Post-Gazette Story About Clasped Hands by Brenden Sager

Post-Gazette Story About Hands, Brenden Sager, July 3, 1999.

 We are a group of high-energy, dedicated, professional scholars who strive to create a new vision of organizations as sites for the development and expression of compassion. We are part of a broader community of scholars who are dedicated to developing a perspective on organizations as sites for human growth and the development of human strengths.

 

Affiliated Sites:

Positive Organizational Scholarship
an exciting new movement in organizational studies that draws on path-breaking work in the organizational and social sciences. The Positive Organizational Scholarship movement sees compassion as a central research and teaching theme for understanding how to enable organizational and individual excellence.

Toxinhandler
a site for sharing information, ideas and stories about emotional pain and compassion at work and for exploring positive leadership practices. It includes information on Peter Frost’s book Toxic Emotions at Work (Harvard Business School Press, 2003).

 
CompassionLab

Our Mission
Publications

We do high quality work on compassion in a generative setting, where we can't wait to see what comes next.

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CompassionLab Presentations

Our Principles
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 We attempt to live in alignment with what we study, and our research has an inner life as well as an outer life.
  We transform ourselves and our professional practice through the stories that we tell.
We represent organizations as vibrant and alive, and paint them in their full palette of colors.

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 We create a context in which all of our research participants can benefit from their engagement in our work.

Our Practices
We do our work in a spirit of playfulness and joy. We aim to have fun!
  We use our personal experiences of living and learning in organizations asa basis from which to understand the world.
We treat experience other than our own as a deep and valid reflection of ideas about social and organizational life.
We acknowledge that our practices are our garden--the more we tend and nourish them, the more we will flourish.
  We learn best through empathy. We are there for each other as research partners while respecting each other's boundaries.
We honor the physical and emotional aspects of learning as well as the mental ones.
We create a broad foundation for all of our work, drawing from art, literature, religion, history, culture and social theory.
  We build bridges to other work in our field, attuned to the ways in which we enable people to enter our work and to walk along with us.
  We accommodate the flux in our lives at the same time that we create high impact products.
  We aspire to represent our work in diverse forms so that it increases understanding and inspires people to see new organizational possibilities.

Our Members
  Jane Dutton, University of Michigan Business School
  Peter Frost, Sauder School of Business - In Memoriam
  Jason Kanov, College of Business and Economics, Western Washington University
  Jacoba Lilius, School of Policy Studies and School of Business, Queen's University
  Sally Maitlis, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
 

Monica Worline, Guoizeta School of Business, Emory University