Find your sense of life meaning and purpose using science-based strategies! Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, a scholar of meaning and purpose, shares 4 basic strategies shown by research to help people find meaning and purpose in life. Please express your thoughts on the slide through leaving comments, clicking like, and sharing it with others. The presentation was brought to you by Intentional Insights, a nonprofit that empowers people to reach their goals using science-based strategies to help build an altruistic and flourishing world (www.intentionalinsights.org). Sign up for our newsletter here: http://intentionalinsights.org/newsletter

1. Find Your Purpose
Using Science
Secular Student Alliance Conference 2016
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
Co-Founder and President, Intentional Insights
Tenure-Track Professor, The Ohio State University
Author, Find Your Purpose Using Science
Former SSA Club President

2. Your Own Sense of
Meaning and Purpose

3. For Your Health!

4. Sadness and Internal Angst

5. Meaning and Purpose Quotient
TAKE 2 MINUTES TO RATE YOURSELF AND ADD THE NUMBERS
1 = “ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE” 10 = “ABSOLUTELY TRUE”
1) ___ I have a strong sense of meaning and purpose in life
2) ___ I have a clear understanding of what gives my life meaning and purpose
3) ___ I actively search for a sense of meaning and purpose in life
4) ___ I actively reflect on my sense of meaning and purpose in life
5) ___ I engage in activities that help me experience meaning and purpose
6) ___ I engage in social service that helps others have better lives
7) ___ I have meaningful social and community bonds
8) ___ I have social connections that help me gain meaning and purpose
9) ___ I help others find meaning and purpose in life
10) __ I am satisfied with my sense of meaning and purpose in life
For online app with this test, go to FindYourPurpose.Online

6. Gaining Meaning and Purpose:
Strategy 1, Long-Term Goals

7. Gaining Meaning and Purpose:
Strategy 2, Self-Reflection Part 1

8. Gaining Meaning and Purpose:
Strategy 2, Self-Reflection Part 2

9. Gaining Meaning and Purpose:
Strategy 3, Community

10. Gaining Meaning and Purpose:
Strategy 4, Serving Others

11. Fortunately for you, SSA helps
you get all of these

12. How?
• Community support & social bonds – always
• Serving others – many events
• Self-reflection – some events
• Figuring out your goals – some events

13. Specific Events
• SSA Group Discussion Event focused on
meaning and purpose (collaboratively created
with Intentional Insights)
https://secularstudents.org/IntentionalInsights
• You can also bring me in as speaker, virtual or
in-person
– I’m on the SSA Speaker Bureau

14. Thank You!
• PowerPoint of this presentation: slideshare.net/intentionalinsights
• Free version of my science-based book, Find Your Purpose Using
Science: tinyurl.com/fypus2015
• Get in touch with me at gleb@intentionalinsights.org
• Intentional Insights
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