Spirituality at Work
is run by a Project Team
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Spirituality at Work is currently run by volunteer participant/leaders, who facilitate conversations, lead workshops, develop program materials and manage the website. overseeing the development of the organization. Among these volunteers are our coordinator, Whitney W. Roberson, and our web guru, Sara Cook. |
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Spirituality at Work is coordinated by Whitney Roberson, a graduate of Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a member school of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union. Whitney focused her studies on transformative learning, supplementing her work at GTU with courses at the School for Transformative Learning of the California Institute for Integral Studies. Teacher and writer for 20 years, Whitney founded Spirituality at Work with her co-learners in the business community to continue the work they'd begun together while she was a student. She is an Episcopal priest serving as an Associate Pastor at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA, where she serves as a resource to GraceWorks, a program for people in job or career transition.
A personal word from Whitney: "When I was in graduate school, I began to see the need for developing some way people could integrate their spiritual lives with their daily work lives. Traditional after-hours study groups seemed problematic: folks are just too weary at the end of the day, and on weekends, we're all trying to catch up with household and family concerns. In one of those flashes of insight that happen on occasion, it dawned on me that we didn't need to figure out a way to incorporate spirit into our daily lives: divine Mystery was already present in our work and our workplaces, waiting for us to notice! Why not create conversations in the middle of those work places and explore together how to enjoy and serve the Sacred already at work where we were? And so, Spirituality at Work was conceived."
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| SAW Webmaster Sara Cook maintains this site as well as her personal sites, including her popular blog, Going Jesus.
A personal word from Sara: I started out as a dot-com drone, cloistered in my little cube, wondering why I wasn't all that happy despite having a "good job" and marketable skills. I got involved with SAW during that phase of my life, and it made all the difference. When the company I was working for went under in a spectacular manner, I followed a little voice inside me and went to work for an Episcopal parish. Although my paycheck took a 50% hit, I'm happier now and much more intentional about my work and its place in my life.
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