Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
By Kristin Neff, PhD
Published in 2011, Self Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself remains the gold standard for work in the area of self-compassion, which is the foundation and inner ring of the Center for Compassionate Leadership’s model. For those wanting more practice, The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook was published in 2018.
Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive
By Kristin Neff, PhD
For twenty years, Kristin Neff has been a powerful advocate for self-compassion. Her 2003 research paper, “Self-Compassion: An Alternative Conceptualization of a Healthy Attitude Toward Oneself” gave birth to the research field of self-compassion, a field which now has over 3,500 published studies and counting. In 2011, her first book, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, helped the field grow to adolescence by bringing the significant body of academic research to the public. Now, with Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive, Neff brings our understanding of self-compassion into a new maturity.
Neff deftly combines the science and the wisdom of self-compassion to help us unlock our full potential. Although the book’s title expresses that it shows how women can harness the power of fierce self-compassion, this book should be read by everyone. We all have a part to play in helping women harness their fierce self-compassion powers, and everyone can deepen their understanding of the value of a fully integrated self-compassion in their life.
The Full Body Yes
By Scott Shute
Most of us distinguish the “me at work” from the “me in the rest of life.” It’s an understandable and pervasive response to our conditioning, systems, and culture. Yet the reality is that we are still one whole person, regardless of where we are operating at any given moment. COVID has hastened the timeline for more people to accept this fundamental truth.
In The Full Body Yes, Scott Shute takes us on an intimate tour of his personal life and remarkable corporate career that helps all of us appreciate how to live an integrated life of happiness, purpose, and service. He shows us by example how to love ourselves, love others, and love all of life through the lens of compassion. Along the way, we laugh and cry, feel his pain and joy, and in so doing, accept more of our own.
Scott gives us permission to explore the difficult terrain of our inner lives and demonstrates why this deep internal awareness is the key to navigate our external journey with contentment and ease. In The Full Body Yes, we learn to embrace our common humanity and compassion by wholeheartedly appreciating the gifts of this beautiful, imperfect, and messy life. As one of the few business leaders that walks the walk, Scott skillfully asserts that we can all change our work and world from the inside out. We couldn’t agree more!
Boundless Leadership: The Breakthrough Method to Realize Your Vision, Empower Others & Ignite Positive Change
by Joe Loizzo, and Elazar Aslan
Modern culture and organizations are structured based on an old – a very, very old – paradigm of survival and scarcity. If we continue in this manner, we threaten our own existence. Recent scientific discoveries coupled with wisdom that has been handed down for millennia offer us a new way of being, one where humanity can thrive and flourish together.
In Boundless Leadership: The Breakthrough Method to Realize Your Vision, Empower Others & Ignite Positive Change, Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan show us a path to move from the default survival mode of our distant ancestors to the thriving mind required of compassionate leaders to cultivate a more equitable, sustainable, and healthy world.
There is no finish line to the deepest forms of transformation, and Boundless Leadership is especially effective in focusing on the ongoing practice and process of leadership development. The book’s integration of embodied practices with heart- and mind-based practices offers a powerful means to pursue our endless growth and transformation. The boundlessness suggested by the title is dealt with in a depth that one rarely finds in leadership books.
For compassionate leaders who want to move beyond their limits, Boundless Leadership offers an important new resource for breaking through to a deeper level of awareness and presence in our leadership.
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Compassionate Leadership: Sustaining Wisdom, Humanity and Presence in Health and Social Care
by Michael A. West
Through his position at the King’s Fund and as a university professor in the UK, Michael A. West has been a leading global thinker and writer on the topics of organizational culture and compassionate leadership for decades. While his work on compassion has been largely centered on the health sector in the UK, his impact crosses all geographic and sectoral boundaries.
In Compassionate Leadership, West offers his encyclopedic knowledge of compassion, workplaces, and health and social care in a directly presented and deeply thoughtful manner. With over 500 research citations, twenty-three pages of indexed topics, and an appendix of twenty scales for measuring each of the chapter’s subject areas, Compassionate Leadership is destined to become a primary reference manual for anyone committed to compassionate leadership.
The book, however, is not primarily a reference book. West has thoughtfully covered the full scope of compassion in the book’s eleven chapters. For colleagues that have been through the Center for Compassionate Leadership’s training programs, the arc will feel very comfortable, with the book covering compassion itself, self-compassion, psychological safety, and compassionate culture.
Compassionate Leadership is a must read for leaders interested in the topic, and it is a book that leaders will want to keep close at hand as a foundational source anytime a question arises on the subject.
The Compassionate Mind
by Paul Gilbert
We humans have a highly evolved protective mechanism that is always on the lookout for threat. Perversely, in modern society, instead of protecting us, this practice can lead to anxiety and depression. Part of the solution lies in tapping into our innate ability for compassion for ourselves and for others.
In this important book, Paul Gilbert shows the science behind our behaviors and offers many exercises to support the reader’s growth of compassion for themselves and for others.
The Gifts of Compassion: How to understand and overcome suffering
By Stan Steindl
Dr. Stan Steindl, a clinical psychologist and leading academic researcher in the area of compassion, uses his abundant gifts generously in The Gifts of Compassion. Steindl’s writing is both accessible and particularly comforting when addressing challenging topics, reflective of the understanding style of a skilled clinical psychologist.
Steindl’s particular gift comes in holding together as one the frequent perceived tensions that arise in compassion work: the strength and courage required for compassionate action and the kindness and tenderness necessary to acknowledge another’s suffering, or non-judgmental awareness coupled with the judgment necessary to know how to act, for example.
The book has a companion workbook (purchased separately) allowing the reader to journal as they journey along a path of growing self-compassion and compassionate action.
The Compassionate Achiever: How Helping Others Fuels Success
By Christopher L. Kukk
In The Compassionate Achiever, Christopher Kukk, Dean of the Cormier Honors College for Citizen Scholars at Longwood University, makes a compelling case for the “survival of the kindest” by delving into the scientific and evolutionary evidence supporting compassion in individual and organizational lives.
Having made the case for compassion, the book turns to teaching a master class in compassion, showing a path to developing the four key elements of compassion: listening, understanding, knowing, and acting. These four aspects of compassion map very directly to the four components of compassion as framed at the Center for Compassionate Leadership: awareness, connection, empathy, and action.
Compassion is a very powerful practice, and this book explains the reason for compassion’s power as well as how to cultivate it.
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The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
We are at a watershed moment in business leadership, where organizations are consistently expressing the knowledge that systemic racism must be addressed. But will that knowledge lead to meaningful action.
In this business literature classic, Pfeffer and Sutton show how organizations can avoid the pitfall of substituting talking about doing something for actually doing something. They clearly explain why talk predominates, laying part of the blame at their field, business education. Then they lay out five straightforward strategies to avoid getting stuck in talk mode.
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
By Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD
Much of how we communicate can bring hurt or harm to others, which is the definition of violence. We create this harm when we express ourselves with judgment, racial bias, bullying, or in other aggressive ways. Compassionate leaders communicate in ways that connect and support others, not ways that harm, and they are able to do this in all conversations, both difficult and easeful.
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, by Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD, is a powerful guide to developing the skills and practices of communicating using empathy. His recognition of our common humanity leads us to a process that increases connection, empowers other voices, and utilizes effective language. This book is a powerful salve for our fractured world in need of so much healing today.
Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World
by Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD
How do you communicate? Are you sowing violence or cultivating peace? Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World by Marshall B. Rosenberg, can support compassionate leaders in their quest to use communication as a tool for uniting and inspiring others.
The book is based on Rosenberg’s well known principles of Non-Violent Communication, and includes an overview of the process of non-violent communication, as well as sections that address such important compassionate leadership topics as self-compassion, othering, and transforming business culture.
Communication is the primary medium for transformation of organizational culture, and compassionate leaders serious about create meaningful change are most effective when they can communicate compassionately. This book is an excellent source for leaders wishing to do just that.
Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart
by Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson, and Kimberly Myosai Loh
Are we losing our ability to communicate respectfully with each other? As communication has moved from the public square to online forums inhabited by dehumanizing trolls and a “cancel culture” that leaps to judgment with no engagement or due process, can we find a better way?
In Compassionate Conversations, the authors dig into topics as varied as power, privilege, political correctness, and bias to show us that no matter the hurdles, compassionate, productive conversations are possible for those willing to proceed with kindness and a caring recognition for the other.
Followers of philosopher Ken Wilber and his Integral Theory will be particularly attracted to the book, as his work and theory are referenced throughout, from the opening chapter’s epigraph to the conclusion of the final chapter.
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World
by Jacqueline Novogratz
In 2011, the leading impact investing firm Acumen put into words their deepest beliefs regarding investment as a tool for social change. This manifesto is a deeply needed guide during this time of increased interest in impact investing and the surging need for change in our complex and often challenged world.
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World by Acumen founder Jacqueline Novogratz is a much deeper examination of all that is behind the Acumen manifesto. Practitioners of compassionate leadership will recognize the significant overlap between Novogratz’s vision and practices and the ideas and practices of compassionate leaders.
Read the manifesto; and/or go to the book’s website.
The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results
by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter
In The Mind of the Leader, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter offer a clear, structured means for leaders to achieve greater individual engagement and create environments that are more responsive to the relational needs of today’s workplace.
The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success
by Emma Seppälä
There have been a large number of books over the last five years on the topic of happiness, including a handful of important books on the topic. This book is one of them. With The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success, Emma Seppälä, Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education and the co-director of Yale University’s Center for Emotional Intelligence, offers an extremely constructive, evidence based book for anyone seeking to live a happier life.
Through six sections on mindful presence, resilience, calmness, fun and creativity, self-compassion, and compassion for others, Seppälä explains the false ideas that trap us into choices that don’t lead to happiness, delineates the science behind what truly works, and then offers ways forward with practical strategies derived from the research. Although this book is categorized in the “self-help/success” category, Seppälä very effectively avoids what Robert Sharples has called “the subtle aggression of self-improvement.” This book is simply about recognizing how one can be happier every day while being faithful to who they are.
Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace
by Sharon Salzberg
Down to earth and practical, Real Happiness at Work guides the reader through a journey to using meditation in the workplace. Its eight chapters include topics such as integrity, concentration, and resilience. There are a total of twenty-seven exercises and meditations accompanying each chapter. This book is invaluable for anyone wanting to strengthen their compassionate leadership skills by bringing mindful practices into their work life.
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.
Salzberg is one of the great Western wisdom teachers of today, best known for sharing the practices of insight meditation and lovingkindness. She is at her best in showing us the middle path from either/or to both/and. In the final chapter of the book, “Exquisite Balance,” she shares the full power of true equanimity, which comes from her interpretation of the word as “balance born of wisdom.” It is through the cultivation of this equanimity that we can see the world as it is and not feel compelled to second guess it.
Equanimity, however, is not limited to the final chapter. It is key to much of what she writes of in Real Change, and can be seen clearly in the chapter “Grief to Resilience” as it deals with the critical challenge of holding suffering while still maintaining the energy to serve. The entire book, and this chapter especially, will be of particular value to caregivers overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Salzberg draws from her deep, deep well of understanding that comes from a life devoted to mindful practice. This book makes explicit what she has expressed elsewhere: We don’t sit on the mat to meditate, we sit on the mat to live in the world. Real Change shows how our mindfulness can lead to living more wholly in the world.
A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives
by Thupten Jinpa, PhD
A well-written book captures the spirit of its author with the words that come through on each page, which is among the most compelling reasons to read A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives. This book, written from the heart, captures the deep wisdom of one of the true compassionate leaders of our time, its author Thupten Jinpa.
The book follows his personal path as a young monk, through his thirty plus years as the principal English translator for the Dalai Lama, to his move to the west where he has emerged as an important thought leader in the compassion movement. Dr. Jinpa weaves together the latest in compassion science, deep contemplative wisdom, and practices to embody compassion. The book provides an excellent map for anyone looking to start or deepen their personal journey to live compassionately.
The Human Moment: The Positive Power of Compassion in the Workplace
by Amy Bradley
Compassion is a distinctly human activity, and The Human Moment by Amy Bradley is written for leaders who want to find ways to lead more compassionately.
Bradley makes a clear case for the need for compassion in the workplace by describing the business value for compassion, the clear costs to those who do not experience compassion in the face of difficulty, and the growth that can occur individually and organizationally when people have the courage to show personal vulnerability in a professional setting.
To bring about positive change, Bradley outlines four foundational elements of organizational compassion: organizational culture, leadership, social networks, and systems and practices. She also uses three compelling case studies of a large, a mid-size and a small company who have each been successful in creating a consciously compassionate organization.
Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
by Sharon Salzberg
Real love is something we all want. And, yet, it seems harder and harder in today’s world to make deep, authentic connections. Sharon Salzberg offers us a direct path to building habits and behaviors to deepen our connections with others. Real Love challenges the definition of love advanced in modern society and helps us understand the causes of those habits and barriers that keep us from living into real love. Each of the book’s twenty-four chapters includes practices (e.g., forgiveness, connection, self-acceptance) designed to help you bring the teaching of the book into your daily life and learn how to flex your “love muscles.”
The Power Paradox: How we gain and lose influence
by Dacher Keltner
The same attributes that cause individuals to gain power are attributes that are undermined once one has achieved a position of power. Dacher Keltner, in The Power Paradox, using research based evidence, rebuts the idea that power is primarily about force and coercion, and argues that we have missed much of the impact of power by defining power only in terms of unequal force.
The book shows how power is part of all our everyday transactions and can consistently be a positive thing. It explains convincingly the origins of power and how it can be abused and lost, and the costs of subjecting others to conditions that create powerlessness.
We all want to make a difference in the world, and this book helps us to understand how to be effective in doing so.
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
by Rhonda V. Magee with Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn
How do we live productively and peacefully in a world surrounded by people with vastly different backgrounds than our own? Human history does not offer much hope for our ability to accomplish this, but law professor Rhonda Magee does. With book sections that progress from Grounding to Seeing to Being to Doing to Liberating, Magee shows us how to recognize the profound depth of our shared common humanity and to honor that which has historically divided and separated us: our particular differences. She offers us hope that mindful practices can help us transform ourselves, and in so doing, transform the world.
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin DiAngelo
Science is clear that we are all prejudiced; that we all have biases deeply ingrained within us. Responding productively to them – in ways that help eliminate racial inequalities – requires us to acknowledge our biases and transform them. Yet, the cultural context for racism has become so binary that revealing even the slightest bit of bias can be untenable. Herein lies the Catch-22 of white fragility: we can’t create a better world without naming the biases we all have, but naming them creates an extraordinary fear among well-intentioned people of marginalization.
In White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo carefully examines the roots of the modern American racial structure and the reasons it is so difficult to acknowledge the pervasiveness of racial bias. She offers a path forward for white people to dismantle the grossly inequitable structure within which we all live.
Awakening Compassion at Work: The Quiet Power that Elevates People and Organizations
by Monica C. Worline, Jane E. Dutton, with a foreword by Raj Sisodia
For anyone looking to create organizational compassion, this book is the starting point. Drs. Worline and Dutton have devoted their careers to leading research in the field of compassion in organizations.
While there are many resources for those who would like to develop individual compassion, embedding compassion in organizations is more challenging.
Awakening Compassion at Work is a call to action for organizations to recognize the importance of compassion at work, and it clearly illuminates the process of awakening compassion, developing compassion skills, and building those skills directly into organizational culture and practice.
The Fearless Organization
by Amy C. Edmondson
Research shows that the single most important factor leading to successful team performance is psychological safety. The Fearless Organization explains the importance of psychological safety, the risks of not offering it in the workplace, and gives a practical framework for creating work environments for successful organizations.
Carefully researched with plenty of research resources, this book arose out of Edmondson’s groundbreaking research around medical errors and environments that lead to improved medical outcomes.
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Compassionomics: The revolutionary scientific evidence that caring makes a difference
By Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH and Anthony Mazzarelli, MD, JD
If you are looking for proof that compassion and caring make a positive difference in outcomes, Compassionomics provides more than enough evidence-based confirmation. With a pure focus on compassion in the medical industry, Trzeciak and Mazzarelli begin by making a persuasive case for why we need more compassion today, and why compassion matters. This is followed up with chapters that focus on the value of compassion for patients as well as for medical care providers and organizations. We all have much to learn from this deep dive in the medical sector, and seek to apply these findings into a multitude of organizations.
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The Power of Human: How our shared humanity can help us create a better world
By Adam Waytz
Dehumanization is “the failure to consider others as having minds capable of thinking and feeling.” Unfortunately, due to our deep evolutionary history, we each have the capacity to dehumanize others. Between our substitution of technological screens for face-to-face human interaction, and the ascension of political practices exploiting our dehumanizing capabilities, we have seen a significant upswing in dehumanizing behaviors.
The answer, according to The Power of Human, is “seeing human,” which is “considering others as having minds capable of thinking and feeling.” Having made the case for the need to “see human,” Waytz proceeds to show how important being human is by creating significance in daily life, supporting moral care, and motivating positive action. Then, he teaches how to do that in our interactions at work, with technology, with those with whom we are in conflict, and with those close to us.
This book is an important tool that we can all use to help us heal the societal fractures we are experiencing today.
inward
by Yung Pueblo
In these challenging times of crisis and uncertainty, find comfort and solid ground in the timeless words of Yung Pueblo (pen name for Diego Perez.) This small but mighty volume speaks to us from a well of deep truth, awareness, courage, and compassion. He shares profound insights on love, hate, pain, happiness, nature, ego, letting go, consciousness, growth, peace, transformation, and freedom.
Many may know Yung Pueblo from his massive Instagram account. His postings on Insta and the beautiful verses in the book bear witness to his soul, and therefore each of ours. As a writer and speaker, Yung Pueblo speaks to basic human truths from the inside out - start with yourself, and from that centered place relate to others, and the greater whole.
For leaders, the dance between power and humility, and moving from a place of open-hearted awareness, are key takeaways. Although first published in 2017, this particular verse is especially relevant for us today, “I want to live in a world where harm is not systemic, where love organizes society, where the earth is respected, and where life is valued above all else.”
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Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader
By Marc Lesser
Marc Lesser, co-founder of the Search Insider Yourself Leadership Institute inside Google, has written a book worthy of a Zen leader. It is simple at first glance, but you can go much more deeply as you consider the wisdom within.
The seven practices are divided into three sections. The first four practices, in the section “Investigate,” lead a leader to a deeper awareness of their present circumstances. The next two practices, in the section “Connect,” focus on relationships with others and the world as a whole. The final practice, “Integrate,” teaches integration of all the prior practices into an interwoven life of mindfulness.
Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader is a book that can be read quickly. But you might consider allowing the wisdom to seep in, with a slow and thoughtful approach, or read it a number of times, discovering new depth with each new pass at the practices.
Altruism
by Mathieu Ricard
What do you get when someone with a molecular genetics PhD becomes a Buddhist Monk and then devotes five years to the research of altruism? You get this beautifully written 850 page tome, with enough information on altruism that it could rightly have been titled The Encyclopedia of Altruism if the author had chosen.
Laid out in a straightforward fashion, the five sections of the book cover the definition and philosphical underpinnings of altruism; the history of altruism; how to practice altruism; the counter-forces against altruism and how to avoid/resist/rebut them; and, using altruism to build a better world. After reading the 700 pages of lucid text, additional research is largely unnecessary, but just in case, the book includes 131 pages of footnotes and a bibliography of approximately 250 titles.
The Empathy Effect
by Helen Riess, MD, with Liz Neporent
When patients are treated with empathy and respect, they have better health outcomes. The Empathy Effect offers tools to increase your capacity for empathy. She offers seven key skills from eye contact to your response, with the convenient acronym E.M.P.A.T.H.Y®, that will help anyone create stronger emotional connections.
Emotional Intelligence
by Daniel Goleman
Twenty-five years ago, Daniel Goleman dared to challenge the widely accepted idea that IQ was the defining measure of intelligence and introduced the concept of “emotional intelligence.” Looking back over those twenty-five years, one can see the impact that this book has had on management theory, on education, and on the significant rise of mindfulness and compassion throughout.
Emotional Intelligence was published near the end of Goleman’s twelve-year career of writing on psychology and the brain at the New York Times. One can see the journalist’s influence in the book: it is written clearly, well researched, and handles complex subjects in ways that make them accessible to readers without a technical grounding in the area.
Although the term “compassion” rarely appears in the book, the chapter on empathy covers important foundations of compassion research. It is also worth saying that the foundational ideas covered in Emotional Intelligence are central to an understanding of the importance and practice of compassion.
Radical Compassion
by Tara Brach
In Radical Compassion, Tara Brach, PhD, takes us on a gentle, yet skillfully guided path to embrace our self-compassion, compassion for others, and for all beings. Brach, founder of the Insight Meditation Center in Washington, DC, host of a popular weekly podcast, and author of best-sellers Radical Acceptance and True Refuge, brings her relatable presence and experiences into her latest release.
Brach helps us awaken our compassion in everyday situations when we get stuck with difficult emotions and our own suffering. She writes “I have to love myself into healing. The only path that can carry me home is the path of self-compassion.” Through stories, practices, and reflections, Brach encourages us to find our own path home. Using the RAIN (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) process she has popularized and updated, we are offered the simple and powerful tools to open up to our basic goodness with kindness and love.
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Toxic Emotions at Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict
by Peter J. Frost.
In an early (2003) and important work on the use of compassionate leadership, Peter Frost shines a light on what has all too often been an unaddressed “elephant in the conference room” — emotional pain in the workplace. The author shows how emotional pain is inevitable in the workplace, and argues that most companies respond informally, or not at all, which leads to a wide range of negative outcomes. By responding compassionately, organizations can instead transform emotional pain into positive changes. The book describes specific skills required to respond compassionately, and steps that can be taken to create a culture of compassion.
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Choosing Life: The Practice of Compassionate Communications
by Richard Broadbent
Choosing Life is a “practical exploration of how and why others hear us as they do, and why we hear others as we do.” Through nine chapters of thoughtful practice, the book leads the reader through three sessions of introspection, three sessions of communication in relationship, and three sessions to bring the reader into alignment with his or her true self.
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Compassionate Leadership: Creating Places of Belonging
by Chris Whitehead
Compassionate Leadership covers an exceptionally comprehensive amount of territory related to compassionate leadership, and does so in a well-structured manner. The book follows a model which is quite consistent with our model at the Center for Compassionate Leadership, includes quick summaries of each chapter as well as external resources for going deeper on each topic.
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