Here are some of the additional responses and resources that participants have shared via email, following the Trio events. Responses (comments) are included by permission.
Trio 2: Work-Life Balance and Contentment
1. Materials from Ian Smith (several of his comments during the Trio 2 gathering are related to his weblog entries on contentment). The moan one is from 20 March 2012:
http://simply-shabda.blogspot.ch/2012/03/on-contentment.html
Also see Ian's three entries on contentment and injustice:
http://simply-shabda.blogspot.ch/
Curse of Tolerance (4 April 2012)
Dungeons of Cynicism (5 April 2012)
Willberforce adn the Way of Love (8 April 2012)
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2. Materials from Rolf Carriere
A variety of short reflections-readings from the Brain Pickings weblog---see the subject "happiness."
http://www.brainpickings.org/?s=happiness
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3. Materials from Kelly O'Donnell
--Watch the video of Martin Seligman as he discussses flourishing/well-being.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weVPtrXMMx8#t=52
--I think well-being is a broader concept than work-life balance, self-care, stress management, happiness, etc. It is like "shalom"--an overall state of harmony/wholeness individually and collectively. I am aware of how hard it was for most in the Trio group interactions to only focus on oneself--on one's own well-being, without referencing the well-being of others, especially fellow humans who experience suffering, inequities, injustice, etc. So this is many of the people and populatons with whom we work. Further, perhaps helping others is a core part/influnce for one's own sense of wellbeing.
---We all seemed to wrestle with having an inner sense of contentment in spite of exteranl struggles/issue going on aroundus in our personal livs and in the world at large. Can we be truly content when so much of the world is discontent (that is, seriously troubled)? For a quick reminder of the latter, wach the UN Year In Review 2012 (about 10 minutes).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjSNVAtRiac
--Wondering what it would be like to compare Seligman's PERMA model of wellbeing (positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment) with the SDHs (Social Determinants of Health). In other words, how much is one's abitlty (or a community/nation's ability) to experience wellbeing limited by social, cultural, economic etc. factors? Have a look at the Rio Political Declaration on the Social Determinants of Health (WHO, October 2011):
http://www.who.int/sdhconference/declaration/en/ . Can PERMA and SDHs be integrated?!
--Our latest CORE Member Care weblog (21 November 2013) is on Nonviolence and Nonpassivity (part of the Pax Dei-Living in Peace series). It includes a five minute clip from the 1982 movie Gandhi, reenacting th events leading up to the 1930 "salt march" in India.