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Explore books, published articles, essays, podcast interviews, and video conversations by Lisa Bennett. Her work examines how good people can rise to great challenges in tough times.
She does this through the lenses of storytelling, perspective, presence, emotional intelligence, purpose, agency, social change, and leadership. She applies this to topics of interest to mission-driven and purpose-led organizations, with a special focus on climate change, justice and equality, and public health.
Books
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.
Forthcoming
Savor the World begins with a central idea: before we can rise to the great challenges of our time, we need a shared story that helps us do so.
For generations, the call to “save the world” inspired people to protect what they loved. But in an age of overlapping crises, that story can also leave good people feeling overwhelmed, depleted, and powerless. Savor the World offers a larger, more sustaining narrative, one that helps us hold both the difficulty of the world and its beauty, possibility, and abundance.
Drawing on research, stories, and practical insight, it shows how good people can rise to great challenges in tough times with greater steadiness, purpose, and staying power.
Co-authored
Hopeful, eloquent, and bold, Ecoliterate offers inspiring stories, practical guidance, and an exciting new model of education that builds - in vitally important ways - on the success of social and emotional learning by addressing today's most important ecological issues.
This book shares stories of pioneering educators, students, and activists engaged in issues related to food, water, oil, and coal in communities from the mountains of Appalachia to a small village in the Arctic; the deserts of New Mexico to the coast of New Orleans; and the streets of Oakland, California to the hills of South Carolina.
Edited
This is a collection of inspiration and insights for professional women, straight from some of the world's most successful creatives, CEOs, and other trailblazing leaders, including Amal Clooney, Brené Brown, Viola Davis, Melinda Gates, and Anita Hill.
From executives to Olympic athletes, each leader explores the obstacles and experiences facing professional women in the modern world, including imposter syndrome, work-life balance, and influencing others for good.
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
Articles published by national magazines and other leading outlets.
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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