As research continues and theoretical advances are made, applications to practice come into sharper focus. Career counselors can collaborate with clients to explore how their religious/spiritual frameworks can inform their career decision-making, with the goal of achieving alignment. Within organizations, human resource professionals and organizational leaders might collaborate to deploy Bennet’s (2008) "utilization" strategy. Planning sessions in which employees deliberately appeal to their meaning systems (including religious/spiritual meaning systems) to shape organizational goals and objectives are an example of this.

On the federal level, we can advocate on behalf of HR1, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and, in honor of the memory of George Floyd, through the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. If you're in one of the RAC states, you can also get involved in helping support legislative work at the state level. We also have to do a better job with creating spaces of belonging for Jews with disabilities and Jews who represent the LGBTQ+ community -- two populations that are marginalized both in our community and externally as well. Additionally, Jewish spaces have to be sure that we fully recognize and embrace as part of our community Jewish adjacent partners, interfaith families, and unaffiliated Jews. The 15% is one reason for us to embrace and support the diversity within the community, but even if the numbers were lower, it is still our responsibility, our moral duty to create spaces of belonging for everyone in our community. We talk about growth &amp