Career Events & Arch Ready Programs

ALUMNI EVENT: Vital Signs: Discovering and Sustaining Your Passion for Life with speaker and author Gregg Levoy

Date: March 18, 2019
Time: 6:00 pm until 9:30 pm

Location: Other, 815 Houston Mill Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, United States

Calling UGA Alumni!

Join Gregg Levoy, best-selling author of Callings (Random House) and Vital Signs (Penguin), for a fun evening focused on discovering and sustaining passion in our life and careers.

VITAL SIGNS: DISCOVERING AND SUSTAINING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE

What inspires passion in your life? And what defeats it? How do you lose it and how do you get it back? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore how to cultivate not just a specific passion, but passion as a mindset—a stance—that helps bring vitality to all your engagements. Through a series of self-reflective questions, as well as discussion, dyad and small group work, and brainstorming, you’ll examine the endless, yet endlessly fruitful, tug-of-war between passion and security in your life, the wild in you and the tame. And you’ll do some courageous inquiry into your dis-passion—where you might be numb, stuck or bored—so you can rework these tendencies and claim your rightful inheritance of vitality.

What you'll learn:

• Passion can be cultivated. Turned on as well as turned off.
• Passion is in the risk. In the willingness to step from the sidelines onto the playing field.
• Passion breeds passion and disinterest breeds disinterest. If you lack passion in your own life, your other relationships—your partnerships, friendships, communities, classrooms, corporations—will be denied that energy.
• Passion is more than exuberance; it's endurance.
• Passion is intimately related to health. To the degree that passion is vitality, honoring your passions enhances your vitality.

Gregg Levoy is the author of Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion (Penguin) and the bestseller Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life (Random House)—rated among the "Top 20 Career Publications" by the Workforce Information Group. He has presented at the Smithsonian Institution, Environmental Protection Agency, Microsoft, National Conference on Positive Aging, American Counseling Association, National Career Development Association, the Universities of Colorado/California/Washington/Alabama/Wisconsin, and been a frequent guest of the media, including ABC-TV, CNN, NPR and PBS. A former adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico, former behavioral specialist at USA Today, and reporter/columnist at the Cincinnati Enquirer, he has written for the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Omni, Psychology Today, Fast Company, and many others. His website is www.gregglevoy.com.

Recommended dress for this event: Casual

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For more information, please contact the UGA Career Center at 706-542-3375.

This event is sponsored by the University of Georgia Career Center

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