As part of the research for our book, The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit:  Impact without Burnout, I have been following the various  conversations threads about self-care, avoiding burnout, compassion fatigue, and work/life balance in the nonprofit and social change sectors.   A colleague who I have worked with in the past, Aisha Moore, a health and social justice professional tweeted me from the Mindful Leadership Summit.  Kismet!   Aisha and I had worked together on a social media training project … [Read more...]

I recently joined the advisory board of the Leadership Learning Community.  Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work, facilitated by an excellent outside consultant.   Board retreats, day long meetings, can be potentially be deadly -- sitting most of the time and hearing a parade of reports.  However, this was far from it.  Not only was the work on trying to figure out outcomes (and the measures) stimulating,  we also … [Read more...]