On feelings
Emotional intelligence is at the core of what we do. How can we expand our emotional intelligence quotient, and in doing so connect to our own reserves of emotional energy?
Tara Brach leads a Guided Meditation: The Practice of RAIN
The acronym RAIN – Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture – guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions. With practice, we can find our way home to open-hearted presence in the midst of whatever arises.
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Tara Brach on the RAIN of Self-Compassion (Explainer for the video above)
This talk explores three key features of the trance of unworthiness and introduces a guided meditation based on a new version of the acronym RAIN that awakens self-compassion and de-conditions the suffering of being at war with ourselves.
Tara Brach Youtube Channel
(1981) AUDRE LORDE, “THE USES OF ANGER: WOMEN RESPONDING TO RACISM”
Audre Lorde’s grounding keynote presentation from June 1981, at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Storrs, Connecticut.
Blackpast
We don’t just feel emotions. We make them.
Have you ever wondered just what emotion are? This podcast investigates emotions, from the biological hardwiring that underpins them to the almost miraculous way our minds interpret and express them.
The Ezra Klein Show
Emotional intelligence
Sometimes the simplest resource offers the greatest insights. This Wikipedia article gives a definition of emotional intelligence in addition to further links related to understanding and expanding it.
Wikipedia
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
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