 6:30. To see a menu or place
an order, go to http://www.saharapizza.com/mercerisland/index.html
Drinks will continue to be served at the meeting.
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