Ashish Kothari and a researcher who studied thousands of articles on workplace spirituality discuss why organizations ignore the spiritual dimension of burnout. Ashish describes his own panic attacks and shutdown, and they explore how traditional wellness programs miss what actually sustains people at work.
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I have dug into the research on this and I discovered there were thousands of articles on workplace spirituality, just that domain. Should we be looking at this? Because we had been starting to talk about culture and we started to talk about how the organization needed to change to support wellbeing at work. Nobody wants to talk about that. And so I pushed it aside, but I kept working on it on my own. And these books that I've released over the past few years have been sort of my, my journey as well as what I've learned and how we translate that research into practice in very specific ways.
It's, it's, it's, it's that story is such— I hear that story all the time. But, you know, panic attacks, feeling like I had a heart attack. I lost my ability to like even, you know, my body just shut down, telling ourselves what work we do is mattering and I'm going to go all out. Or, well, wellness is focused on physical.