CAREER & SPIRITUALITY
Conversations
We investigate where professional and spiritual journeys intertwine.
Career
& Spirituality
Conversations
We investigate where professional and spiritual journeys intertwine.
Episode 30
The Path Of The Spiritual Warrior
With Thomas Legrand
Conversations Take Aways:
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Learnings from immersion in the Native spirituality of Mexico
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Capitulation or the practice of reclaiming one’s energy
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The practice of Non-Doing
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A career guided by the energy of the Forest and Wood element
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Lessons from communicating the Inner Dimension to a variety of audiences
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We are open, but the system keeps us isolated
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What is Politics of Being, and its vision for a sustainable future anchored in wisdom.
About Thomas
Thomas is a wisdom’s seeker, a social scientist and a sustainability practitioner.
Holding a Ph.D. in Economics, he works on forest conservation, climate change, sustainable finance, and leadership with UN organizations, NGOs and companies.
He is currently the Lead Technical Advisor for the UNDP-convened Conscious Food Systems Alliance.
He is the author of the internationally acclaimed book “Politics of Being. Wisdom and Science for a New Development Paradigm” (2022), an invitation to radically rethink our model of development.
His spiritual journey began at the age of 23 with an encounter with native spirituality in Mexico, and he now lives with his wife and their two young daughters near Plum Village, the monastery of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in the South West of France, his country.
