PART THREE

AWAKENING COMPASSION COMPETENCE IN ORGANIZATIONS

In this section, we move beyond individual responses to suffering and take a system-level perspective, looking at elements of organizations and how workplaces can be designed with compassion in mind.

This section opens a window into how leaders, managers, employees, and change agents—the compassion architects of an organization—can awaken compassion competence across entire systems. Rather than focusing on how individuals respond to suffering, we focus on how whole organizations respond. We will show you what compassion competence looks like in different kinds of organizations and reveal a framework for understanding generally what contributes to compassion competence in a system. We ...

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