I am thrilled to be presenting with my colleague, Ananda Leeke in Boston next week at the Resilience at Work Conference. We will be doing early morning sessions to engage participants in some mindful moment and movement exercises. I'm going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. You can practice these exercises alone or with your team. These exercises can calm you and have the added benefit of restoring focus and productivity. I also use them a … [Read more...]
5 Common Nonprofit Workplace Stress Triggers and Tips for Addressing Them
It is coming up on three years since I first published the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout and thrilled to see more people and publications talking about well-being in the nonprofit sector. As I travel around and facilitate retreats with nonprofit organizations or master classes at nonprofit conferences as well as webinars on the topic, I've noticed some common themes related to stress trigger in the nonprofit workplace. Here is they are and some tips for addressing … [Read more...]
The Nonprofit's Guide To Inclusive Walking Meetings: Strolling Meetings
Meetings can not only be a waste of time if they are not well designed, but can also zap our energy. Even worse, the meeting can be so boring that participants tune out or cancel. One way to shake things is up to host a “Strolling” Meeting. A strolling meeting is a meeting where everyone is moving – either rolling or walking – and does not have to take place inside a conference room. It is called “Strolling” (not walking) to be inclusive. People who use wheelchairs, roll instead of walk. The “S” … [Read more...]
Single Most Important Way That Nonprofit Leaders Make Personal Resilience A Habit
This week I was honored to facilitate a mini-workshop, "The Happy Healthy Woman Leader, at the Women Funded 2019 conference in San Francisco. The session was based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and covered the topics of recognizing burnout and stress, creating a self-care plan, and implementing new personal resilience habits. The participants represented a wide range including activists, funders, and nonprofits. As a trainer, I know the importance of ensuring that people take concrete … [Read more...]
Tips & Tools To Appreciate Your Nonprofit Staff and Build A Culture of Resilience
As part of my work with nonprofit organizations to help them build a culture of resilience that I wrote about in the Happy Healthy Nonprofit, I have facilitated retreats where staff brainstorm ideas and identify simple ways that they can make working at their organization more enjoyable. Two important aspects of a culture of resilience are friendship and feelings. Do people genuinely like each other? Do they feel appreciated? These are the conversations I've been facilitating at nonprofit … [Read more...]
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