Designing Your Spiritual Life

Catalog description

An atheist, an Imama, a Reverend, a designer and a Rabbi walk into a juice bar. They apply human centered design to integrate spirituality into everyday life and vocational wayfinding, and the result is a class that explores spiritual needfinding, designing and prototyping spiritual rituals, and creating odysseys with coherence/spiritual health as a gauge for students to reflect on. Designing Your Spiritual Life will introduce the innovative problem-solving methodology of design thinking within the context of "life design for students with a spiritual focus," with two main objectives: 1. to serve as an affinity space for students who are interested in multifaith discussions on spiritual wellness, and 2. to equip these students with practical ideas and tools with which they can proactively craft their life experiences. Students are not expected to be adherents of or have expertise in religious practices and traditions or background in religious scholarship. Seekers, students of faith and no faith are all welcome. This class includes seminar-style and small-group discussions, activities, personal written reflections, and individual mentoring/coaching. In this experiential class, students will engage in meaningful, spiritual dialogue and explore ways to nurture meaning and purpose in their daily lives.