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How to Help Co-Create an End to Racial Injustice
By Due Quach, guest contributor
As cries for ending racial injustice and police brutality continuously resound across the country, people are making clear that it is time for the changes demanded by the Civil Rights Movement for over 60 years to finally become reality. Tragically, the pace of structural and legislative reform to address systemic racism has been slowed by how mindlessness, inertia, and complacency preserve the status quo. Because the cost and suffering from waiting are too great…
Resources to Help You Deepen Your Understanding of Racism
By The Mindful Leader Team
Resources from the mindfulness community:
Leading Social Transformation: The Inner Work of Racial Justice with Rhonda Magee
SIYLI
Anti-Racist Resources from Greater Good
Greater Good
The Untold - What White People Can do with Privilege
Ruth King
An Open Letter to Humanity
Michelle L. Maldonado
Think meditation could help cope with microaggressions? There’s an app for that.
Washington Post
Anti-racism in your company:
Shaping Our Presence to Be More Supportive
By Joy Reichart, New Ventures West, guest contributor
In these days of heightened anxiety and insecurity, many of us are drawn to be a safe and reassuring space for those who are in crisis and afraid. And, when we’re in that often unavoidable place ourselves, we’re grateful to the folks who can hold that kind of space for us.
What is it about the people by whom we feel most comforted? What is awake in us—consciously or otherwise—when we are feeling truly available to emotionally support others…
Challenges of Strategic Leadership: Mastering Executive Functions
By Art Kleiner, Jeffrey M. Schwartz, and Josie Thomson, guest contributors
This is part of a series. You can find the first article here.
Strategic leadership is the ability to handle complex problems: where there is no obvious or facile solution, the stakes are high, and collaboration with others is essential. In this series for Mindful Leader, we are exploring the seven challenges, based in the mind and brain, which strategic leaders can expect to face as they move through their careers.
…A Little Too Much Truth: A Candid Conversation between a CEO & a Chief Diversity Officer
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Witness Naropa University’s President, Chuck Lief, and Chief Diversity Officer, Regina Smith, as they ask each other the tough questions about how identity informs their work, and that organizational leaders often avoid. This fierce and compassionate conversation demonstrates the fearlessness that is a trademark of leaders who are rooted in mindfulness practice, principles, & presence. This video was recorded at the 2018 Mindful Leadership Summit.
How to Overcome Burnout with a Self-Care Plan
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Shelly Tygielski shares how to create a Self-Care Plan to address burnout and provides approaches on how to build self-care in community settings at @Work 2019. Shelly explains how many people may not realize they are burned out because they do not know the signs of burnout. To recover from burnout, Shelly illustrates ways to conduct self-care in community, by identifying categories, establishing groups, and allowing for people to express their obstacles and…
Improve Learning Agility with Mindfulness
By Andy Lee, guest contributor
In 1988, the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) published a book that transformed how people thought about leadership development. In The Lessons of Experience, the authors proposed that based on their research, the most important source of professional growth is not training programs or even mentoring relationships, but rather the insights that result from on-the-job experience. They captured this lesson in the 70-20-10 prescription for leadership development, …
Feeling Helpless During COVID-19? Try This
By Dr. Christopher Willard, guest contributor
This pandemic is and will continue to be a traumatic time. While some of us may be relatively comfortable and secure for now, others are facing illness and loss of friends, family, and finances, yet none of us is spared the incredible disruption of this time.
Trauma can mean many things, and our reactions to it vary. Yet one aspect of how humans react to trauma recently surprised me in my research—more of us experience posttraumatic growth than it…
Social Isolation as a Mindfulness Retreat
By Gayle Van Gils, guest contributor
“Raw, vulnerable, ungrounded, and exposed” – these are feelings I have been having since working alone in social isolation. In coaching conversations with clients and masterclasses with colleagues, I have been hearing these same words over and over. They made me reflect on the interesting fact that these feelings are so similar to the condition that I find myself in several days into an immersive meditation retreat. In fact, much of my personal experience of…
Create Open Heart Connections at Work with Mindfulness
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Susan Piver shares her journey of being a meditation teacher and author at Mindfulness @Work 2019. She explains and contrasts the difference between mindfulness, meditation & compassion. She reframes compassion as a fierce, brave, and courageous act, rather than the connotation of being soft or “nice”. According to Susan, the most important part of meditation is not what happens on the cushion, but how to bring this meditative sense into daily life and how w…