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“When work is a pleasure, life is joy, when work is a duty, life is slavery” (Maxim Gorky) This is Part II of my series on joy at work, this time from the perspective of an individual employee.  In this article I will explore what an individual’s responsibility is to...

From languishing to experiencing joy at work By Nanci Hogan, for ella forums “People intrinsically seek joy. And joy connects people more powerfully than almost any other human experience.” * Think for a moment.  How are you and your teams feeling now as you have started back to work this...

Moving from fundamentalisms to flourishing Everyone who was alive at the time remembers where they were on 9/11.  I vividly remember being in a grocery store in the UK and someone saying did you hear that two planes just flew into the Twin Towers in New York?  As an American...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE PRO-LIFE? I am very taken with the idea, raised by a person on twitter, about the need for the Democrats and the progressive coalition that supports Biden/Harris, to reclaim and redefine the term ‘pro-life’.  This is not meant as a personal attack on any...

The militarization of the police in the United States and elsewhere is a problem.  I have never witnessed scenes like the ones referenced in this Washington Post article in the United States to this extent before and it is alarming.  These scenes do not belong in a healthy mature democracy....

Last weekend, in the space of less than 24 hours there were two mass shootings, one in El Paso, Texas where the current death toll is 23, and one in Dayton, Ohio, where the current death toll is nine.  Only a week before,  three people were massacred in a mass...

  It’s a Wonderful Life is a classic Christmas movie.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched it over the decades.  The first time I remember watching it was as a teenager. The message is simple yet profound—how would the world have been different if George Bailey committed...

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  After Kavanaugh, where do we go from here?  Do we give up?  Is despair an option, do we hide, do we self medicate with alcohol?  Do we fight?  If we fight, how? The Kavanaugh—Christine Blasey Ford hearing and aftermath have been much debated, and lots has been written about...

INTRODUCTION TO SOPHIA TRANSFORMATIONS    Sophia Transformations looks at how best to facilitate social change and social transformation.   This involves a world view shift from the dualistic one we have now which separates body, mind and spirit, to a more holistic one that integrates body, mind and spirit.  Shifting our...

  Building Partnerships.  Transforming Lives Welcome to Sophia Transformations, a business committed to bringing together the charity sector, the public sector, the private sector and academia in order to effectively tackle social issues.  The world is too complex for any one sector to tackle the issues that face our world...