Healing Trauma with Radical Empathy Ft. Kawtar El Alaoui Purposeful Empathy Hosted by Anita Nowak

Watch this episode to learn how radical empathy can lead to healing, and how healing can lead to leadership effectiveness and organizational wellness. Kawtar El Alaoui is a leadership consultant and coach whose specializations include: Organizational wellness, conscious communication, cross-cultural understanding, diversity and inclusion, gender-balanced leadership and should purpose. She is also the author of Unfolding Peace: 9 Leadership Principles to Create Cultures of Well-being, Belonging, and Peace. In this episode, she discusses her personal journey to heal from trauma, as well as the “radical empathy” work she does with David Sauvage to end war in two generations. 00:00 Preview 00:35 Introduction 00:52 About Kawtar El Alaoui 04:11 Kawtar’s backstory that led to her book, Unfolding Peace 10:17 Embracing life's messiness to be authentic 14:39 Going to work as a Muslim after October 7 20:12 Kawtar’s definition of “Radical Empathy" 21:30 "How We Make Peace: a Muslim and a Jew Demonstrate Radical Empathy (with David Sauvage) 31:55 The healing benefits of practising radical empathy 39:12 Why empathy is essential for today’s leaders 44:59 The healing benefits of "Somatic experiencing" 47:35 Interrupting patterns of intergenerational trauma 50:35 Awakening to the reality of our interdependence 53:52 Inner work for outer change 01:01:02 Kawtar El Alaoui's Purposeful Empathy Story CONNECT WITH ANITA ✩ Email [email protected] ✩ Website https://www.anitanowak.com/ ✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitanowak/ ✩ Instagram https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram ✩ Facebook Page https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyFacebook ✩ Facebook Group https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyCommunity ✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast CONNECT WITH KAWTAR ✩ Website https://www.conscioustogetherness.com/ ✩ LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/conscioustogetherness ✩ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/conscioustogetherness ✩ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/conscious_togetherness/ ✩ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKVtvP6Lwu6FNoF7CxUqHbQ SHOW NOTES ✩ How to End War in Two Generations https://www.intwogenerations.com/ ✩ The Inner Development Goals https://innerdevelopmentgoals.org/ ✩ Unfolding Peace: 9 Leadership Principles to Create Cultures of Well-being, Belonging, and Peace https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0988780984?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_XG0QH45K5GN4Y10J9XKY ✩ Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma https://a.co/d/2unwMLe ✩ Origin by Ava DuVernay https://www.originfilm.com/synopsis/ Video Edited by David Tsvariani