Author Reading: Dr. Melissa Bird, Leading from the Heart

BOLD is thrilled to host author, lay preacher, and activist Dr. Melissa Bird for a reading of her book, Leading from the Heart.

During this event we will explore joyful activism and intuitive leadership and Melissa's call for all of us to engage our communities through love and compassion.

Leading from the Heart

We are at a precipice. And the old ways of leading, built on certainty, control, and the assumption that one person holds all the answers, are failing us.

Leading From the Heart is an invitation into what Dr. Melissa Bird calls the Graceful Revolution. Not the leadership of seven habits and five-step frameworks, but something older and more honest: the recognition that we are all grieving, that we do not have all the answers, and that the both/and is always richer than the either/or. Dr. Bird challenges leaders, CEOs, policymakers, and anyone in a position of influence to release binary thinking and lead from the soul outward.

This is leadership as a spiritual practice. As a collective act. What institutions are only now beginning to discover, communities have always known: that people do not want to be managed or assumed about. They want to be heard. They want connection. Sometimes, they just want hot lasagna.

Leading From the Heart is is a call for revolutionary compassion at the exact moment the world needs it most.

Dr. Melissa Bird is a descendant of the Shivwits Band of Paiutes and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community. She is an internationally recognized lay preacher, author, healer, and podcaster who has spent nearly 3 decades teaching workshops on spiritual and social justice and revolution. She lives in Corvallis, OR with her family.

Arrive at 6:30 p.m. to grab a snack or drink. The event will start at 7:00 p.m.

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Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.