Julene Cook
Crafting Meaning
and Purpose
Know Yourself — Do What You Love
Psychological research into what makes life meaningful — translated into practical understanding, activities, and resources.
Seeking Meaning and Purpose?
Don't give up.
A Different Starting Point
Many answers to questions of meaning and purpose begin with philosophical ideas, religious beliefs, psychological theories or assumptions about how people ought to live.
Crafting Meaning and Purpose began differently. These influences were deliberately set aside in order to investigate meaning and purpose through careful psychological study of lived experience itself.
The research sought to identify what was common to experiences of meaninglessness — and to the pathways by which people developed lives experienced as meaningful and purposeful.
This website translates the findings into practical understanding, activities and resources, while also supporting further research into questions that emerged from them.
What You Will Find Here
Four Ways to Engage
01
Understand Meaninglessness
Learn what research revealed about the lived experience of meaninglessness and the pathways by which people developed lives experienced as meaningful and purposeful.
Explore the Research
03
Explore Examples of Meaning through Creativity
Poetry and song, lapidary and hand made jewellery, artworks and a passion for nature's creations — each one a living example of meaning expressed through craft.
View Creative Offerings
02
Craft Meaning and Purpose
Explore activities and pathways that help people develop meaningful lives. Explore practitioner resources for helping others find meaning and purpose.
Access Resources
04
Support Future
Research
Support a scholarship fund for more research on lived meaning and purpose — through purchases and donations. Every contribution goes directly to the work.
Support the Scholarship
Know yourself — do what you love. These are not separate instructions. They are the same one.
Julene Cook