Dr Joel Vos
PhD MSc MA CPsychol FHEA AFBPS
Thought leader
on meaning and purpose in society
psychologist • philosopher • researcher • author • speaker • therapist supervisor • coach • business & political consultant • mediator
Because everybody
deserves a meaningful life.
Meaning & purpose in life
What are meaning and purpose in life?
How can individuals learn to live a meaningful life?
How can therapists, coaches & counsellors help individuals
live a meaningful life despite life's inevitable challenges?
How can we systematically research meaning and purpose?
Our culture offers infinite fast food
but almost zero nourishment
for our soul,
which binges on everything
but thrives on nothing.
Business & economics
Why do business leaders, customers, voters, and politicians
increasingly focus on authentic meaning and purpose?
How could companies focus more on
the meanings and purposes of their stakeholders?
How could business leaders and consultants become more efficient
by using research on meaning and purpose?
What is the global trend towards a meaning-oriented economy?
How could we teach and study the Economics of Meaning in Life?
Your new Meaning in Life
is expected to be delivered
later today.
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”.
Humanistic & existential therapies
How can therapists, coaches and counsellors help clients
with life's big questions of suffering, death, freedom & connection?
What is the scientific basis of existential therapies?
How could therapists learn evidence-based skills, tips & tricks?
What makes Transactional Analysis effective?
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 &
Joel Research AI Bot
How can we research psychological therapies?
How can we make research less overwhelming
and more structurally sound by doing it step-by-step?
What are the underlying conceptual models of
psychological therapies, and what is their evidence?
How could therapy & psychology students learn research?
How can the Joel Research AI Bot used for 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 can we cope with COVID-19?
How does having a sense of meaning and purpose improve
our immune system and cardiovascular health?
How can neuroscience help people find meaning and purpose?
How did meaning and purpose evolve, and
what meaning-making competencies do we share with animals?
How do people interpret and cope with DNA-test results?
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
How could we contribute to creating a society
in which each individual can live a meaningful lfie?
How can we organise effective social movements?
How can therapists, counsellors, coaches, social workers and other care workers help victims of social injustice?
How beneficial and harmful is the mental health care system?
Our culture offers infinite fast food
but almost zero nourishment for our soul,
which binges on everything
but thrives on nothing.