Session 5: Balancing Compassion and Assertiveness
Session Highlights:
An in-depth conversation with Dr. Kelly McGonigal, senior teacher and consultant for the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education and author of The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of ItCompassion for oneself and others in painBringing willpower to compassionBalancing compassion and assertiveness
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