10 Principles for Creating a Meaningful Career: A Workshop Series

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Over the past twenty-five years, Echoing Green has uncovered the common experiences that led young emerging professionals to meaningful, high-impact work. Accordingly, Tulane will be offering a workshop series aimed at helping students identify the career paths that are right for them and good for the world. These workshops, offered by trained “Work on Purpose” facilitators and based on scholarship from the world’s top research institutions, will help students explore and practice these principles. Each session will take place on Thursday from 12:30 to 1:45 pm at the CELT office (310 Richardson Building). Lunch is provided, and attendees should register at least 24 hours in advance.

Topics include:

  • 1/30 – Family Influences: Uncover conscious and subconscious messages you receive about work and how those messages shape the way you approach your career
  • 2/6 – Know What You’ve Got, Know What You Need: Identify your gifts and surround yourself with people whose gifts complement your own
  • 2/13 – Taking Care of You: Figure out how to sustain yourself while working on the issues that matter deeply to you
  • 2/20 – Moment of Obligation: Discover the social problems you most want to address and your priorities in addressing these social problems
  • 2/27 – Heart + Head = Hustle: Identify work that aligns your heart, the issues that matter most to you, and your head, the unique gifts you can contribute
  • 3/13 – Take Perspective….Someone Else’s: Discuss how to create solutions that are right for the communities you are trying to serve
  • 3/20 – Hustle Statement: Develop your own personal purpose statement
  • 3/27 – Fail-Off: Confront your fear of failure, a central barrier emerging professionals face when pursuing their purpose
  • 4/3 – Fear Means Go: Identify and face fears that may keep you from walking your purpose path
  • 4/10 – Transforming Challenges into Strengths: Recognize clues within your personal challenges that help point to your purpose

For more information, please contact Rebecca Otten at rotten@tulane.edu.