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5 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Personal Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. This year we hiked by Pacific Ocean near Moss Bay.(Pictured Pictured above).

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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. Year in Review During the first two months of 2020, I taught workshops and facilitated digital transformation innovation labs in London and Warsaw.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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What We Can Learn from Finnish NGOS About Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I had an exciting and busy week of teaching public workshops, facilitating informal staff workshops, and meetings at the Embassy mostly on the topic of Networked Nonprofit, digital strategy, and leading on social media. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What Should A Donor Do When They Don’t Feel Adequately Engaged?

Bloomerang

And I imagine your organization has a culture of philanthropy in which everyone comes from a place of love. Alas, too many organizations lose sight of this culture. You, because you’re human, are driven to want to light up the pleasure center of your brain with “feel good” shots of dopamine. I believe all giving is important.

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Creating A Culture of Well-being in Your Nonprofit Workplace: The First Step

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last June, I facilitated a leadership workshop at the Americans for the Arts Conference where I tested some of the assessments and checklist tools in our book. Their program includes about teaching artists. Then we had the whole staff brain storm together. Does your nonprofit have a culture of wellbeing?

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. And the next location will be at MoMA where they are teaching a 10 week digital media course about building arcades and will actually build one with kids. Questions and Discussion.

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