Tag Archives: aid workers’ wellbeing
Learning to listen
Want to help someone? Shut up and listen! Once upon a time I was an aid worker, full of good intentions, and ‘fooled’ by good intentions. My Palestinian friends and colleagues have taught me that people need freedom, not aid. … Continue reading
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Mosquitoes and following your bliss
Easter and Passover are upon us and I happen to be in Jerusalem, so when I was invited at an interfaith Seder for Passover near Jericho in Palestine, I took the opportunity to join in. The event itself had something special as it drew … Continue reading
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Switch off the internet noise to see clearly
or the ‘Monkey Mind’ at work Going through the tweet feed my attention was caught by this headline ‘Switch off the internet noise to see clearly’. I clicked on the link and off I was on the Irish Times reading an article on … Continue reading
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Staff Care: Economic? Legal? Ethical?
Impressions from the People in Aid 2012 HHR Conference June 15, 2012 Following 8 months in Palestine and an intense and very interesting Humanitarian HR Conference in Amsterdam, I’m now back in Oxford. Everything is so quiet here. I understand … Continue reading
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Think Different: On post-traumatic growth
How trauma and difficulties can sometimes be the springboard to greater well-being *** I see it as part of my job to encourage the possibility of transformation that can arise from suffering, rather than pathologising life’s adversities. Though I originally … Continue reading
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From humanitarian to ‘humane’
In May I attended the HHR People in Aid Conference in Amsterdam. I followed with much interest the intervention by the ex global editor at Reuters, Michael Lawrence. His story highlighted the involvement of Reuters’ senior management in bringing about a change in the organisational culture in relation to staff care. Continue reading
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