What makes a life truly meaningful – not simply busy, successful, or impressive, but coherent, purposeful, and significant?

This Wednesday, September 2, Westfield Young Professionals begins a new eight-part Philosophy Series, The Meaning of Your Life, exploring some of the deepest questions beneath the life we are already living: love, faith, work, beauty, service, suffering, calling, and the search for a life that genuinely holds together.

Drawing from themes in the work of Arthur Brooks and engaging them through a Christian understanding of the human person, this series is designed for young professional women who want more than surface-level answers. We want to think seriously, ask better questions, and learn how truth can shape the way we actually live.

Saint Josemaría Escrivá taught that our ordinary life is precisely where God meets us – in our work, friendships, responsibilities, service, prayer, and the seemingly small choices that fill an ordinary day. That vision sits quietly beneath this entire series. Meaning is not something we have to escape our real lives to find. It can be discovered, deepened, and lived right in the middle of them.

We Begin This Wednesday

Session 1: Introduction – The Meaning of Meaning
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Our opening question is simple to ask and much harder to answer:

What does it mean for my life to be coherent, purposeful, and significant?

This is not a lecture series about collecting abstractions. It is a chance to step outside the noise for an evening, think more deeply about the life you are building, and have a real conversation with other women who are asking many of the same questions.

Event Details

Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Main Location: Westfield Residence, 500 Kelton Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024

Satellite locations are also available in: Glendale, Rancho Cucamonga, San Diego, and Orange County. Satellite addresses will be added as soon as they are confirmed.

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The Full 8-Part Series

1. September 2 – Introduction: The Meaning of Meaning
What does it mean for my life to be coherent, purposeful, and significant?

2. October 7 – Real Life: Love, Beauty, Faith – Freedom from Simulation
How can I step out of the “doom loop” and live more deeply?

3. December 2 – Three Big Questions: The WHY of Your Life
Why do things happen the way they do? Where am I going? Why does it matter?

4. January 6 – Give Your Heart Away: Built for Love
Am I living for myself, or am I living for love?

5. February 3 – Transcend Yourself: Giving to Others
How can I build a real relationship with God in my everyday life?

6. March 3 – Look for Your Calling: The Meaning and Art of Work
How can I bring purpose and joy to my work?

7. April 7 – Surround Yourself with Beauty: Finding Meaning through Artistic and Moral Beauty
What beauty in my life helps me see God more clearly?

8. May 5 – Benefitting from Suffering: Personal Growth and Meaning
How can I find meaning and hope in my trials?

There is no November class. Our Young Professional Retreat will take place November 6 – 8.

Come Explore, Reflect, and Grow

If you have ever found yourself wondering whether the pieces of your life actually fit together – your faith, ambitions, relationships, work, desires, disappointments, and hopes – this series is for you.

Come for one session or walk with us through all eight. Bring your questions. Bring a friend. Bring the part of your life you are still trying to understand.

Explore. Reflect. Grow. In truth. In beauty. In love.

We would love to see you Wednesday.

Your friends at Westfield Young Professionals