Meaning & Values
Here you will find articles about meaning and values as well as important research findings and useful and interesting insights on what makes life most worth living.
Existential Crisis: How to Cope With Meaninglessness
Recent statistics suggest that over a quarter of UK nationals feel a deep sense of meaninglessness (Dinic, 2021). In the wake of multiple global economic, [...]
9 Powerful Existential Therapy Techniques for Your Sessions
While not easily defined, existential therapy builds on ideas taken from philosophy, helping clients to understand and clarify the life they would like to lead [...]
15 Values Worksheets to Enrich Clients’ Lives (+ Inventory)
It’s not always easy to align our actions with our values. And yet, by identifying and exploring what we find meaningful, we can learn to [...]
6 Worksheets & Templates to Find Your Ikigai
What was your reason for getting up this morning? Often, we pass through life unclear of the meaning, motivation, or values behind what we do [...]
Finding Your Ikigai: 8 Questionnaires and Tests
The Japanese art of kintsugi involves repairing broken pottery with gold leaf to produce something more valuable and beautiful than the original. Imperfections form part of [...]
32 Ikigai Quotes That Will Inspire You and Make You Reflect
Ikigai (ee-key-guy) is a small word with a profound meaning. Translated from Japanese, ikigai means “reason to live.” It is often associated with the prefecture of [...]
5 Best Ikigai Books to Live a Meaningful Life [+ Summaries]
Ikigai is as much a way of life as an idea. While the Japanese approach to finding and living in a meaningful way is ultimately a [...]
Optimistic Explanatory Style: 5 Examples of How to Foster It
Oh dear… you were late for work, again. Or maybe you spotted a typo in your presentation? Did you not make it to the grocery [...]
The Philosophy of Ikigai: 3 Examples About Finding Purpose
Ikigai (ee-key-guy) is a Japanese concept that combines the terms iki, meaning “alive” or “life,” and gai, meaning “benefit” or “worth.” When combined, these terms [...]
15 Ways to Find Your Purpose of Life & Realize Your Meaning
Reading my philosophy thesis was like receiving an email from my 25-year-old self. “You don’t find meaning; you create it,” was my answer to the [...]
