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Women and Words! Cultivating Joy and Self-Compassion

Location

Main Library
Rindge Room
449 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Contact

Emily Shield
Manager of Programs and Special Projects
Cambridge Women’s Commission
eshield@cambridgema.gov

Description

Cultivating Joy and Self-Compassion: Explore embodied self-compassion in life and leadership through practicing mindfulness, common humanity, and kindness.
Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to all.

Join Barbara Best, community organizer, youth advocate, and system change leader, as she explores the self-compassion practice that has been transformational for life and leadership. Best centers compassion in leadership – to meet suffering with kindness and know that we are not alone as we work on transformation.

Best served as Executive Director of the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership and led the rapid expansion of public service fellowships from 51 to 118 graduate fellows over a five-year period, with 36% U.S. students of color, 32% international students from 29 countries, and 53% women.

Best is a Doctor in Education Leadership candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Presented by the Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women. The Cambridge Women’s Commission recognizes, supports, and advocates for all who self-identify as women or with womanhood. For more information, contact CCSW at womenscommission@cambridgema.gov.

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