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Explore books, published articles, essays, podcast interviews, and video conversations by Lisa Bennett. Her work explores how we can stay engaged with the world, reconnect with what we value, and keep making a difference in overwhelming times.
Drawing on storytelling, research, leadership, and social change, she examines what helps people and purpose-led organizations sustain purpose, possibility, and the capacity to act.
Read Lisa’s latest essays on Substack, and explore selected articles, interviews, and videos below.
Lisa Bennett is the author of the forthcoming Savor the World. She has also co-authored, edited, and contributed to books on emotional intelligence and sustainability, women and leadership, and compassion and social change.
Books
Forthcoming
Savor the World begins with a central idea: before we can rise to the great challenges of our time, we need to stay connected to what makes the world worth loving.
For generations, the call to “save the world” inspired people to protect what they loved. But in an age of overlapping crises, that call can leave good people feeling overwhelmed, depleted, and powerless. Savor the World offers a more sustaining way forward, helping us hold both the difficulty of the world and its beauty, possibility, and abundance.
Drawing on research, stories, and practical insight, the book explores how savoring can help us stay engaged, reconnect with what we value, and keep making a difference in overwhelming times.
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Edited
Lisa Bennett has also contributed to numerous books, including The Compassionate Instinct, Smart by Nature, A Place at the Table, and more.
Articles & Essays
Selected writing by Lisa Bennett on human capacity in challenging times through the lenses of storytelling, clarity, presence, emotional intelligence, purpose, agency, parenting, leadership, social change, and more.
Selected Published Articles
Big Think
Why the Best Leaders Help Their Teams to “Savor” the World
In an age of polycrisis, this article argues that we should spend less time trying to save the world — and focus on savoring it instead.
Lion’s Roar
A Cup of Tea for a Burning World
On how presence can ground us in the face of climate anxiety—offering comfort, clarity, and a way forward.
Thrive Global
How Slowing Down Now May Help Us Live Better Later
Something extraordinary and good may be happening amid all the more trying and traumatic things that are part of living through a global pandemic.
Forbes
How to Use ‘Muscular’ Empathy to Drive Social Change
For the practice of empathy to be effective—in business, education, or social entrepreneurship—it’s important to conceive of it not as a “soft, flattering, hand-holding” sentiment but, in the words of Ta-Nehisi Coates, as a “muscular empathy rooted in curiosity.”
Vox
Most Discussions on Climate Change Ignore These 10 Basic Facts About Human Nature
Wisdom gleaned from interviews with dozens of experts in psychology, neuroscience, sociology, economics, and political science.
From the Savor the World Newsletter
Selected essays from Lisa Bennett’s Savor the World newsletter on how good people rise to great challenges in tough times. Featured topics include storytelling, clarity, presence, emotional intelligence, purpose, agency, parenting, leadership, social change, and more. SUBSCRIBE ON SUBSTACK.
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