By Lee Woodruff — 2021
Light exercise, breathing techniques, even smiling can improve overall wellness
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Caring for people who are suffering is a loving, even heroic calling, but it takes a toll. Roshi Joan Halifax teaches this five-step program to care for yourself while caring for others.
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We become more effective agents of change when we are nurturing our own happiness and personal growth.
When it comes to supporting employees to thrive despite the emotional fallout of the pandemic, leaders (and mindfulness) have a critical role to play.
LinkedIn’s vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. You might be surprised that one of the biggest skills needed to achieve that vision is compassion, and especially compassion in leadership.
LinkedIn’s head of mindfulness and compassion programs says, “Compassion is a strategy for long-term success.”
I recently interviewed Scott Shute, Head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn on his thoughts about compassionate leadership.
There’s a growing understanding—and resources—to allow us to take control of our minds and of our own well-being.
We all want more well-being in our lives.
As caregivers, we need to be more than problem solvers. We need to be portals to a larger possibility.
My hope is that the G.R.A.C.E. model will help you to actualize compassion in your own life and that the impact of this will ripple out to benefit the people with whom you interact each day as well as countless others.