Healthcare professionals don’t go to work to become martyrs or heroes but reluctantly become precisely that. This blog contains questions for assessing the cost of conflicting demands.
Healthcare professionals don’t go to work to become martyrs or heroes but reluctantly become precisely that. This blog contains questions for assessing the cost of conflicting demands.
Two of the reasons calm thinking and functioning are so powerful in movement work are:
1. Safety and trust increase as stress and anxiety decrease.
2. Discretionary, tacit, and residual energy grow in calm environments, unleashing new ideas, creativity, innovation, and breakthroughs among peers, supporters, volunteers, and partners.
When you do not have equitable access to resources, opportunities, your health and life are at risk, and change is necessary. Patience and incremental changes are not solutions for addressing BIPOC and LGBTQ people’s lived realities. Change is welcomed when you have a say and control over resources and how they are disseminated. Real change is impossible when those impacted most severely lack decision rights and influence.
We don’t know how long the pandemic will last or what precisely a post-pandemic world looks like. We do know that finding ways to adapt to the new reality helps build resiliency.
Leading change is difficult. These rules are for anyone interested in sustainable equity-focused social change. This blog contains things to be aware of and look out for along the journey.