Designing for Soul in Secular Work
Imagine unbundling the “spiritual technologies” usually housed in congregations – like small group ministry, text study, liturgy, and contemplative spaces – and reinterpreting them for application in secular workplaces. This lecture will roam around in generational realities, work trends, and remarkable opportunities for distributing “content” from traditional religious communities in surprising places. Using stories from the field, this lecture will explore the principles, pitfalls, and art of soul-centered design at work.
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More about our lecturer
Sue Phillips is relentlessly delighted by liberating ancient wisdom to help solve gnarly problems. An ordained minister and former denominational executive in the Unitarian Universalist tradition, she is the co-founder, with colleagues Casper ter Kuile and Angie Thurston, of Sacred Design Lab, a research and development lab that translates spiritual technologies to develop products, programs, and experiences that ground people’s social and spiritual lives. Sacred Design Lab has worked with clients and partners ranging from the Obama Foundation and the public radio show On Being, to Logitech and Pinterest. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the BBC, among many others.
Sue is part business strategist, part design geek, and part monastic. A graduate of Colgate University and the Episcopal Divinity School, Sue has taught at Harvard Divinity School, where she is a Ministry Innovation Fellow. She lives in Tacoma, WA with her wife Tandi Rogers.
More about the Bauer-Broholm Lecture
This lecture is made possible by a generous gift from Dr. Bradley P. Bauer (DMin ‘16), who endowed a fund to be used to support lectures on the topic of the ministry of the laity. Paying particular attention to the typology of the church/world encounter, this lecture series explores practices of Faith at Work, while also shining a light on the ways in which churches produce and validate leaders who make ethical contributions to society. The lecture honors Andover Newton’s history of educating the laity to bring faith to their life’s work, especially Andover Newton’s former Center for the Ministry of the Laity, which contributed to this work in the 1980’s. The Bauer-Broholm Lectures shall commend personal vocational discernment and deepen skills and knowledge for both clergy and lay leadership in faith communities. The lectureship also honors Dick Broholm, who brought Robert Greenleaf and his writings on ‘Servant Leadership’ to Andover Newton Theological School, binding its principles with the practices of lay ministry.”
