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Episode 12 - Compassion, Actually

Show Notes

When you help people help, you help people hope. Gillian Coutts, Country Director at Potential Project discovered this when working within her community during Australia's border closing following the COVID outbreak. In her work, she saw teams come together in extraordinary ways, but she also shares findings from a UK study that has been replicated elsewhere, that show how we often see ourselves as having compassion, but not our neighbours. In her discussion with Pia and Dan, Gillian explores the differences between empathy and compassion, and the importance of self-compassion to resilience.

Meet the guests

As the Australian Country Director of Potential -a world-leading provider of organisational development and leadership solutions based on mind training . Gillian is the co-author of One Second Ahead – Enhance Your Performance at Work With Mindfulness and was strategic advisor and researcher for the best-selling book The Mind of the Leader – How to Lead Yourself, Your People and Your Organisation for Extraordinary Results published by Harvard Business Review Press. With a background as a leader and change agent in the sales and operations functions of large corporations and a diagnosis of breast Cancer in 2010 propelled Gillian into exploring a new way of working and a more sustainable way of being. Gillian’s purpose is to support people who care for people, and equip organisations and their leaders with the mind skills to remain focused, kind and effective to achieve important amidst the overwhelm of modern work/life.