Watch this episode to learn how quantum physics + empathy can raise our collective consciousness.

Kathryn Pavlovich, a Professor of Strategic Management in New Zealand is passionate about global systems change. In this episode, she explains how principles of quantum physics can be leveraged to address the world’s empathy deficit. She also offers her thoughts on capitalism and how a new set of values and practices are needed more than ever.

00:00 Introduction

00:27 About Kathryn Pavlovich

01:46 An excerpt from Kathryn’s article

03:18 A critique of capitalism

06:31 Why is mindfulness so important?

10:13 Have organizations discovered the importance of contemplative practices?

11:38 What is quantum physics?

15:36 If the potential of human consciousness is realized, will hegemonic forces impede our collective progress?

17:37 What is quantum empathy?

22:24 The relationship between quantum empathy and anxiety

24:52 What can we do to align with the frequency of quantum empathy?

25:57 How can we organize society differently?

27:23 How Kathryn’s work on quantum empathy has impacted her personally

29:09 Kathryn’s Purposeful Empathy Story

32:17 Conclusion

Quantum empathy: an alternative narrative for global transcendence: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14766086.2019.1706626

CONNECT WITH KATHRYN

✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-pavlovich-204071a/

CONNECT WITH ANITA

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This episode was brought to you by Grand Heron International

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To watch the video with subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC78vaeHVmoxebZCYtqsKe0A

Video Edited by David Tsvariani

Watch this episode to learn how empathy can help end the stigma of mental illness.

Jason Finucan, founder of StigmaZero, helps organizations manage mental health in the workplace. In this episode, he shares how he transitioned from battling his own mental illness to becoming a mental health advocate. He also offers practical advice to managers who want to create a zero-stigma workplace culture, especially post-pandemic.

00:00 Introduction

00:28 About Jason Finucan

01:11 How and why Jason transitioned from battling his own mental illness to becoming a mental health advocate and “Stigma fighter”

06:05 How to practice empathy for those living with a mental illness

10:10 About StigmaZero

14:15 A recent success of StigmaZero

18:44 Jason’s advice for managers to prioritize mental health, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

23:17 How to proactively create a workplace where wellness thrives

26:08 Jason’s Purposeful Empathy Story

29:45 Conclusion

CONNECT WITH JASON

✩ Stigma Zero www.stigmazero.com

✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonfinucan/

CONNECT WITH ANITA

✩ Email [email protected]

✩ Website https://www.anitanowak.com/

✩ LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/anitanowak

✩ Instagram https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram

✩ Twitter https://twitter.com/anitanowak21

✩ Facebook Page https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyFacebook

✩ Facebook Group https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyCommunity

✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast

This episode was brought to you by Grand Heron International

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To watch the video with subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC78vaeHVmoxebZCYtqsKe0A

Video Edited by David Tsvariani

Watch this episode to learn how organizations are dynamic, self-organizing living systems.

Michelle Holliday, author of The Age of Thrivability, helps organizations and the people who work in them thrive, by borrowing lessons from the natural world. In this episode, she describes the connection between thrivability and purposeful empathy and shares the potential that’s unleashed when leaders allow life to thrive within their teams.

00:00 Introduction

00:28 About Michelle Holliday

02:05 What is thrivability and why is it important?

05:17 What happens when we view things mechanistically?

08:05 What are the design principles of thrivability?

11:11 Michelle’s corporate experience

12:55 Is the world catching on to the potential of thrivability?

14:36 Is Michelle hopeful for the future?

15:15 What is the connection between purposeful empathy and thrivability?

18:04 Michelle shares an example of how thrivability changed Montreal’s Espace Pour la Vie

23:49 Advice to organizations and leaders on how to practice thrivability

27:21 Michelle describes why “thinking like a mother” is better than shareholder and stakeholder capitalism

30:52 Michelle’s Purposeful Empathy Story

32:40 Conclusion

Think Like a Mother (Or: Why Stakeholder Capitalism is a Dangerous Concept):

https://michelleholliday.com/think-like-a-mother-or-why-stakeholder-capitalism-is-a-dangerous-concept/

To watch the video with subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC78vaeHVmoxebZCYtqsKe0A

CONNECT WITH MICHELLE

✩ Website: Michelleholliday.com

✩ Age of Thrivability: Ageofthrivability.com

✩ Thrivable World: thrivableworld.mn.co

CONNECT WITH ANITA

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This episode was brought to you by Grand Heron International

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Watch this episode to learn how social pedagogy can help counter hate and the epidemic of “othering."

Dr. Vivek Venkatesh is the UNESCO Co-Chair in Prevention of Radicalization and Violent Extremism at Concordia University. In this episode, he speaks about losing his cousin, Sukumar, to an act of terrorism, and how that event catalyzed some of deep inner work and continues to fuel his current passion as a filmmaker, musician, multimedia artist, curator, and applied learning scientist working at the intersection of public pedagogy and critical digital literacy.

0:30 About Vivek Venkatesh

01:55 Vivek’s story about losing his cousin, Sukumar, to an act of terrorism

06:50 Having empathy for people who have lost loved ones to acts of terrorism

09:38 Vivek explains how “resilience to hate comes from accepting ‘the other’ within ourselves.”

13:07 What is social pedagogy and how can it counter the epidemic of othering?

14:56 About Project SOMEONE

20:25 How Vivek’s musical bands (Landscape of Hate and Landscape of Hope) challenge conceptions of hate

To watch the video with subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC78vaeHVmoxebZCYtqsKe0A

CONNECT WITH VIVEK

✩ Life after hate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylxDwziIYwA

✩ Project SOMEONE’s Website: https://projectsomeone.ca

✩ Project SOMEONE’s Twitter:  @projectsomeone

✩ Chaire UNESCO-PREV’s Website:  https://chaireunesco-prev.ca

✩ Chaire UNESCO-PREV’s Twitter:  @unescoprev

CONNECT WITH ANITA

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✩ Facebook Page https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyFacebook

✩ Facebook Group https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyCommunity

✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast

This episode was brought to you by Grand Heron International

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Video Edited by David Tsvariani

Watch this episode to learn how to cultivate and practice empathy on social technology platforms.

Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips is a journalist and the author of The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World. In this episode, she describes the challenges to empathy perpetuated by social technology and offers advice to users, creators, and managers of these platforms on how to imbue them with greater empathy.

Equity Centered Design Framework:

https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources/equity-centered-design-framework

CONNECT WITH KAITLIN

✩ Website: http://www.kaitlinugolik.com/about

✩ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kaitlinugolik

✩ Kaitlin’s Picture Credits: http://redbridgephoto.com/

CONNECT WITH ANITA

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✩ Facebook Page https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyFacebook

✩ Facebook Group https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyCommunity

✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast

This episode was brought to you by Grand Heron International

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Video Edited by David Tsvariani

Watch this episode to understand why empathy is fundamental to creativity.

Mimi Nicklin is the host of a popular weekly podcast called Empathy for Breakfast and author of Softening the Edge, a book that argues empathy is humanity’s oldest leadership skill. In this episode, she describes what’s at stake in the face of our global empathy deficit and how empathy has the power to unlock our creativity and kindness.

Listen to the audio version here: https://anchor.fm/anita-nowak

CONNECT WITH MIMI

✩ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/miminicklinleadership

✩ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miminicklin/

✩ Website www.miminicklin.com

✩ Softening the Edge:

https://www.amazon.ae/Softening-Edge-humanitys-leadership-changing/dp/9948340094/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1618728223&refinements=p_27%3AMimi+Nicklin&s=books&sr=1-1

✩ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miminicklin/?hl=en

✩ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxv635q-WB871-OA6KuUdpg

✩ Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/ae/podcast/the-empathy-for-breakfast-show/id1561120477

Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-empathy-for-breakfast-show

✩ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MimiNicklin

✩ TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSwRhfwW/

CONNECT WITH ANITA

✩ Email [email protected]

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✩ Facebook Page https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyFacebook

✩ Facebook Group https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyCommunity

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This episode was brought to you by Grand Heron International

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Video Edited by David Tsvariani

Watch this episode to learn how a successful Hollywood producer has found joy - and success - flexing his empathy muscles.

Serial pro-social entrepreneur, Peter Samuelson has always been ambitious about solving social problems. After 35 years of impact work, he’s brought shelter to the unhoused, helped foster kids get into college and brought joy into the lives of seriously ill children and their families. These days, through his production company, Philmco, he’s inspiring audiences to translate their empathy into action. In this episode, he describes how all his passion work has brought untold meaning and joy into his life.

CONNECT WITH PETER:

✩ Website www.samuelson.la

✩ Phimco Media www.philmcomedia.com

✩ First Star Academy www.firststar.org

✩ Everyone Deserves a Roof www.edar.org

✩ Starlight Children’s Foundation www.starlight.org

CONNECT WITH ANITA

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✩ Facebook Page https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyFacebook

✩ Facebook Group https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyCommunity

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This episode was brought to you by Grand Heron International

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Watch this episode to be inspired by a fashion designer’s commitment to empathy.

Kim Smiley is unapologetic about leveraging her fashion business to promote empathy. In this episode, Kim describes how an empathy experiment she conducted a few years ago went viral and shares how she’s woven together her two great passions - empathy and jewellery design - into her business.

CONNECT WITH KIM:

✩ Website www.kimsmiley.com

✩ Instagram — @kimsmiley

✩ Twitter & Pinterest — @sapphobykim

✩ About The Empathy Effect & Empathy Pledge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gr2K3jqZgc

✩Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SapphoByKimSmiley

✩YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gr2K3jqZgc

CONNECT WITH ANITA

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✩ Facebook Page https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyFacebook

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This episode was brought to you by Grand Heron International

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Watch this episode to be inspired by the power of dialogue.

One of the first women with a Muslim immigrant background to be elected to the Danish Parliament, Özlem Sara Cekic, is now General Secretary for Bridge Builders - Centre for Dialogue Coffee. In this episode, she recounts how she turned xenophobia on its head as an elected official by meeting her racist haters over coffee in their homes. After thousands of dialogues, she speaks with authority - and humility - about the power and potential of empathic listening.

CONNECT WITH  ÖZLEM:

✩ Website https://brobyggerne.dk/?lang=en

✩ TED Talk: https://tinyurl.com/OzlemCekicTED

✩ Book https://tinyurl.com/OzlemBook

✩Photography by LesKaner: https://www.ozlem.dk/kontakt/

CONNECT WITH ANITA

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This episode was brought to you by Grand Heron International

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Video Edited by David Tsvariani

Watch this episode to be inspired by a Peruvian educator who believes we must empower children to be agents of change on behalf of Mother Earth, whose programs reach 2 million children in South America.

Joaquín Leguia is an Ashoka Fellow, a masterful storyteller, and founder of ANIA, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating children about sustainable development. In this episode, he shares his vision to include an 18th goal in the UN SDGs (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) called Active Empathy for Life.

Listen to the audio version here: https://anchor.fm/anita-nowak

CONNECT WITH JOAQUIN:

✩ Website https://en.aniaorg.pe/

✩ SDG 18  https://en.ods18.com/

✩https://issuu.com/aniaorg/docs/the_garden_and_i

✩TED Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/joaquin_leguia_orezzoli_tini_tierra_de_ninas_ninos_y_jovenes

CONNECT WITH ANITA

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This episode was brought to you by Grand Heron International

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Video Edited by David Tsvariani