#107 Cultivating Kindness: A Recipe for Growth with Harpal Dhatt

What’s the role of kindness and its importance in personal and professional growth?

In this episode, I am joined by Harpal Dhatt, also known as the Kindness Chef. She is a podcast host, a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster, and the founder of Kindness Cafes.

She helps leaders create a culture of kindness with nourishing recipes & menus to increase wellbeing.

Harpal explains how her journey began with compassion but evolved into focusing on kindness. She emphasizes the need for self-compassion and discusses the challenges of practicing kindness, especially when people are suffering.

Highlights

• Harpal shared how she realised the power of compassion in alleviating suffering.
• She believes that kindness is a powerful force for growth and how to use the KIND model to reduce stress and burnout.
• She struggled to explain compassion to others and eventually found that kindness was a more universally understood concept.
• Harpal emphasizes that being kind to oneself is the first step to being kind to others.
• She shares how she used the Kindness menu as exercises during the covid 19 pandemic in organisations.
• We also discussed how creating a culture of kindness can boost employee engagement and turn them into strong brand ambassadors.

 

More info about the podcast

• Website: https://www.francinebeleyi.com/podcast/
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Connect with Harpal Dhatt

• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/harpaldhatt/
• Website kindnesschef.com
• Transforming Trauma by Doctor James Gordon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Transforming-Trauma-Discovering-Wholeness-Healing/dp/1529398126

 

Connect with Francine Beleyi

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• Website: https://www.francinebeleyi.com/