Building Vibrant 🤝Relationships, Thriving 📚 Workplaces, and 💖Meaningful Lives with Marc Lesser

Outside The Studio with Tessa Tovar

English - December 10, 2023 02:30 - 37 minutes - 72.1 MB
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In episode 121 of Outside The Studio with Tessa:

In this episode, we explore the transformative power of "compassionate accountability" with Marc Lesser, a seasoned mindful leadership trainer. Lesser, who has traversed a unique path from directing the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center to founding and leading successful businesses, shares insights from his book, "Finding Clarity."" The essence of accountability, according to Lesser, goes beyond fulfilling obligations?it involves clarity, empathy, and truth.

**Key Takeaways** 🗝️

1. Discover the importance of facing conflicts head-on for long-term benefits. Learning to embrace discomfort and foster empathy leads to collective, effective efforts towards common goals. 🤝

2. Practical tips on how to work with and through difficult emotions with clarity, care, and connection. 💖

3. Learn practical strategies for turning communication breakdowns into breakthroughs and foster win-win results that contribute to a more meaningful, and connected relationship. 📚

Join us for an enriching conversation with Marc Lesser as we unravel the profound impact of compassionate accountability on building vibrant relationships, thriving workplaces, and leading meaningful lives.

**Timestamps** ⏰

- (01:15) Intro Marc Lesser

- (03:17) Teaching meditation to engineers

- (05:25) Compassionate alignment

- (08:00) Get unstuck

- (13:23) The study of opposites

- (14:55) Journal exercise

- (17:00) Feel the pain and wishes

- (18:51) The skill of listening

- (21:30) The busy trap

- (25:30) Compassion, accountability, alignment

- (27:50) Workplace conflict

- (34:00) Be joyful and find equanimity

**Connect with Marc Lesser**

The book https://marclesser.net/books/

Website https://marclesser.net/

Wendell Berry “Be joyful though you have considered all of the facts”

Connect with Tessa Tovar

Website: https://tessatovar.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessamarietovar/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessa-tovar-baa27613

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TBenedicktus

The Dark Moon: A Book of Poetry for Savasana: https://a.co/d/e8LgG1T

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHMYm-7kNZfulgaiCi2w8Cw

In Episode 121 of Outside The Studio: