What we get wrong about Accountability

Have you ever tried to extend compassion across the gender divide and felt your whole body tense up? Like you’re being asked to repeat the same exhausting pattern – absorbing someone else’s experience, silencing your own needs, letting behaviour slide because you’re supposed to be understanding? Or maybe you’ve watched someone bristle when offered compassion, deflecting it like it’s weakness they can’t afford to show?

“Culturally, women are expected to extend compassion, and men are rarely socialized to receive it,” explained Dr. Paige Williams – author of “Own It” and leadership expert. “What we all need is a more nuanced, more skilled, more boundaried understanding of how compassion and accountability work together so we can leverage this act of love for ourselves, for others, for what’s possible between us.”

For a full description visit The ‘Good Girl’ Game Changers podcast with Michelle McQuaid.