As I reflect on the lessons from New Seneca Village, one of the things that really stands out to me is that my body...is home. My body tells me when I'm feeling unsafe or when it's time to rest. [This experience] has turned me inside out and I feel like I'm becoming more of who I'm meant to be.
While time away from the workplace and from our professional identities is essential, it is not sufficient to fully restore leaders engaged in the relentless work of addressing systemic injustice. Our world is moving at a pace of increased urgency, complexity, and consequence-to respond requires thinking about and practicing leadership differently.
Sustaining leadership is about more than professional identity and capacity. It is about ensuring that [leaders] are aligned with their own spirit and values-that they are practicing trusting their intuition and integrating their insights in ways that activate their leadership.
The recent trend of sabbaticals and rest experiences is encouraging. Restoration, including the core element of rest, is crucial to ensuring that leaders reconnect to the baseline of their own nervous systems and recover from the stress-induced exhaustion prevalent in nonprofit spaces.
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