Posts by Sara Schairer
Quiz: Are You Experiencing Burnout?
Are you feeling burnt out? According to recent statistics, there’s a very good chance that you are. A 2021 survey by Indeed.com found that over half of its 1,500 respondents were experiencing burnout. Find out if you’re burnt out by taking our brief assessment below. Believe it or not, the World Health Organization…
Read MoreCompassion It’s 2021
As I reflect on the second year of the pandemic, I feel proud and grateful. Compassion It has continued to step up and show up for individuals, organizations, and communities during these challenging times. Here are our highlights from 2021: 1 – We offered compassion trainings to THOUSANDS In 2021, we served over 2,900…
Read More7 Tips to Work from Home Without Burning Out
To lessen burnout, you can practice compassion for yourself and your co-workers. What does that look like when you’re working from home? Here are some ideas.
Read MoreWhat is Self-Compassion?
I’ve been facilitating courses on compassion for over eight years now, and there’s one thing that keeps coming up again and again: Most of us have never learned how to have compassion for ourselves. I remember when I first learned about self-compassion in 2012, and my compassion teacher challenged me to consider, “Think…
Read MoreCompassion in Action
A kind stranger recently posted the below drawing on social media, and he tagged Compassion It and me. The Chopra.com article, Compassion in Action: 15 Easy Ways to Spread Kindness, inspired artist Bodhisatva Vivek to create the piece. In the article, I shared some of my favorite ways to “compassion it,” including: Offering your full…
Read More2020 Highlights (yes, we had a few)
Hindsight might be 2020; however, like you, Burrell and I had no way of anticipating what the year would bring. We could never have predicted that a global pandemic would shut down the world and simultaneously open hearts and minds to the value of compassion and the reality of interconnectedness. We were both grateful…
Read More“You Picked a Hell of a Week for Your Retreat”
My friend Brett’s text message to me this morning sums it up… “You picked a hell of a week for your retreat.” Boy, ignorance was bliss. Yesterday afternoon, I re-emerged out of a five-day silent meditation retreat. Unlike other retreats I’ve attended, this one, like so many other pandemic-era experiences, arrived in…
Read MoreFor Workplace Leaders: 11 Tips to Promote Self-Compassion
My teammate, Burrell Poe, and I recently led a 90-minute self-compassion workshop for 20 leaders of a large organization. We asked them prior to the training to share their current challenges, and this is what we heard back: “I am worried about team burnout.” “I feel like there are too many fires to…
Read MoreHow to Practice Compassion During a Divisive Time
It’s not always easy to “compassion it.” Especially when the divisiveness created by our two-party political system takes the “united” out of the United States of America. Dealing with the pain and uncertainties of a global pandemic certainly doesn’t help. During a time when we need more connection and compassion, politics keeps widening the…
Read MoreInviting Your Enemies – or Howard Stern – to Tea
What Happens When You Invite Your Enemies to Tea? Howard Stern entered an elevator and found himself face-to-face with Regis Philbin – a man he had been relentlessly berating on his well-known radio show. What could have been an awkward elevator ride instead became a lesson on unconditional kindness. I’m a big fan of…
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