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Top Five Books of 2021
December 3, 2021
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First, From the Heart
Do you feel like you can’t wait to put this tumultuous year behind you? Maybe you are called to slow down to rest, restore, and forgive as the holidays approach. Or are you brimming with anticipation for your continued growth and impact as we cross into 2022?
In conversations this week with alumni from our Compassionate Leadership and Resilience Training cohorts, we heard about the highs and lows. The exhaustion, the grief, the frustration, and failures were all present. Collectively, we honored all that we had experienced.
Additionally, we celebrated all that was shared about baby steps, country-wide initiatives, culture shifts, new priorities, self-compassion, systems change, boundaries, and transformation. We marveled at how modest seeds of compassionate intention grew into global projects affecting people and planet.
Each leader in the conversation recognized how important it is to hold it all – the joy and the suffering. We shared our support in community for each other to be inspired, to stay resourced, to practice, and to expand our love without limits. We hope this sparks the same powerful intentions and awareness in all of us.
With heart,
Laura
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Best of the Blog
Top Five Compassionate Leadership Books of 2021
We present our top five books on compassionate leadership for 2021! This has been a stellar year for books supporting the movement towards compassionate leadership, making the selection of the top five quite challenging. Whether for yourself, your team, or as a gift for an admired or aspiring compassionate leader in your life, any of these five books offer a wonderful way to launch into 2022. Read more.
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Research Worth Sharing
Managers: Compassion and Accountability Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
by Amy Gallo
in Harvard Business Review, August 16, 2021
There were many great compassionate leadership articles in 2021, just as there were an abundance of great books. This article provides particular wisdom for leaders seeking to navigate forward following the huge disruptions of the past two years. This is an article for this specific time and for all times. Read the research.
Image Credit: Getty Images, from the linked article.
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Practice Matters
Fly Free
If I truly lived in my imaginative truth, who would I be in this moment? What wild possibility would I create? What might my heart feel like as it bursts with boundless and unconditional love?
Instead, I sit with many resistances, fears, limitations, and inhibitions. I get it’s not just my own dilemma. All of us are a product of this time, our society, culture, communities, and families. Yet I know in my bones I am full of unrealized potential. How do I compassionately bridge the gap between my deepest expression and everything I was told I am not?
Can I let go of judging others, and especially the judgement I pour upon myself – especially that which is hidden even to me. Might I be able to feel into an embodied sense of freedom, where the points of resistance dissolve from my being? Where I inhabit my full and complete self, whole and perfect in its naked presence to all that is. I allow. I am love.
When can we practice? Always!
If you'd like to explore additional Practice Matters, you can find them here.
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Upcoming Events
Global Compassion Community Gathering
Attend free community event online December 9
Let’s activate our self-love and self-care to enable us to be the change makers we were born to be! Our guest presenter and practice leader is Shelly Tygielski, author of Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World. She is the founder of Pandemic of Love, a global, grassroots, volunteer-led mutual aid community that has directly matched nearly two million people since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pandemic of Love is a brilliant example of how one person’s courageous compassion can activate systemic change with massive impact!
The event is co-hosted by Laura Berland, Founder of the nonprofit Center for Compassionate Leadership, and Monica Worline, co-author of Awakening Compassion at Work, and Research Scientist at The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education | CCARE at Stanford University. Please register for the free event to reserve your spot. Find out more and register here.
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Upcoming Events
Global Health Compassion and Respectful Maternal & Newborn Care: Exploring Intersections and Synergies
Attend online December 16, 2021
11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Two recent movements in global health — respectful maternal and newborn care (RMC) and global health compassion (GHC) — emphasize the importance of often unaddressed issues of respect, human dignity, and compassion. Although the aims of RMC and GHC are similar in many respects, these two communities have yet to explore the points of connection between their respective conceptual approaches, goals, or practices. This GHCR will bring these two communities into conversation and explore ways in which they can support and amplify each other’s efforts. Find out more.
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