Aperio Book Club: Mindful Self-Compassion for Burnout

Join us at our October book club for a lively conversation with nonprofit leaders and fundraisers  with special guest facilitator: coach, meditation teacher, and speaker Megan Whitney. We'll discuss what we've learned from the book along with practical steps for applying it to our day-to-day lives.

Note: This will be an interactive, small-group event. Don't have time to read the book? No worries! Join us anyway to share your experiences and learn from others.

About Megan

Megan Whitney helps changemakers navigate burnout through one-on-one coaching, speaking, and live events on Insight Timer. She brings mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and self-compassion tools to help nonprofit leaders release stress and cultivate calm.

With an 18-year career in the nonprofit sector, Megan understands the pressures of this work firsthand. After burning out a decade ago, she made it her mission to help others avoid the same exhaustion. She’s built a 400+ person mindfulness community within a national hunger-relief nonprofit, trained hundreds of food bankers in mindful leadership, and has helped embed mindfulness into nonprofit cultures across the U.S.

About the book

"I'm tired of feeling stressed out every day." "I can't stand having so little impact, despite caring so much and working so hard." "I just don't have anything left to give." 

Over years of developing and teaching their renowned Mindful Self-Compassion program, Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer have found MSC to be uniquely helpful for people struggling with the soul-draining depletion of burnout--from health care professionals, teachers, and caregivers, to tapped-out business owners and employees. Each chapter in this engaging book offers an empathic story of someone stretched to their limits and an easily digestible bite of self-compassion that culminates in a simple anti-burnout tool based on MSC practices. Learn quick and powerful ways to recharge your batteries, de-stress, and, above all, be kind to yourself—so you can be there for others.

Find the book at goodreads.com