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With humor and compassion, Dancing in the Rain shows educators how to lead meaningful and productive lives in the face of life's inescapable downpours. Jerome T. Murphy draws on a combination of Eastern contemplative practices and Western psychology, as well as his own experience and research in the field of education leadership, to create a lively and accessible guide aimed at helping education leaders thrive under pressure. Dancing in the Rain offers exercises and activities that help educators take discomfort more in stride, savor the joys and satisfactions of leadership work, and flourish…mehr

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With humor and compassion, Dancing in the Rain shows educators how to lead meaningful and productive lives in the face of life's inescapable downpours. Jerome T. Murphy draws on a combination of Eastern contemplative practices and Western psychology, as well as his own experience and research in the field of education leadership, to create a lively and accessible guide aimed at helping education leaders thrive under pressure. Dancing in the Rain offers exercises and activities that help educators take discomfort more in stride, savor the joys and satisfactions of leadership work, and flourish as effective leaders guided by heartfelt values. "A wise distillation of deep insights and practices which, if implemented, will go far to transforming lives and organizations, and thus, the world." --Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness "An invaluable, lyrical, and extremely practical guide for all who seek to lead with wisdom. Fabulous." --Ronald Heifetz, King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School "No one ever told me to care for myself--until this life-changing book. I'm no Beyoncé, but I'm learning to dance in the rain." --Karen Marie Byron-Johnson, principal, Whitney M. Young Leadership Academy, Cleveland, Ohio "A thoroughly engaging, lucid, and pragmatic book exploring the benefits of mindfulness and compassion in our professional and everyday lives." --Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening "For every educator daring to lead in these daunting times, here is an honest, helpful, and hopeful book on how to do it with mind and heart from one who has seen it, taught it, done it, --danced it--and lived to tell the tale." --Diana Chapman Walsh, president emerita, Wellesley College Jerome T. Murphy is the Harold Howe II Professor of Education Emeritus and former dean at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Christopher Germer is a lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion.
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Jerome T. Murphy is the Harold Howe II Professor of Education Emeritus and former dean at Harvard Graduate School of Education.