Where Meaning Lives — Six everyday sources of a meaningful life

The Problem

"Many people have comfort, busyness and plenty to do, and still feel that something is missing. Meaning is not a lucky find; it grows from belonging, purpose, the story you tell, moments of transcendence, the way you meet hard times, and attention to the life in front of you."

What you'll achieve

Outcomes you can expect

See where you stand on the presence of meaning and the search for it
Deepen belonging and find the people your life matters to
Clarify purpose, and make sense of your own story
Make room for transcendence, growth through hardship and presence

The science behind it

What you'll learn

The Meaning in Life Questionnaire, Brooks's four portraits and the three elements of meaning
High quality connections, a friendship inventory and the eulogy exercise
Purpose discernment, the hierarchy of meaning in work, narrative identity and story-editing
Breaking the roof, nine beautiful things, interrupting the doom loop and a culture of meaning

What's included

Everything you get

33 tools across 8 modules, 27 of them built for this course from the three books
A reader for every module, built from the tools and checked against them
An audio guide on every tool, a course audio guide and a talk video for every module
Private fillable workbooks for 32 tools, kept on your own device; the questionnaire, which calculates your scores, stays online

Who it's for

The right fit

Designed for For any adult, in any season of life: at work, at home, in retirement, while caring for others, studying or between jobs. Faith of any kind, and none, is equally welcome. It follows You Matter More Than You Think and Helping People Matter.

A meaningful life is rarely built from grand gestures; it grows in ordinary places. The third course of MatteringWell4Life, a companion to Emily Esfahani Smith's The Power of Meaning, Arthur C. Brooks's The Meaning of Your Life and Shigehiro Oishi's Life in Three Dimensions, it starts with the Meaning in Life Questionnaire and Brooks's four portraits, then works through Smith's four pillars of meaning (belonging, purpose, storytelling and transcendence), growing through hardship, and interrupting the meaning doom loop, before closing with cultures of meaning and your own meaning plan.

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