Seminar Series: Continuing Conversations about a Life Well-Lived

Continuing Conversations about a Life Well-Lived

Pip Harris and Joe Foweraker invite you to join them for a second series of conversations about the challenges of A Life Well-Lived. We call them conversations because everyone will be welcome to join in. Life’s challenges are universal, but we all experience them in different ways. Our hope is that we may reach a better understanding of what it is to live a life well-lived by sharing our experiences and reflecting on them together.

You may recall Joe’s previous series of talks at the Ashburton Arts Centre on Democracy and the Making of the Modern World and, more recently, The Meaning of Life. Last Autumn Pip and Joe teamed up to explore five key issues that affect our lives and the emotions arising from them. They will now take on five more topics, beginning at 6pm on Thursday 8^th May. Each topic can stand alone, so please come along whenever you are free.

Note that the meetings will take place at the same time, same day each week upstairs in the Arts Centre Studio (20 steps, no lift).

The format for the meetings is relaxed and open-ended. Joe opens with a few ideas in conversation with Pip, just to get the ball rolling. And then it’s over to you. Come along in confidence. You are free speak or not speak, just as you please. We look forward to extending an equally warm welcome to all of you who joined us for the first series and any of you who would like to join us for the first time.

Here are the topics for the five weeks:

8/5/2025:         Success, failure, serenity

15/5/2025:       Being alone, loneliness, community

22/5/2025        Truth, lies, deception

29/5/2025        Happiness, sadness, resentment

5/6/2025          Life, death, afterlife

Pip Harris has a background in education and community development. She is a Quaker, an environmental & peace activist, and a community facilitator.

Joe Foweraker is an Emeritus Fellow of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter. Over the course of his career, he has studied and taught literature, language, politics, and philosophy; and has worked at universities and research centres worldwide.

See Joe’s books and autobiography: Amazon.com: Joe Foweraker: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

The image above is Sir Galahad, the Quest for the Holy Grail by Arthur Hughes (1870)

Tickets £8 or £5 or £3

Doors and bar open at 5.45pm