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Recasting burnout as a crucial phase of service,
Building Resilience Through Contemplative Practice uses real-world case studies to teach professionals and volunteers unique skills for resilience.
List of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface: Facing Burnout
1. Rewriting the Story of Service and Burnout
2. Contemplative Principles and Practices: Putting Adaptive Resilience to Work
3. Willingness/Not Willfulness
4. Not Taking In/Taking In
5. Moving Stability
6. Not All Up to Me/All Up to Me
7. The Edge of Earshot
8. Naming the Unnamed
Index
About the author
Bobbi Patterson, PhD, M. Div, is professor of pedagogy in the Department of Religion and the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University. A well-known speaker and presenter on burnout and resilience, she has helped create, direct, and reorganize a range of community-partnered service experiences and programs for over fifty years.
Summary
Recasting burnout as a crucial phase of service, Building Resilience Through Contemplative Practice uses real-world case studies to teach professionals and volunteers unique skills for resilience.
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"A must read for anyone engaged in volunteer service or in the helping professions! Building Resilience Through Contemplative Practice offers a fresh and hopeful perspective that positively reframes burnout as an adaptive phase of thriving service. A gem of a resource that grounds and renews through inspiring case examples, and practical and heartful exercises. Written by a deeply wise and compassionate teacher, Bobbi Patterson, who walks the talk and uniquely understands Christian and Buddhist contemplation coupled with a life of service." — Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, President, Mind & Life Institute
"This is a book that provides the balm of perspective for those whose careers or volunteer commitment focuses on serving. Rather than give in to burnout, Bobbi Patterson’s deep insight is that burnout is part of the cycle of service leading to resilience. Reading this book should not be yet another task undertaken by those already burdened; rather, it should be embraced as a hopeful and compassionate refuge at the crossroad where service and contemplative practice meet." — Joseph Favazza, PhD, President of St. Anselm College, widely known expert on pedagogies of community-engaged learning
