Chart Your Roadmap

Chart Your Roadmap
December 3, 2020

First, From the Heart

We all want to be compassionate leaders. We all know it’s time to step up and bring the change we want to see/be in the world. But where do we begin? What is the path that each of us are meant to forge from the circumstances that surround us today, to the future we want to create?

The road is long, with many a winding turn, as the Hollies sang in 1970. Perhaps 2020 brought more unexpected turns than anyone could have imagined, yet here we are. What’s next? Get clarity on your intention by asking your heart. Decide where to focus your attention, energy, and resources. And support each other on the journey of compassionate leadership.

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Your Roadmap for Compassionate Leadership, Part 1

The urgency for compassionate leadership in this world is stronger than ever. For those interested in developing their own compassionate leadership capacities, we offer a roadmap to developing these skills over the next three weeks. This week’s post covers four dimensions of individual compassionate leadership, and will be followed by posts on organizational dimensions, and the tools to use to develop your skills. Read more.

Practice Matters

Trust Within

How do we trust what has always felt like truth? Most of what we presume is solid, or reliable, or safe, may no longer be so. Change is always in motion, yet we are often uncomfortable celebrating the impermanence of everything. We fall back into old patterns and beliefs systems that were never ours to begin with.

Where can we turn now to feel the peace within? The stillness lies beneath the fear and doubt, embodied in our being, awaiting our arrival. Then, in the quiet, we can be with what truly is ours alone. We can embrace our deep knowing, without even knowing how we know. Trusting completely. That’s where peace, truth, and love reside.

When can we practice? Always!

Upcoming Events

8-Week Compassionate Leadership and Resilience Training for Global Health Leaders
Next Cohort Begins January 27, 2021

The Center for Compassionate Leadership and the Task Force for Global Health’s Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics (FACE) have teamed up to offer a timely and unique online course for global health professionals. Our next cohort for Compassionate Leadership and Resilience Training for Global Health Leaders starts January 27, 2021. This first-of-its-kind training delivers evidence-based tools, techniques, and practices that support leaders, teams, and organizations to thrive in these most challenging times. We are now accepting applicants for the next course. Find out more and apply now.

Recommended Reads

The Power Paradox: How we gain and lose influence
by Dacher Keltner

The same attributes that cause individuals to gain power are attributes that are undermined once one has achieved a position of power. Dacher Keltner, in The Power Paradox, using research based evidence, rebuts the idea that power is primarily about force and coercion, and argues that we have missed much of the impact of power by defining power only in terms of unequal force. Read more.

Leadership, Evolved.

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