Andrea Hollingsworth

I'm sad about the pain here on this call. And then he led everybody in just taking a few deep breaths together. And then he said, he said, I want you to know that whatever you're feeling here today, before we get started, maybe you're grieved as well. Maybe you're angry. Maybe you're confused. He said, all of those feelings are welcome.

He said, if you didn't feel them like I'm feeling them, you wouldn't be human. And more than anything, we here in this division need to hold on to our humanity. And so he gave everyone a minute to kind of connect with themselves and what they're feeling. He laid down some ground rules for safe dialogue, and then they dived in or dove in.

He said, if you didn't feel them like I'm feeling them, you wouldn't be human. And more than anything, we here in this division need to hold on to our humanity. And so he gave everyone a minute to kind of connect with themselves and what they're feeling. He laid down some ground rules for safe dialogue, and then they dived in or dove in.

He said, if you didn't feel them like I'm feeling them, you wouldn't be human. And more than anything, we here in this division need to hold on to our humanity. And so he gave everyone a minute to kind of connect with themselves and what they're feeling. He laid down some ground rules for safe dialogue, and then they dived in or dove in.

And it was really a turning point in this group starting to heal some of these deep divisions around... culture, race, inclusion, privilege that had been, you know, like, of course, the George Floyd murder, like brought everything to the fore and for, you know, for so many of us.

And it was really a turning point in this group starting to heal some of these deep divisions around... culture, race, inclusion, privilege that had been, you know, like, of course, the George Floyd murder, like brought everything to the fore and for, you know, for so many of us.

And it was really a turning point in this group starting to heal some of these deep divisions around... culture, race, inclusion, privilege that had been, you know, like, of course, the George Floyd murder, like brought everything to the fore and for, you know, for so many of us.

And so, but that conversation just by him being vulnerable and real, not coming in with like, all right, I'm going to fix this. And here's how it's going to go. And hiding behind some kind of mask of like, I've got it all figured out. He didn't have it all figured out. He was feeling just as you know, amped up and grieved and probably angry and confused as everybody else.

And so, but that conversation just by him being vulnerable and real, not coming in with like, all right, I'm going to fix this. And here's how it's going to go. And hiding behind some kind of mask of like, I've got it all figured out. He didn't have it all figured out. He was feeling just as you know, amped up and grieved and probably angry and confused as everybody else.

And so, but that conversation just by him being vulnerable and real, not coming in with like, all right, I'm going to fix this. And here's how it's going to go. And hiding behind some kind of mask of like, I've got it all figured out. He didn't have it all figured out. He was feeling just as you know, amped up and grieved and probably angry and confused as everybody else.

And just by giving people permission to be human, it opened the way for actual deep healing in the team. So that is so powerful.

And just by giving people permission to be human, it opened the way for actual deep healing in the team. So that is so powerful.

And just by giving people permission to be human, it opened the way for actual deep healing in the team. So that is so powerful.

It's true, isn't it?

It's true, isn't it?

It's true, isn't it?

I love everything you just said, Mick. I just, I don't know that I have a whole lot to add to it. I... Just like we're built to care and connect with other people, we're also built to have meaning in our lives. And I think there's this dearth of meaning in work lately. People just go and they don't even know why they're there. And so when leaders can say...

I love everything you just said, Mick. I just, I don't know that I have a whole lot to add to it. I... Just like we're built to care and connect with other people, we're also built to have meaning in our lives. And I think there's this dearth of meaning in work lately. People just go and they don't even know why they're there. And so when leaders can say...

I love everything you just said, Mick. I just, I don't know that I have a whole lot to add to it. I... Just like we're built to care and connect with other people, we're also built to have meaning in our lives. And I think there's this dearth of meaning in work lately. People just go and they don't even know why they're there. And so when leaders can say...

as you said, work with teams to say, this is our because, this is what, you know, this is the reason that we're all doing what we're doing. And to keep that top of mind, it meets this deep, almost spiritual need in people to have meaning in the work that they do. And when people don't have that, when they don't have shared meaning, I really think it's a key driver for a lot of the