Replay: Beating Burnout for Idealists with Alessandra Pigni

Change Making Women

This week we are re-playing Episode 55 which featured a conversation between Mary Ann and Alessandra Pigni who sadly died recently. In the show, recorded last year before she died, they talk about Alessandra's book ‘The Idealist’s Survival Kit. 75 Simple Ways to Avoid Burnout’, the causes of burnout in the Humanitarian Sector, why you aren’t alone if you are experiencing it and why a mixture of strategies are the best way to address it. Alessandra Pigni was a humanitarian psychologist, organisational consultant and author of The Idealist’s Survival Kit. 75 Simple Ways to Avoid Burnout. After serving with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders in Palestine and China. She dedicated her work to understanding the connection between meaningful work and burnout. She was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and her work has a wide following among humanitarian practitioners, activists, and academics. Find out more about Alessandra at www.mindfulnext.org And purchase her book at https://www.parallax.org/product/idealists-survival-kit-75-simple-ways-to-prevent-burnout/