Pandemic / Climate / Polarization / Cuts / GenAI – Does responding to existential challenges always mean doing more and dreading more, or is there anything we can set aside? 

In this session we consider how to create more breathing room in our professional lives. We’ll try sorting the possibilities into four buckets: practical, technical, personal and social. Then we’ll compare notes, pool our resources and hopefully leave with concrete strategies and shared commitments to reclaim some “air and light and time and space.” 

The high calling of our work can both enrich and deplete us, and sometimes makes it harder to draw boundaries around that work. All the more reason for us, at each turn in the road, to take stock of our capacities, to be intentional about our priorities and to affirm our ability to make choices.