Building Compassionate Organizational Culture

Building Compassionate Organizational Culture
December 10, 2020

First, From the Heart

Greetings compassionate friends! Last week we began a series of blogs about planning and implementing compassionate leadership in our organizations for 2021. This week we move from the inside out, from developing our own personal compassionate leadership skills to building compassionate culture.

Changing existing culture can require tremendous patience, practice, wisdom, and political savvy. Not to mention a village of internal and external allies, cheerleaders, and trailblazers to illuminate the path. Get clear on your intentions, focus, and then take compassionate action to set the gears in motion. Start from wherever you are. Know that even simple shifts can impact the cultural tide within your organization and ripple out into the larger field.

Best of the Blog

Your Roadmap for Compassionate Leadership, Part 2

This chaotic moment in history presents a golden opportunity to bring compassionate leadership into your organization. For courageous leaders ready to develop their own compassionate leadership capacities, this is the second of three posts offering a roadmap to developing these skills. This week we talk about the four dimensions to develop greater organizational compassionate cultures. Read more.

Practice Matters

Choose to Pause

Our insanely fast-paced world presents infinite choices in every moment. Often, we feel like we are on the whoosh of a waterslide shooting us straight down into a rabbit hole. The swirl is real. It’s a powerful force that consumes our attention even when we have a different plan for our precious time.

The simple remedy to avert the chute is always available. Choose differently. The choice point is as near as the next breath. Pay attention. Choose to pause. Choose to enter the quiet space that awaits you. The space between is still. It’s potent. And holds all the potential of the future you truly desire. Feel into it. Choose with intention from this place and find joy in your new path forward.

When can we practice? Always!

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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

Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
by Sharon Salzberg

“Compassion doesn’t mean we don’t fight. It means we don’t hate.” This quote is but one tiny part of the deep wisdom throughout Sharon Salzberg’s new book, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World. The wisdom and balance this book offers is precisely what is needed in our highly fractured, conflicted time, guiding us to use our mindfulness to lead our activism. Read more.

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