Hello, my name is Dr Anna Pittman and I
have created the Human Potential Program for Professionals. This
video is on compassion and um wow, this is another
big topic where we look at how I how I
learned to extend my care out into the world.
Being loved is actually good at work. If people
like me, they're going to want to work with
me, this is a good thing, So I
want to be able to understand you, I want
to be able to feel you, I want to
be able to help you. Compassion is where we
move from being independent, isolated and we move into
being interdependent where we all work together. Compassion also
requires that I have a certain level of vulnerability.
And we know that if I am vulnerable, which
means I'm authentic and open with healthy boundaries, I'm
trustworthy and in the absence of trust, we discover
that we fear conflict. We we lack commitment,
we avoid accountability, ultimately we stop plugging in and
in the workplace we talk about even things like compassion
fatigue and compassion negligence, but truthfully compassion is
endless. We can have an endless amount of heartfelt
compassion for people who are suffering and for each other.
Um but it's the boundaries we have around how
we express that compassion that can create difficulty. So
we look at boundaries, co dependency, we even
look at conditioned responses to both anger and too strong
emotions that may come up. The tricksters to compassion,
our anger and grief. I think that I have
seen that we have a pretty, a national
allergy if you will to feeling into our emotions.
And um if we can't feel into these emotions we
start to lack empathy and we start to lack compassion.
This is a real issue in our culture now.
We're afraid of painful emotions and so we're afraid
to contact our heart and then in turn we lack
connection. So we look at the various personal triggers.
We look at our history with compassion and we
develop skill sets that allow us to be in a
healthy relationship with one another at work. And believe
me, the relationships we have at work can be
very similar to the relationships that we have at home.
So I'm sure you'll find this information very
helpful. Thank you so much for listening. Check
out the other videos. I look forward to hearing from you.
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