“It’s Being, Not Doing”

When Not Thinking Leads to Being and Doing: Stereotype Suppression and the Self

Suppressing stereotypes often results in more stereotype use, an effect attributed to heightened stereotype activation. The authors report two experiments examining the consequences of suppression on two self-relevant outcomes: the active selfconcept and overt behavior. Participants who suppressed stereotypes incorporated stereotypic traits into their self-concepts and demonstrated stereotype-c...

Being While Doing: An Inductive Model of Mindfulness at Work

Mindfulness at work has drawn growing interest as empirical evidence increasingly supports its positive workplace impacts. Yet theory also suggests that mindfulness is a cognitive mode of "Being" that may be incompatible with the cognitive mode of "Doing" that undergirds workplace functioning. Therefore, mindfulness at work has been theorized as "being while doing," but little is known regardin...

Being AND Doing: The Challenge of Integrating Domains

Over a period of four years, our peer partnership has afforded us deep learning opportunities. In this paper, we reflect on a stage of transition within the original group and bring insights to bear on other participatory situations from which we can learn. Bakan’s concepts of agency and communion provide a structure for this reflection. The insight gained is that transitions in relationship be...

Doing Good, Being Good, and the Social Construction of Compassion

Being community-responsive physicians. Doing the right thing.

OBJECTIVE To explore how primary care physicians respond to a community's needs and challenges. DESIGN Qualitative study using focus groups. SETTING Fee-for-service practices or community health centres in downtown Toronto, Ont. PARTICIPANTS Purposive sample of 21 community family physicians (10 women and 11 men). METHOD Participants were invited to join focus groups of four to six phys...