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Dear Colleagues,

Please join us in sharing the experience of these two forward-looking symposia!  By entering the word Compassion in your program search, you will find all the details and logistics.  Here is a preview...

1) Expanding Compassion Conversation for Changing Organizations (paper presentations and generative Q&A)
Monday, Aug 10, 11:30a.m. - 1:00p.m. at SWISSOTEL 

2) Compassion in Organizations and Compassionate Questions in Organizational Scholarship (panel discussion and group brainstorming)
Monday, Aug 10, 3:00p.m. - 4:30p.m. at SHERATON


DETAILS: The paper symposium, Expanding Compassion Conversation for Changing Organizations:

Four diverse paper presentations will showcase the reaches of compassion in organizational settings and reveal the possibilities for future compassion research. Original findings will be reported alongside conceptual propositions for developing compassion scholarship. From disenfranchised grief to supervisors' compassion to a new lens on coaching, the presentations will be both mindful and engaging. This symposium will paint a picture of potential benefits of exploring compassion in today's changing organizations. We also aim at generating ideas for research and theory development and the application of existing theories to emerging domains like compassion in coaching and leadership for change. Our audience will have an opportunity to interact with the presenters and discussant in a questions-and-answers format.

Presenters: Mary Ann Hazen, Glenda Fisk, Jacoba Lilius, Ellen Van Oosten, Melvin Smith, Richard Boyatzis, Andre Avramchuk.

Discussant: Kim Cameron.


DETAILS: The panel symposium, Compassion in Organizations and Compassionate Questions in Organizational Scholarship:

This symposium contributes both our compassionate approach toward organizational challenges we address as scholars and our exploration of compassion as an important component of organizational life. We will draw on discussions with the framers of Positive Organizational Scholarship, founding members of CompassionLab, and the path-breaking scholars in compassionate coaching and leadership development. We also intend to make connections and foster a sense of community between theorists and researchers from various sub-disciplines based on their shared compassionate disposition to organizational and management scholarship.

Break-out groups will include the following panelists serving as facilitators:
1) Researching Compassion in Organizations - Jacoba Lilius and Jason Kanov
2) Managing and Coaching with Compassion - Richard Boyatzis
3) Compassion and Management Teaching - Kim Cameron
4) Compassionate Questions and Change - Robert Quinn. 

Note: this symposium is a winner of the Global Forum Best Symposium award from the MED division (award sponsored by University of Manchester Business School).

Just be there!

Andre Avramchuk
organizer and presenter