Alessandra Pigni

psychologist, writer, inner activist

I accompany idealists and organisations through crisis and transition, from burnout to resilience

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Burnout is not just too much stress

June 19, 2018 by Alessandra Pigni

“Burnout does not start with stress but with loss of commitment and moral purpose,” wrote burnout expert Ayala Pines, who equates stress with strain and burnout with loss of meaning. We burn out when we no longer believe that the things we do are useful and important.

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June 19, 2018 /Alessandra Pigni
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On Work

May 31, 2018 by Alessandra Pigni

On Work, a poem by Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran

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May 31, 2018 /Alessandra Pigni
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The new slaves?

May 31, 2018 by Alessandra Pigni

Why burnout is a social, political and ethical problem

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Yutori

May 01, 2018 by Alessandra Pigni

Avoid burnout by making space and time - in Japan they call it yutori

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Storage

April 24, 2018 by Alessandra Pigni

15 April, 2018. I wake up and feel like having a spiritual pause on this Sunday, so I take a book of poems by Mary Oliver, open it on a random page and this is what I receive today. From the book Felicity.

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DAYS OF HONEY, DAYS OF ONIONS

April 10, 2018 by Alessandra Pigni in aid kit

"This too shall pass" —attributed to Sufi poet Attar of Nishapur

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April 10, 2018 /Alessandra Pigni
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I AM NOT MY JOB

March 22, 2018 by Alessandra Pigni in aid kit

I tell my students, “When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” —Toni Morrison

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IMPERMANENCE IN ACTION

March 21, 2018 by Alessandra Pigni in aid kit
‘No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.’ ― Heraclitus
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March 21, 2018 /Alessandra Pigni
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