I loved your response, Michael. And I'm so glad Darryl gave you and Caroline some extra time to love him up close and personal.
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I started by reading Laura's piece and commented that she may appreciate knowing about Krittika Sharma (https://www.maajhi.com/). Her work isn't centered on humanizing the workplace, but she is widening the opportunity for us to be thoughtful and intentional about death and dying. Putting it on your radar too, just because.
More a propos to the heart of your exchange, I also want to mention the work of Katharine Manning, author of The Empathetic Workplace. She worked for 15 years as a Senior Attorney Advisor the US Justice Department on trauma and victimization - in cases ranging from terrorism to large-scale financial fraud to child exploitation (including the Boston Marathon bombing, the Pulse nightclub and South Carolina AME church shootings, the uprising in Charlottesville, etc). https://www.katharinemanning.com/
One of the most compelling lines of her excellent book is: “If we work with people, we are working with people in trauma.” Hardly hyperbole when 70% of Americans have experienced some sort of traumatic event in their lifetimes, according to the National Council for Behavioural Health.
We absolutely need more empathic workplaces (and classrooms, and public policies, and healthcare system and economic system, etc.)
I loved your response, Michael. And I'm so glad Darryl gave you and Caroline some extra time to love him up close and personal.
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I started by reading Laura's piece and commented that she may appreciate knowing about Krittika Sharma (https://www.maajhi.com/). Her work isn't centered on humanizing the workplace, but she is widening the opportunity for us to be thoughtful and intentional about death and dying. Putting it on your radar too, just because.
More a propos to the heart of your exchange, I also want to mention the work of Katharine Manning, author of The Empathetic Workplace. She worked for 15 years as a Senior Attorney Advisor the US Justice Department on trauma and victimization - in cases ranging from terrorism to large-scale financial fraud to child exploitation (including the Boston Marathon bombing, the Pulse nightclub and South Carolina AME church shootings, the uprising in Charlottesville, etc). https://www.katharinemanning.com/
One of the most compelling lines of her excellent book is: “If we work with people, we are working with people in trauma.” Hardly hyperbole when 70% of Americans have experienced some sort of traumatic event in their lifetimes, according to the National Council for Behavioural Health.
We absolutely need more empathic workplaces (and classrooms, and public policies, and healthcare system and economic system, etc.)
Great exchange. Thanks.