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Follow-Up
Session 2
Wise Compassion
Consider how to design for compassion, and to add wisdom to your practice for effective leadership.
HOMEWORK
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Choose one of the nine Designing for Compassion focus areas.
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Connect through care
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Lower the cost of empathy
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Mitigate persistent sources 
of suffering
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Build for thriving
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Evoke generous 
understanding of suffering
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Team to improve inclusiveness
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Encourage playfulness
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Start simple but hold the complex
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Support improvisation
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Interpreting your choice in any way that makes sense to you, create a collaborative way for you — and others! — to design for compassion.
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Prepare to share back in our next session.
BONUS - Explore "Lovingkindness" (metta)
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Watch "How Mindfulness Changes the Emotional Life of our Brains"
Richard Davidson (TED)
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Experience a LovingKindness meditation
Sylvia Boorstein (OnBeing)
Key Content
Go Deeper
ARTICLES
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Connect with Empathy, But Lead with Compassion
Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, and Marissa Afton
AUDIO
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All There Is, with Anderson Cooper
(podcast)
THOUGHT LEADERS
LEADING WITH COMPASSION
NOTE — some resources may require a subscription to access
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