Shalom is the way things are meant to be. It’s meant for everyday, and for everyone.
This Hebrew word doesn’t just mean peace: it means wholeness, harmony, everything as it should be.
Maybe you know it by its English name, flourishing.
Even though much of life is broken, and even though we humans sometimes cause as many problems as we solve, shalom is still the experience we’re meant to pursue for ourselves and for others. It’s a central part of living a whole life.
So, what does shalom actually look like practically?
This question is the purpose driving Dr. Will Gray and his work through multiple businesses, newsletters, and books.
Discover practical shalom, and what it can look like to intentionally live, work, speak, and collaborate in ways that lead to more wholeness, harmony, and the way things were meant to be.
Your Guide: Dr. Will Gray
For nearly two decades, Dr. Gray (please call him Will) has written and spoken on practical shalom. He’s also helped hundreds of individuals and companies discover it for themselves.
Will leads two companies, both dedicated to the flourishing of humans and the pursuit of practical shalom.
Vocationality helps people get unstuck in their work-life, and reconnected to their best work and their True Self.
ALIGN for Business helps the organizations inside service companies and churches get strong, healthy, and undistracting.
Will has spoken on a variety of topics within practical shalom, including work-life wholeness, ideal relationships through business, the importance of silence, rehumanizing the web, the Ritz-Carlton mystique, and the powerful connections between faith and work.
His Ph.D. is from the University of St Andrews, where he wrote a thesis on T. S. Eliot among the Metaphysicals. He was also co-editor of The Interior Landscapes of Breaking Bad, and is the author of Rediscovering Silence: Finding Your Life’s Music in a World of Noise.
He lives with his family in Greenville, SC. He loves local uniques, but also travel—so he’s visited 47 states in the USA, as well as 15 other countries. More to come!