ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how and why contemplative principles and practices provide crucial tools and skills for realigning attitudes and actions when moving into and through service burnout. Explaining these choice-making values and skills, the chapter breaks stymied service’s grip on personal and communal problem-solving capacities for next steps. A range of scientific and broader academic research on contemplative approaches to decision-making further supports the book’s innovative approach to burnout as a source of resilience in service. Clarifying and leveraging underused and untapped contemplative perspectives, activities, and values, the chapter highlights how these tools and skills become bridges from burnout’s raw struggle to reconstructive and/or new work.
