Adding Heart to Help Heal Communities

March 17, 2021 00:29:58

Show Notes

During this unprecedented and challenging time, it’s become more important than ever to Add Heart, to help ease the separations and promote healing.

More people are feeling that it’s both essential and highly possible to co-create a world in which treating each other with more kindness, compassion and respect is common sense.

Michael Nila, this month’s Add Heart Call guest, will share his experience and what he thinks it will take for communities to start healing from long-standing divisions and injustices.

Michael is the managing partner of Blue Courage, facilitating The HeartMath Institute in bringing HeartMath’s tools to police departments and community service agencies. He re-engineered police departments from being traditional police agencies into community-oriented departments. Blue Courage focuses on the heart and mind, which represent the foundation for making good decisions and enhancing one’s capacity to serve honorably.

Communities across the nation and abroad are calling for new strategies and policies that will bring people together and respect and honor cultural diversity. Michael will share how this co-creation process might work and why adding heart can help.

Our host, Deborah, will lead us through a heart meditation to Add Heart to the healing process of all communities and to the necessary changes that will help to bring our communities together in compassionate cooperation.

More about Michael Nila:
Michael is the 2016 recipient of the Attorney General’s Award for Meritorious Public Service and the HeartMath Institute’s Humanitarian Heart Award, in recognition for improving the health and well-being of policing through resilience training.

Working with communities nationwide, Michael has trained and certified thousands of employees, executives and trainers for notable organizations and law enforcement organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the United Nations, the military, government agencies and Fortune 500 companies.

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