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Compassionate Leadership Training for health and social care leaders on Monday afternoons
Compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation, and reduced staff stress, injuries and absenteeism, and even reduced patient mortality. There are six online sessions on Mondays from 9 February until 16 March. Following this, there will be monthly follow-up sessions to review our learning and practice. The dates for this are currently being organised. Overview At the heart of compassion is the notion that everyone experiences difficulty, and that we can all play a role in alleviating our own difficulties and those of others. Whether this is compassion for ourselves, the people we lead, colleagues or service users. We won’t…
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Compassionate Leadership Training programme shows great promise in delivering meaningful changes
We looked at the effectiveness of Compassionate Leadership Training (CLT) on improving the wellbeing and compassion of NHS leaders
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Leading with compassion: Transforming workplace culture
Robert Marx, co-lead for the Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion gives a talk on “Leading with Compassion: Transforming Workplace Culture” for BAMBA’s next Mindful Workplace Community event. Mindfulness and compassion-based interventions can be transformative for individuals, but lasting change requires a systemic approach. Shifting an organisation’s culture often begins with its leaders. In this event, you will:✔️ Understand some key principles underlying compassionate leadership.✔️ Have a sense of the core components and structure of the SMC Compassionate Leadership Training.✔️ Experience some compassionate leadership practices that you can use in your work.✔️ Feel inspired to develop these ideas in your organisations and…
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Lizzy West: My journey with mindfulness
Lizzy West, a Social Prescriber, describes how writing a social prescription for herself to try a mindfulness course has helped her to find inner resilience and confidence to be there for herself.
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Hannah Rudd: My journey with mindfulness
Hannah Rudd describes how a Mindful Self-Compassion course helped her to manage shame around her autism, support herself through challenges and nurture self-compassion.
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Faith and mindfulness practice
Robert Marx initiates a day long workshop to explore mindfulness, heartfulness and compassion practices from different faith traditions. Here he explains the thinking behind the day. I’m very excited to be thinking about and planning this day. In the NHS, we frequently talk about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Religion is one of the protected characteristics in the Equalities Act that often gets left out of the conversation. The NHS is rightly a totally secular organisation providing evidence-based healthcare, not religious belief and practice. And yet, it’s important to acknowledge that some of the concepts and practices directly derived from religion,…