Mindfulness, Compassion and Work: Leah Weiss
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Her ninth-grade teacher changed her life, but the loss of a friend followed by time in service of Tibetan refugees in India would lead Leah Weiss to change the lives of thousands in ways she never saw coming, until they arrived.
Leah Weiss, Ph.D., MSW, is a teacher, researcher, and meditation expert at Stanford University specializing in mindfulness and compassion. She teaches a perennially waitlisted course at Stanford, Leading with Mindfulness and Compassion, and is the Principal Teacher and Trainer for Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Training program, founded by the Dalai Lama. She is also the author of How We Work (https://amzn.to/2jxpULU), and a women's rights advocate who strives to bring actionable methods for difficult work situations to women at all levels.
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| 0:00.0 | We had a girl over there. You just came out of a hundred day meditation retreat. |
| 0:06.2 | Like, can you A. do something for the patients we don't know what to do with? |
| 0:11.3 | And B. Can you do something for us because we're trying to... |
| 0:14.3 | It seems like there should be a fit between what you're doing and to this burnout, compassion fatigue. |
| 0:20.1 | My guest today, Lea Weiss, is a PhD, a professor, teacher, researcher, meditation expert at Stanford University, |
| 0:31.5 | specializing in the application of mindfulness and compassion. |
| 0:36.9 | She teaches a number of the most popular classes at Stanford on compassion, |
| 0:41.8 | word religion, philosophy, experimental introduction to Buddhism. |
| 0:46.9 | She has a super cool new book out called How We Work. |
| 0:52.5 | I actually began a conversation with Lea a couple of years back because they became fascinated with not just her academic work, |
| 0:58.8 | but her personal journey. |
| 1:00.5 | When you look at the body of work she's created and the incredible volume of people that whose lives she has touched, |
| 1:08.6 | it's really impressive, but what I didn't know when I first met her was that that journey actually |
| 1:13.8 | was set in motion when she was in ninth grade, when she stumbled into a class that was taught on |
| 1:20.9 | enlightenment in high school of all places. And that would end up serving her incredibly well because |
| 1:27.4 | in her early years at Stanford she suffered the loss of one of her closest oldest friends. |
| 1:34.1 | And that set in motion, this incredible sojourn which took her out of Stanford into India, |
| 1:40.3 | into all sorts of really deep dives into who she is, the life and world around her, meditation and |
| 1:49.6 | compassion and why it really matters so deeply. So excited to share this conversation with you. |
| 1:54.7 | I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:58.9 | So the 10% happier podcast has one guiding philosophy. Happiness is a skill that you can learn, |
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