| Links to Other Helpful Websites for Leadership and Compassion |
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have found several generative links to people and to organizations whose
work helps deepen understanding of the importance of the role of compassion
in the way lives are lived, practices are enacted, and others are encountered
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Leading in Trying Times. Business and psychology professors at the University of Michigan have prepared essays based on their research on how organizations foster human strength and resiliency in employees, facilitate healing and restoration, and cultivate extraordinary individual and organizational performance. HeartMath LLC is an organization that aims to improve people's performance and well-being at work through the development of programs that help people cope with the chaos of modern life. Its work is focused on understanding connections between emotions, rhythms of the heart and brain function. The Fetzer Institute is a non-profit operating foundation committed to supporting research and practices that promote health and wholeness in society. This web site has information about a variety of ongoing research, education and service programs as well as links to other organizations with similar values. The Center for Nonviolent Communication is a non-profit organization that seeks to strengthen people's capacity to compassionately connect with and relate to others through nonviolent communication practices. Commonweal is a non-profit health and environmental research institute that has a variety of programs and resources centered on healing. Goodthings is an online community where people can share positive, constructive, creative ideas and experiences. This website offers stories and guidance about making a positive difference in the world and it has specific links to organizations involved with the relief effort of the tragedies of September 11th. This link will take you to the homepage of the Association for the Study and Development of Community, a research and development organization for community capacity building and social problem solving.
This web page was compiled by an activist group called Cafeunderground and lists a number of links to other sites of compassion. In 1988, Wayne Muller founded Bread for the Journey to serve people and communities in need. He and is colleagues try to form helpful relationships with those who seek to serve their communities. They provide a small amount of help from Bread for the Journey, and from this support for others' compassionate intentions flow day care centers, food banks, youth programs, community centers, and mentoring programs. David Whyte's poetry and prose is distributed through Many Rivers Company in Langley, Washington, USA. His writings and presentations to corporations and to the public provide a poet's imagination of a world of work in which people are deeply connected to their own creativity and to a caring and attentive communal life. The Esalen
Institute was founded in 1962 as an alternative educational center devoted
to the exploration of what Aldous Huxley called the "human potential,"
the world of unrealized human capacities that lies beyond the imagination.
Esalen has became known for its blend of East/West philosophies, its experiential/didactic
workshops, the steady influx of philosophers, psychologists, artists,
and religious thinkers, and its breathtaking grounds blessed with natural
hot springs.
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