Bringing Meaning & Impact to Your Life and Career: PC School of Continuing Education’s Tull LIVE
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Jim Tull, who teaches Philosophy, Community Service and Global Studies at Providence College's School of Continuing Education as well as at the Community College of Rhode Island and Rhode Island’s state prison, appeared on GoLocal LIVE where he talked about bringing meaning — and impact — to your life and career.
At PC’s School of Continuing Education, Tull facilitates workshops on community building, cultural transformation, systems thinking and ‘Work that Reconnects.”
For much of his work life, Jim served as the co-director of Amos House, a homeless shelter and soup kitchen on Providence’s south side, while organizing dozens of campaigns promoting peace and justice.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“I encourage students to think carefully [not just] about what they want to do and what their passion is — but to consider a life of activism in a broad sense of the word, simply care about something beyond yourself and your family,” said Tull. “So the question then becomes how does what I want, what my passion is, connect or interface with how I can make an impact in the world?”
“The course is of course rooted in a critique of globalization and our global systems — there’s a global view to the course but also an emphasis on action that is taken at the local level,” he added.
To learn more about PC’s School of Continuing Education, go here.
Power of Positive Thinking
Tull is also the author of "Positive Thinking in a Dark Age," a collection of fourteen essays focused on promoting a ‘third way’ of addressing cultural and systemic unraveling across the globe, apart from direct aid or some form of political response. The essays posit that this third way is rooted in systems thinking, cultural transformation and the rebuilding of small-scale communities.
“This book is a collection of essays that I wrote between 2000 and 2015 that have this common thread of how do we think positively in a dark age,” said Tull. “When that book came out a few years ago, 'dark age' may have been kind of a leap but nowadays it doesn’t sound so remote.”
“I encourage readers to think about the future — and the uncertainty of the future — as a friend rather than an enemy,” said Tull.
This segment is part of a sponsored content series between GoLocalProv and the Providence College School of Continuing Education.
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