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197. Summer Happy Hour: Compassion shot - People Colada

August 09, 2024 • Season 16 • Episode 197

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Welcome to our Summer Happy hour - where learning is free and there’s enough for everyone!

Come join us for a 10 min shot to refresh and reset your intention, delicious content mixed with some cool beach bar music vibes.

And this week’s cocktail no2 is People Colada which is a blend of practical ideas for bringing or creating more compassion in our work life. Whether for yourself or your team, we mix a shot of creating belonging with a squeeze of emotional intelligence and served with a slice of colleague engagement and retention. Ideal sundowner for those wanting a supportive and inspirational pep talk.

Liking the summer vibe? Check out our GROWTH Summer School from 2022:
Ep. 97 G is for Growth Mindset
Ep. 98 R is for Relationships
Ep. 99 O is for Optimism
Ep. 100 W is for Wellness
Ep 101 T is for Teamship
Ep. 102 H is for Harmony

Speaker 1: 0:03

secrets from a coach thrive and maximize your potential in the evolving workplace. Your weekly podcast with debbie green of wishfish and laura thompson, stavely of phenomenal training devs law.

Speaker 2: 0:31

Welcome back, welcome back. I'm enjoying our happy hour me too. I think it's working really well, actually, lauren definitely loads of food for thought, right?

Speaker 1: 0:34

definitely so. We thought we'd take a slightly quirky approach just to freshen things up over summer, which, for many of us, is often a time where we get some moments to reset, recharge, refresh ourselves. Last episode, we looked at all things to do with motivation Mojo, mojito and this week's cocktail. We invite you to join with us on a quick shot of hints and tips around compassion, and we've called this one a people collada. So, debs, what's your take on compassion? What does that mean for us to be able to bring compassion to our work?

Speaker 2: 1:10

I think compassion is something that can get overlooked quite a lot, and I think that ability to have compassion for self as well as others starts with us, though. So if we want to live what we call a compassionate existence with effortless presence, we have to look after the four cornerstones that make us a human. So, as long as we are thinking about, over the next couple of weeks and beyond the summer into the winter, what will I do to look after both my physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health in order that I can live a compassionate existence? So what do I mean by that? So physical? If you're laying on that sun lounger and you haven't moved for the last hour, then get up and do a bit of a five minute walk around the pool or along the beach or up the mountains, wherever you happen to be. Physically move and change your state, because that enables our bodies and our minds and our soul to just reconnect with something else. So I think the physical side of it is super important. In relation to that. I think also the emotional side of it. If you are feeling something, acknowledge that feeling for what it is and enable yourself to just to go with it. Don't maybe fight it, but you might have to address it and just acknowledge that that feeling is there and then give yourself an option as to whether you want to do something about it or not. So, acknowledge any emotions that you might have and knowing that no feeling is final, as you always say as well, so knowing that this too shall pass, but actually being in that moment with it enables you to connect better with self. So I think that's from an emotional perspective, from that mental aspect.

Speaker 2: 2:46

I think that bit. What are you still going to do to keep your mind active? So what are you going to do to mentally stimulate what's going on for you? I think summer's a great time to read that book that you've always been meaning to read, or take some podcasts and listen into that you can listen into our house, by the way, but it's that ability to stimulate that mental matter so that you're maybe learning something, because we're all growing and learning. So it might be your opportunity to do that.

Speaker 2: 3:14

And the last bit, the spiritual side, is about what is it that's going to fuel your soul, what is it that's going to give you purpose? What is it that's going to make you just vibe on the energy that sits all around you, and I think that's really important that you do something that feeds your soul over the summer months as well. So that can be anything. People do meditation, people will go and do yoga retreats or they will do something that ensures that they are looking after their whole self. So, as we said, compassion is around looking after ourselves from a position of mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being and health benefits that enable our mind health to be the best that it can be. So that would be my little shot around being compassionate.

Speaker 1: 4:00

Love it, debs. And is there, you know? Is it ever too late to start? Is there ever a time where we think, oh well, you know, I've had more summers behind me than I have in front of me. It's too, late to start doing this what would your advice?

Speaker 2: 4:14

be for taking action. It doesn't matter whether you're at the very beginning, in the middle or coming towards the end, or even have retired. I think you can always do something that enables you to show compassion for self, but also show compassion and kindness to others. Never too late to start that. We can all do it if we put our thoughts and our minds to it for sure.

Speaker 1: 4:39

Oh, I love it, Daves. They say no one can go back and make a new beginning, but anyone can start to make a new ending.

Speaker 2: 4:45

Yes, exactly. Oh, that's nice Might drop there.

Speaker 1: 4:48

I love that you might drop, debs, that beautiful sentence you said at the start compassionate existence with effortless presence.

Speaker 2: 4:56

It shouldn't feel like hard work to be compassion, to show compassion for self and others. It shouldn't feel like it's a chore. Oh God, here I go again. If it feels that, then that's false. It's not being congruent with who you are, you're not being authentic with self. So I think that effortless presence, it just comes, it just happens, it just manifests itself. It can make a huge difference. Otherwise you were forcing it and therefore we're not committing to it. So therefore we're not being compassionate to self or being kind, and potentially not to others either.

Speaker 1: 5:28

Yeah, so, as we're sort of sitting here in summer mode and we're sort of thinking about all these things that we could put on the horizon, if we've got, you know, some thinking time and a little bit of space to freshen things up and nature gives us summer, it's the chance actually for some things to really then come out, and then there's a new sense of, you know, the harvest and all that kind of stuff with it. So what have you seen in some workplaces where you think, yes, actually that's some great examples of compassion being brought out in either the leadership approach or the way in which the organisation has been set up. So what have you seen in some of the most compassionate organisations that maybe we could other organisations could borrow and role model?

Speaker 2: 6:08

I think there's been a few, actually, certainly over the last couple of months, sort of from beginning of the year, that have really come to the fore, just that opportunity to create listening groups. So some leaders have been creating just listen, I'm just here to listen, you know. They obviously will, you know, share what they're thinking and give some guidance, advice or coaching. But they've purposefully set up meetings or conversations which have got no agenda, so they're just purely listening. Whatever that person wants to bring into that conversation, they can bring it in. And over the last sort of six months one company in particular you've seen people really embrace that and they just love it. They're no more than 20 minutes that people have got used to the fact that, oh my God, I've going to have just quality time with somebody and we're not actually talking about work. If that person wants to bring work, they can.

Speaker 2: 6:57

But what the leaders have said is that people started to talk about tasks, then it went into relational and now it's just a general nice to know about them. So they're getting under the surface of their people. So I think that took a compassionate heart to even want to go there and not worry about the work at all. So I think that's cool. And then another organization has given something back by enabling people to go out into their local communities and work in whatever sector they want to work in. But it has to be giving something back, so, and people have just embraced that and they've made that happen. It's not like only when you have time there's time set aside for people to go and do that. So, yeah, simple things but work amazingly.

Speaker 1: 7:40

Wow, Gosh, thank you so much. So, as you're sitting there in your summer, we hope you've enjoyed this happy hour with us. Last week we went to the bar and we invited you to share in a mojo mojito. We looked at motivation. This week's tipple alcoholic or non-alcoholic, has been around compassion, people, colada. So I hope you've enjoyed this shot with us. Debs, if there was a call to action that you would suggest to put on the radar for when business as usual kind of kicks in again, what are you thinking? Once summer is over, what might be a really useful call to action that brings out this compassion?

Speaker 2: 8:15

I think if you've felt it, you'll know if you felt it by the way, because you'll have more of a freedom, a free spirit. Hold on to what that feeling looks like and then weave that into your everyday when you're back. How will you create that free spirit moment?

Speaker 1: 8:40

effortless presence. What might that mean for your day ahead right now? And we wish you well, whether it's sun lounger, whether it's shift worker, wherever you happen to be this summer. We wish you every success and we'll see you at our next happy hour.

Speaker 2: 8:49

See you then, laura. See you at the bar, debs, bye, all right then, bye.

Speaker 1: 8:55

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