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Becoming Compassion
February 25, 2021
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First, From the Heart
Our conversations with global leaders during the last few months have been especially real and raw. We see leaders showing up and facing the tough issues that have reached a tipping point both personally and within their organizations.
Dealing with the reality of the times we are living in – the pressure, the grief, the overwhelm, as well as the potential for positive change – is bringing compassionate leaders to a new level of inner awareness. We find replenishment and new energy by visiting our inner landscape. Practices that bring us to this lightly traveled terrain reveal the riches that await us in every moment. Stay the course with compassion for yourselves and others. Practice is the way home.
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Best of the Blog
Being Compassion
Learning the principles of compassion and leadership are important steps on the journey to developing a meaningful compassionate leadership practice. Understanding and doing, however, are two different things. Those who want to show up as truly compassionate leaders need to integrate these principles and practices into their whole life so that is who they become. Read more.
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Practice Matters
The Bridge to Becoming
There is a self that has always been and will always be. The self that knows it is connected to everyone and everything. The self that lives in harmony with nature and thrives on love.
Most of us struggle to access the spark of our inner being. Our lifelong conditioning and negative experiences have left us challenged and looking for answers outside of ourselves. Just when we feel we progress past some obstacle, we find ourselves pulled back to an old pattern or limiting belief.
Practice allows us the safe space to acknowledge what has been and dissolve that which we are ready to release. We practice to surrender the struggle and heal our wounds. To let go of the attachments that stand in the way of who we desire to become. In any moment we can choose to create the future and shed the past. Finding our deepest truth and freedom. Becoming fully human from the inside out.
When can we practice? Always!
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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 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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Upcoming Events
Compassion and the New Normal
The University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine
Panel Three: Global Compassion
March 2, 6:00pm–7:30pm
The University of Queensland's Compassionate Mind Research Group and the Faculty of Medicine present the third session of its three-part series, "Compassion and the New Normal." The first two sessions were exceptional and the third promises a fitting finale with its three important speakers: Paul Gilbert of the Compassionate Mind Research Foundation, Liz Gilbert of the University of Edinburgh, and Peter Singer of Princeton University. Find out more.
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Upcoming Events
Compassionate Leadership in Global Health
Thursday March 11, 2021 11:00 am-12:30 pm EST (GMT -5)
This Global Health Compassion Rounds will explore the role and value of compassionate leadership in global health settings and how it can drive quality of care improvements.
Panelists will include Monica Worline, author of Awakening Compassion at work, founder & CEO of EnlivenWork, and research scientist at Stanford University as well as Laura Berland, Founder and Executive Director, and Evan Harrel, Chief Operating Officer of The Center for Compassionate Leadership.
Monica is an organizational psychologist whose work is dedicated to cultivating courageous thinking, compassionate leadership, and environment that bring people's best work to life. EnlivenWork, the social innovation organization she founded, is dedicated to creating communities, ideas, and practices that bring humanity alive at work.
Laura and Evan run the Center for Compassionate Leadership, whose mission is to advance compassionate methods of leadership by integrating best practices of modern leadership, evidence-based science, and contemplative wisdom. In partnership with FACE, they recently completed the inaugural cohort of the Compassionate Leadership and Resilience Training for Global Health Leaders. Register here.
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