Voices of Courage with Ken D Foster

Guest, Elizabeth Bishop, The Courage to Awaken Wellbeing

www.elizabethbishipconsulting.com

Ken D Foster interviews Elizabeth Bishop, the author of Conscious Service: Ten Ways to Reclaim Your Calling, Move Beyond Burnout, and Make a Difference without Sacrificing Yourself.

Elizabeth Bishop is the creator of The Conscious Service Approach ™, a research-based set of principles designed to enhance both the experience of service providers and the quality of service they offer.

Questions and Talking Points:

1. Looking at the role that joy and fulfillment play in our wellbeing

2. How service is an expression of love ~ an energy first before it is enacted

3. Creating cultures of being well in our workplaces

4. Exploring the relational quality of Conscious Service

5. I'd be happy to speak a bit about my current PhD research that builds on the first two concepts

6. Also, happy to talk about a current research project that has focused on the wellbeing of service providers in healthcare and human services ~ we could highlight the role of emotional labor in both the delivery of services in these systems as well as the sometimes, challenging conversations we engage in with our colleagues related to issues of equity, diversity and inclusion

7. Thinking in terms of engagement instead of boundary setting

8. Touch on practical strategies for developing self care practices that emerge from a self loving presence and encouraged through a self compassionate attitude.