Amelia Dunlop - Elevating the Human Experience

1 Cover

2 Title Page Elevating the Human Experience Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work By Amelia Dunlop

3 Copyright

4 Dedication

5 Preface

6 Introduction Why Elevating the Human Experience Is Necessary Love and Worth Research How to Elevate the Human Experience

7 Foundation Chapter 1: Work A Personal History of Work The Beginnings of Work The Five Distortions of Work The Rise of Wellness, DEI, and Purpose at Work Chapter 2: Love Love Defined The Curious Thing about Love Chapter 3: Worth Extrinsic and Intrinsic Worth Worth at Work The Worthiness Gap Worth and Success Worth and Self-Care Chapter 4: Suffering The Human Experience

8 The First Path: Self Chapter 5: Self-Love and Self-Worth History of Self-Love Discovering Self-Love The Surprising Thing about Self-Love Chapter 6: Cultivating Self-Love and Self-Worth Accepting Yourself in Your Being Speaking to Yourself with Kindness Loving Yourself with Your Actions Chapter 7: Obstacles to Self-Love and Self-Worth Obstacles to Self-Love Arising from the Self Obstacles Arising from the Other Obstacles Arising from the Community, System, and Culture

9 The Second Path: Another Chapter 8: Love and Worth for Another The Meaning of Life Mirrored Worth Different Types of Allies Chapter 9: Cultivating Love and Worth for Another Pay Attention to Love We Accept and Love Another's Whole Self as Worthy We Speak to Each Other with Love We Choose to Love with Our Actions Chapter 10: Obstacles to Loving Another and Recognizing Their Worth Obstacles to Connection from the Self Obstacles to Connection from Another Obstacles to Connection from Communities, Systems, and Cultures

10 The Third Path: Community of Work Chapter 11: Love and Worth at Work The Love Speech The Work of Elevating the Human Experience Chapter 12: Cultivating Love and Worth for Othersat Work We Accept All Others as Being Worthy We Speak to Others with Words of Kindness We Love All Others with Our Actions Chapter 13: Obstacles to Loving Others and Recognizing Their Worth at Work Obstacles to Loving Others at Work Arising from Within the Self Obstacles to Loving Others at Work Arising from Another Person Obstacles to Loving Others at Work Arising from the System

11 Resources Chapter 14: Tools to Elevate the Human Experience: Values, Emotions, and Trust Values Emotions Trust Chapter 15: Capabilities to Elevate the Human Experience: Empathy, Courage, Integrity, and Grace Empathy Courage Integrity Grace

12 Conclusion

13 Appendix ALove and Worth Quantitative Research Summary Results for All Questions

14 Appendix BReading Guide and Reflection Questions Foundations The First Path: Self The Second Path: Another The Third Path: Community of Work

15 Acknowledgments

16 About the Author

17 End User License Agreement

1 Cover Page

2 Title Page Elevating the Human Experience Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work By Amelia Dunlop

3 Copyright

4 Dedication

5 Preface

6 Introduction

7 Table of Contents

8 Begin Reading

9 Conclusion

10 Appendix A

11 Appendix B

12 Acknowledgments

13 About the Author

14 WILEY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

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“Elevating the Human Experience offers a roadmap for bringing our whole selves through the door at work to forge richer relationships and to create more affirming work environments.”

—Enshalla Anderson,Global Head of Brand Strategy, Google Cloud

“This is an outrageously intelligent and heartfelt book. Women will identify with Amelia, and men will learn important secrets from her.”

—Thomas Moore,author of Care of the Soul and Soul Therapy

“Brilliant and brave. Brilliant because of the stories, models, and applications that compose Elevating the Human Experience . Brave because it is a rarely discussed truth that love is the unseen guiding force in all great work. Amelia Dunlop bridges the most human of all emotions with the desire for worth and purpose in a new and profound way. One of the most original books of its kind in years.”

—David Baum,PhD, DMin, author of Lightning in a Bottle , Proven Lessons for Leading Change , and The Randori Principles

“By organizing this incisively original, deeply personal meditation around the vital concepts of love and worth, Amelia Dunlop takes her place among the truly distinctive thinkers to have addressed this most important of questions: enhancing lived human experience.”

—Rogan Kersh,Provost and Professor, Wake Forest University

“Amelia Dunlop makes the bold proposition that we should be the same person at work as we are at home. She adds the equally bold idea that love (of self and others) should be a part of our work lives. Through her own vulnerability in these pages, she invites us to open up, to connect, and to adopt the radical idea that we can be fully human, even in that place we call ‘work.’ This book is for managers and the managed, for-profit and nonprofit, secular corporations and religious institutions, companies big and small—any organization that wants team members to think creatively, speak boldly, work passionately, collaborate deeply, and actually thrive at work.”