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"In a gentle way, we can shake the world." --Gandhi
First Do No Harm: A Humanitarian's Journey to Greater Wholeness and Contribution
Chris Hoffman, a lifelong humanitarian serving in crises in dozens of countries, stepped away from field work after two decades. He realized that he and humanitarians often do more harm than good – largely because they themselves are “not well” from the trauma they already hold and what they experience in their crisis jobs. So he began to support the sector to be more effective and innovative – first via contemplative resilience offerings for humanitarians (mindfulness and somatic practices), and now as Managing Director of Humanity Link, a firm that links innovative companies with humanitarian agencies to develop effective technology for flipping the paradigm in humanitarian programming to be more client-driven. He aims to help develop tools and systems that transform how humanitarian organizations interact with people in need – from service delivery to genuine partnership.
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Awakin Calls is an initiative of ServiceSpace, a global, all-volunteer community dedicated to small acts of great love. Our webinar and podcast series highlights the outer work and inner journeys of individuals who are transforming our world in large and small ways. We aim to inspire and seed shifts in consciousness by highlighting paradigm-shifting ways of being and doing in the world. We are a heart-centered learning community across wisdom traditions exploring the ServiceSpace principle of “change yourself, change the world”. We organize our processes in accordance with the principles we seek to lift up, and so each conversation is co-created by a team of volunteers distributed across the world, in a spirit of intrinsically motivated service and kinship.