Playful Conversation - The Meaning of Life

Life’s meaning is one of the oldest questions humans have asked. Once tied to duty, faith, or enduring hardship, it is now often equated with happiness and self-fulfillment - yet psychology suggests that what feels most meaningful is rarely what feels most comfortable.

Let’s playfully explore meaning not just as a philosophical problem, but as something lived and shaped through our everyday choices and values - and reflect on questions such as:

• When does your life feel meaningful - and when doesn’t it?
• Where do we tend to get meaning wrong in our own lives?
• Is meaning found, made, inherited or accidental?
• How do responsibility, care for others, and contribution shape our sense of purpose?
• What’s the difference between meaning and purpose - if there is one?
• Why does the awareness of finitude or impermanence sharpen what matters?
• What small, often overlooked things carry more meaning than they seem to?

✨ Playful experiment
We’ll do a little experiment together, using intuitive choices to explore how meaning shows up in us before we name it, and to let our intuitions surface first before we reflect on them.

Looking forward to a thoughtful and light-hearted conversation on the meaning of life :-)

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