Would you like to join our webinar on a sustainable future next Monday? It will be at 11:30am to 1:00pm UK BST time. It is called: ‘challenging today to create tomorrow: purpose, people, planet and prosperity in a Covid-19 world – what difference will we make?’. We have participants attending from India, Australia, USA, Zambia, The Gambia, Bermuda and more! Many thanks in advance to Shivani (Singhal), Pandiyan (Kamal), Laura (Vickery) and Sharon (Turnbull) who will be leading on different elements. To learn more, click here. To register, click here.
Grief and the pandemic? Drawing on the remarkable insights about grief by the late Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler has applied and extended this to the current Covid-19 situation. He reasons that people should recognise the grief that many are facing and help them to heal. He identifies three groups of people that have been deeply affected by Covid-19: ‘the worried well, the affected and bereaved’.
Forms of grieving that are not about physical losses? David Kessler explains that it is important to recognise that many people are feeling great emotional and psychological anxiety that leads to a sense of loss and grief, especially about others that they care about who are suffering acute turmoil, even if they are physically well. People might also be deeply moved about the loss of normalcy, the loss of previous opportunities or plans. To read more, click here and here to read an article from The Guardian today about how the implications vary in the UK.
What do we need to learn about cross-cultural communication? We are delighted to announce that our article on ‘cross-cultural communication’ has recently been updated. Many people found the original by Peter (Moore) very useful. Please feel free to share this latest iteration with anyone that might find it helpful. For the English version, click here; for Spanish here and French here.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross quote: "the most beautiful people we have known are those that have known defeat, known suffering, know struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."
Have a great day!
Rosie, Lorna and Ian