29. Kindness Recipe - Bake your pizza and eat it as well

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The Kindness Chef

39 episodes

4 days ago

Welcome to the Kindness Chef podcast with your host Harpal Dhatt. I blend together my life experiences of; business psychology, love of learning, slowing down & nature. My passion since 2016 has been to share the importance of kindness. The ingredient you can always add. I talk about kindness and how to be kinder to yourself and others in a short 5 minute ‘walk with me’. I also invite guests for a longer deeper episode called ‘Sitting with ...’ and we create recipes to share with you from ‘Serving Kindness: A-Z of Kindness Recipes to nourish your mind, body and soul.'

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29. Kindness Recipe - Bake your pizza and eat it as well - Sitting with Sakshi Bansal

The Kindness Chef

50 minutes 5 seconds

3 years ago

29. Kindness Recipe - Bake your pizza and eat it as well - Sitting with Sakshi Bansal

Sakshi Bansal finished her Masters in Work and Organisational Psychology from the University of Nottingham in 2019. Sakshi was awarded as the first UNESCO Kindness Leader in 2018 for establishing Project LEAP, a social service project focused on SDG:4. She heads a team of 300+ volunteers and provides skill-based training to different volunteer groups in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Africa, the US and the UK. She also consults various Artificial Intelligence (AI) bases start-ups in an advisory capacity. Recently recognised for her work at Project LEAP by awarding us “Excellence in Business Psychology” award (March 2022 - The Association for Business Psychology). She is a Humanitarian Work Psychologist.

The work she does is an act of kindness, it's bigger than her and she likes to get up each morning with something purposeful to do. She says some people have a fear of giving too much of themselves away.

Her two key observations about "kindness": - Kindness is the act. It is different from empathy, sympathy and intention. - Kindness does not need to be followed by words like vulnerability, authenticity and trust. It can be followed by words like power, profits and leadership too.

We talk about the differences between India and UK culture. India is the 'we' culture and the UK is more about 'I'.

She likes to practice self-kindness through travelling.

Kindness Recipe - Bake your pizza and eat it as well

Ingredients - self-reflection, healthy environment - mind, body or your physical space, the act of recognition (differences in your thought pattern and words)

Method -

1. Take yourself to a happy place where you can reflect. (Travel, shower, working out)

She likes to travel and see a new city. That space becomes inspiring, she's seeing a place for the first time.

2. Find time to reflect.

Take notes on her thoughts, recognise the words I am using and what does that indicate.

3. Have the courage to accept and change unkind thoughts, behaviour patterns and then you take the action to change them.

The act of kindness is to go and change the narrative to be kinder to myself.

We need to stop confusing kindness with selflessness. We need to stop thinking that kindness and assertiveness and leadership do not go hand in hand, they definitely do.

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sakshi-bansal