Lips-Wiersma Marjolein - The map of meaningful work: a practical guide to sustaining our humanity

First published 2011 by Greenleaf as The Map of Meaning: A Guide to Sustaining our Humanity in the World of Work

This edition published 2018

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2018 Marjolein Lips-Wiersma and Lani Morris

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ISBN: 978-1-78353-305-3 (hbk)

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This book has arisen out of more than twenty years of ongoing work with the Map of Meaning. It has been wonderful work to be involved in, and also challenging. To try to put words to the inner world of meaning, and then to find ways to make this helpful to others, to organisations and society has been a long and confronting task, and ultimately enormously fulfilling.

Where does that leave us as authors? Where does it leave us as a group of committed practitioners? And where does it leave you? What comes next?

In this appendix we discuss our vision for our work, our hopes for the future and how you can become part of this.

We would not have embarked on this work if we did not think that it had the potential to contribute something of great value to our fellow human beings. The further we have progressed with it the more value we have been able to see in it. We hope that has also been your experience in reading this book and in doing the exercises.

The questions in the exercise above are based on the responses that we received from people who read the first edition and have done our workshops. Many have invented new uses for the Map and a number have made it a key aspect of their work. Some of them are the group of supportive practitioners that we have mentioned numerous times in the text. They asked us for this book, and it was largely spurred on by their demand and support that we wrote it. They also talked about wanting a community of practitioners and ways that they could get together with others who use the Map. In response to this we have set up the Map of Meaning International, a charitable trust created to offer information and a connection point for people interested in working with the Map.

Our vision has always been that the Map of Meaning is available in all parts of the world, so that all human beings can access and use it. Since it comes from the wisdom of ordinary people, we simply wish to return it to people. There are a number of ways that we think things might continue from here.

First, use our website : www.themapofmeaning.org. On it you will find different areas of interest: using the Map, the services we offer, future development of the Map and work to do with it, plus a list of certified practitioners, lead contacts in different countries, links to talks we have given, academic articles, etc.