Dr Joel Vos
PhD MSc MA CPsychol FHEA AFBPS
Award-winning thought leader
on meaning and purpose in society
psychologist • philosopher • researcher • author • speaker • coach • therapist •
supervisor • business & political consultant
Because everybody deserves a meaningful life.
Meaning & purpose in life
What are meaning & purpose?
How can we live meaningfully despite life's challenges?
What does research say about meaning & purpose?
Our culture offers infinite fast food but almost zero nourishment for our soul, which binges on everything but thrives on nothing.
Business & economics
How can we find meaning & purpose in companies & organisations?
What is the shift towards the meaning-oriented economy?
What does systematic research say about this?
True Meaning in Life
cannot simply
be ordered and delivered
at your convenience.
Your new Meaning in Life
is expected to be delivered
later today.
Radicalisation & extremism
Why do individuals radicalise in their meaning in life?
How could a failure to live a meaningful life lead to extremism?
How can we cope with threats to our meanings?
How could communities, politicians & teachers prevent radicalisation?
Be critical of simplistic
mechanistic or
traditional-conformist
“solutions”.
Be critical of simplistic
mechanistic or
traditional-conformist
“solutions”.
Psychotherapy & other helping professions
How can professionals help clients live a meaningful life?
What does research say about existential therapies, transactional analysis, and other humanistic therapies?
We are not given
an instruction manual at birth.
We need to
write and rewrite this ourselves.
We are not given
an instruction manual at birth.
We need to
write and rewrite this ourselves.
Research methods
How can we research psychological therapies?
How can we make therapy research easier?
How can the Joel Research AI Bot help in research?
Do not reinvent the wheel.
Look around systematically to see what we already know about what works and what doesn't work.
Do not reinvent the wheel.
Just look around systematically
to see what we already know about
what works and what doesn't work.
Health & well-being
How do meaning & purpose impact our physical health?
How can neuroscience help people find meaning and purpose?
How did meaning and purpose evolve, from animals onwards?
How do people interpret medical info, such as COVID-19 & DNA-tests?
It should become normal to prescribe meaning in life in physical and mental health care.
It should become normal
to prescribe meaning in life
in mental and physical health care.
Politics & social change
Why do individuals radicalise in their meaning in life & politics?
How could we Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism (P/CVE)?
How could we create a society in which each individual can live a meaningful life?
How can therapists & other professionals help social injustice victims?
Our culture offers infinite fast food
but almost zero nourishment for our soul,
which binges on everything
but thrives on nothing.