Lori Schwanbeck, senior faculty member at Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, curriculum contributor and facilitator at LinkedIn, Purpose Blue, Wisdom Labs, Mindfulness Rx and the Mindfulness Training Institute, and MA in psychology, and Wisdom Labs’ Michael Taft discuss compassion and kindness in the workplace and beyond. Lori shares her definition of compassion, ways to implement compassion in the workplace, how compassion creates successful relationships, the pleasure and benefits of prosocial behavior, and why self-compassion is needed in all areas of life, including at work.
Conversation includes:
The courage of compassion, how positive action creates a kind and compassionate mindset, the need for intentional compassion, the roadblocks for compassion and kindness at work, how to practice micro-moments of compassion, the need for a purpose driven life, finding meaning in your mission, how compassion influences health and resilience, how our bodies affect our emotional experience, leveraging the best of being human, and how compassion can be inspired by awe and wonder.
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Show Notes:
1:30 – Strengthening Relationships Through Compassion
2:31 – What is Compassion?
4:36 – The Benefits of Compassion in the Workplace
5:26 – The Ripple Effect of Acts of Kindness
9:10 – Cultivating Compassion
10:21 – Examples of Everyday Compassion at Work
13:06 – Lori’s Approach to Building a Kind Company
14:28 – Purpose Matters
15:38 – Discovering and Connecting to Meaning
17:20 – How Compassion Impacts Health and Resilience
19:14 – The Embodiment Angle
22:30 – Self-Compassion
25:23 – Lori’s “Compassion in Action” Wise@Work Series
28:06 – How Awe Relates to Compassion
