Episode 10: How do you learn self-compassion?
April 2024
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Reflection Questions:
- What is your current self-compassion practice?
- What helped you learn and practice self-compassion? What has made it difficult (think about social and cultural identities in addition to any other barriers)?
- If you’re just starting out, what are some strategies for developing self-compassion you are willing to commit to trying? If you have been practicing for a while, what are some strategies you’d like to utilize to deepen your learning?
Speaker Bio
Elizabeth Rohr
Well-Being Advocate of the Rackham Graduate School
Elizabeth Rohr is the Well-Being Advocate of the Rackham Graduate School, partnering with Rackham graduate program faculty, staff, and students to identify and address structural issues that impact graduate student mental health and well-being. Elizabeth is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Social Work, with an emphasis in interpersonal practice and mental health. She also holds a BS in Sociology with a minor in History
from Northwestern University. Elizabeth has had an eclectic professional journey. She’s worked in the private sector as a corporate project and event manager; was a Public Allies Americorp member in Chicago working with HIV+
women and children, an intimate partner and sexual violence prevention peer educator in San Francisco, and helped conduct research and develop new programs for nontraditional graduate
students at the Center for the Education of Women (CEW+) here at U-M. Prior to joining Rackham, she worked directly with undergraduate students to develop their mindful leadership skills at the LSA Barger Leadership Institute for 5 years. As a social worker, Elizabeth believes in the capacity of people to advocate on their own behalf, as well as the importance of recognizing and respecting diverse perspectives, values, and experiences. She believes that the work she does here at the University has given her the opportunity to translate these beliefs into practice, while working every day with amazing students, staff, and faculty alike.
Fatema Haque
Barger Leadership Institute
Fatema is a longtime educator who has taught at universities internationally and domestically. At the core of her work as an educator is the goal of cultivating a democratic, engaged citizenry capable of critical thinking, teamwork, and critical reflection. At the BLI, she centers these values in training and supervising Leadership Teaching Fellows, teaching BLI’s leadership courses, and facilitating the Social Transformation Fellowship.
Prior to joining the BLI, Fatema served as a Dean of Students at the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and Co-Director of the Clinical Trunk at the University of Michigan Medical School. She is also a founding board member and former board president of Rising Voices, a Michigan-based nonprofit dedicated to organizing and developing Asian Americans for power around progressive values and
policy in the state of Michigan.
Fatema is an avid reader. She co-facilitates the Unerased Book Club, a national book club dedicated to building community through Asian American literature. In her free time, she creates intricate embroidered portraits of her family and friends and writes short stories.
