Reading List
There's a growing list of books, articles, and research on the need to fall fallow. There are also tools that help rekindle the fire within like nature therapy and peer support. Check back for updates regularly.
Burnout
- Are You Too Responsible?, Harvard Business Review, Dina Smith, July 20, 2022.
- 5 Subtle Signs You're Heading for Burnout, Stephanie Vozza, Fast Company, 3/10/22.
- Your Body Knows You're Burntout, New York Times, Melinda Wenner Moyer, 2/15/22.
- The End of Burnout, Jonathan Malesic, 2022.
- Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World, Shelly Tygielski, November 2021.
- Your Burnout is Unique. Your Recovery Will be Too, Yu Tse Heng & Kira Schabram, 4/12/21.
- Burnout from an Organizational Perspective, Leah Weiss, Stanford Social Innovation Review, 10/20/20.
- Why the WHO's Decision to Redefine Burnout is Important, Juli Fraga, 6/5/2019.
- Burnout in Now Officially a Workplace Crisis, Arianna Huffington, 6/3/19.
- Einstein's Most Effective Life Hack Wasn't about Productivity, Mayo Oshin, 12/3/18.
The Nature Remedy
- Experiment Shows What 1 Hour in Nature Does to the Human Brain, ScienceAlert, 9/22/22.
- Doctors in Canada Can Now Prescribe Park Passes to Patients, Washington Post, 2/7/2022.
- The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, Florence Williams, 2/7/17.
- Leadership Development the Way Nature Intended, Beverly Winterscheid, 8/18/16.
- How Nature Can Heal Burnout, Greg Nemes, 5/20.
- Getting Back to Nature: How Forest Bathing Can Make Us Feel Better, Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian, 6/8/19,
- Science Agrees, Nature is Good for You, 2021.
- What is Human Rewilding? Rewildu.com, 2013
Rest
- Wintering, The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, Katherine May, 2021
- Opinion | The Most Valuable Thing I Can Teach My Kids is How to be Lazy, January 20, 2022.
- Do Nothing, Celest Headlee, Harmony Books, 2020.
- In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russell, 1932.
- Rest is Not Idleness: Implications of the Brain's Default Mode for Human Development and Education, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Joanna A Christodoulou and Vanessa Singh, 7/1/2012.
- The Prepared Mind: The Importance of Going Fallow by Christine Haskell Ph.D., 5/29/19.
- Resilience is Like the Flu: It's Contagious, Nick Arnett, 1/21/18
- When Being Unproductive Saves a Career, New York Times, Courtney E Martin, 1/18/18.
Peer Support
- The Secret to Building Resilience, Rob Cross, Karen Dillion and Danna Greenberg, 1/29/21.
- The Power of Positive People: Are Your Friendships Giving You a Boost or Bringing You Down? Tara Parker Hope, New York Times, 7/10/18.
- Leading Well is a Matter of Resources: Leader Vigour and Peer Support Augments the Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Burnout, Susanne Tafvelin, Karina Nielsen, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz & Andreas Stenling, 3/11/19