Business and Compassion

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Comment by John Boswell on September 13, 2011 at 5:41pm

Added the group as a partner for the Conscious World Summit http://consciousworldsummit.com/sponsors-partners/

Comment by RAFAEL PABLO MOLINA FERNANDO on August 3, 2011 at 9:36pm

Every Business endeavor and initiative should have "compassion" as its main mandate and objective, thus any form of productivity and profits come easily.

Comment by Maureen McCarthy on July 12, 2011 at 8:32pm

Hello ~

This is Maureen McCarthy of the Center for Collaborative Awareness in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. (Although I'm in Seattle for the month of July and part of August.) Jon Ramer, a founder of CAN, suggested I take a look at this group. I really love this topic! Thanks!

 

I wanted to share a compassionate collaboration process called the State of Grace Document (a.k.a. the "Blueprint of WE") that is being used in businesses around the world in many languages, by companies of every size; from solo entrepreneurs, small businesses and non-profits to schools, entire communities and corporations. 

 

What Is It?

The State of Grace Document is a new way to build, sustain and transition internal and external business relationships with trust and respect in order to increase the health of both people and profits. It establishes more resilient business relationships in a world that changes in increasingly complex ways, making the old ground rules no longer reliable. It gives you the power to be the architect of your life, rather than squeezing into pre-established relationship definitions. You personally write it along with those involved (whether it be 2 or 20,000+ people), preferably at the beginning of the relationship. It captures what draws each individual to the situation, your personal preferences and expectations; and it provides a path back to peace if the need arises. It is often being used to replace or enhance traditional legal contracts.

 

My husband and business partner, Zelle Nelson, and I are the creators of the State of Grace Document and we're in Seattle for the month of July and part of August. I would love to meet with others who a re interested in the cross section of compassion and business. 

 

We're also offering a Free 2-hour Evening Intro Event on the State of Grace Document in Seattle July 20 at the Stroum JCC and a workshop on August 3-4, 2011 at The Integral Loft. Want to join us??? (Details on the CAN site.)

 

Hope to meet some of you soon...

 

Maureen

Comment by Farhad F. Karamally on June 7, 2011 at 12:41am

will be speaking on the subject at Institute of Bankers Pakistan (IBP) on June 09... will share details post event... I am designing an engaging and non-talk based learning experience :-)

Comment by Farhad F. Karamally on June 6, 2011 at 1:02pm

Hi all... I m in :)

Comment by Anil on March 30, 2011 at 7:41pm

Dear Ethan and Joel,

 

Thanks much for both of your comments.  I specially appreciated the quotes from MLK about power and love -- very insightful!  I look forward to engaging in a deeper conversation with everyone about all of this.

Comment by Anil on March 30, 2011 at 7:33pm

Dear Friends,

 

Lots of activity in this sector!  I'll be posting a couple of articles shortly and announcing our next meeting.  We'd like to explore looking at "profit" vs "benefit" in the context of social entrepreurship for starters, and look forward to your contributions as we move forward.

Comment by Ethan Schaffer on March 30, 2011 at 8:33am

Joel, thanks for the inspiration! I believe we met briefly once at BGI. I'll keep you informed of other upcoming events.

Comment by Joel Levey on March 29, 2011 at 10:25pm

Looking at the literal and metaphorical meltdowns that are unfolding in our world today it's so clear that raising the consciousness and deepening the wisdom and compassion of leaders is vital to our collective well-being and success. The foundation for this work is in gaining enough depth of insight that we begin to discern our interdependencies and are genuinely moved to be disciplined/ethical/compassionate about our choices and behaviors.


“Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites – polar opposites – so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love. We’ve got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our time.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
--Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Comment by Joel Levey on March 29, 2011 at 10:20pm

Thanks Ethan, Wonderful to see you offering this. Please keep me posted of future events. We've been teaching Vipassana with executives and leaders in hundreds of corporate, medical, educational, and medical organizations around the globe for over 30 years so your offering here is of particular interest to us. We'll be out of town for this event and I wish you great success and inspiration with this offering.

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