by The Center for Transforming Engagement | Sep 20, 2024 | Growth, Leaders, Resilience
Our ability to empathize is what makes us uniquely human. But without healthy boundaries or self-care, we can push our empathy to the limit, putting ourselves at risk of compassion fatigue. Also known as empathy fatigue, this a very real issue for many professionals –...
by Rose Madrid Swetman | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog, Resilience
“A Rule of Life is descriptive in that it articulates our intentions and defines the ways in which we want to live. When we fall short of these intentions, the Rule of Life becomes prescriptive, showing us how we can return to the path that we have set for ourselves...
by Andrea Sielaff | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog, Resilience, Trauma
I live near Seattle, one of the first places in the US that COVID-19 hit hard. The first time I went to the grocery store after we all started to get a sense of the magnitude of this crisis, I took pictures of empty shelves where rice, flour, and chicken had been, as...
by Andrea Sielaff | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog, Growth, Resilience
When I was in college, a speaker at a conference showed a clip from the movie Instinct as an illustration for her talk. The visceral impact of that scene has stayed with me across the years and keeps coming to mind whenever I feel a lack of control in the midst of...
by Kate Rae Davis | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog, Resilience
This is what we get wrong about resilience and wellbeing: it’s not just about individual behaviors and practices. It has much, much more to do with what we call place — the context, culture, and environment in which we live and work and have our being. In the shared...
by Center for Transforming Engagement | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog, Relationship, Resilience
This article is part one of a three-part series covering the three components that we, The Center for Transforming Engagement, have identified that help people to remain resiliently flexible. (you can find parts two and three by clicking the links below) 1. Peers who...