St. Theresas College in its continuing celebration of the 80th year of its establishment launched the works of Dr. Dulce Jesus Lesugues-Baricuatro and Ms. Desiree L. Balota on September 7.

Leading with Heart & Soul, Fostering Workplace Spirituality is a very logical flowering from Dulces training and work. She has been a professor of Theology and Gender Studies and Leadership Formation. She is described as the Champion-Advocate of the STC Vision Mission and Values; heads the Christian Formation Program, facilitates recollections and seminar-workshops on leadership and values formation.

Dulce states that the handbook was inspired by the results of her research with women leaders from different organizations. She had tried to find out how these women had fostered workplace spirituality in their organizations.

The writer says her work is a response to the more demanding fast-paced, stressful, ambiguous, chaotic atmosphere employees have to cope with. She offers the book as a humble attempt to design a simple recipe that integrates rich Filipino cultural values and Christian values in fostering workplace spirituality in the Philippine context.

So she actually declares the following purposes of the book: to serve as a guide for leaders interested in developing workplace spirituality; to encourage leaders especially women leaders to be catalysts of change towards the transformation of society by starting with their workplaces; to highlight the positive aspects of Filipino values and the Christian values in fostering workplace spirituality; and to provide some points for leaders reflection on their leadership.

It is really to provide a glimpse of the book that I have included many quotes, and to focus on the fact that the guide brings out the voices of women leaders here in our city, thus affirming women, their practices in the workplace, and their great potential as sources of innovation and renewal for our communities.

The first section, Shepherding includes Value the Person; Get Close and Personal; and Build Bridges not Walls. Thoughts from the women leaders:

Architect Melva R. Java: Architects must understand human needs and human design and the social component of design in addition to technology.

Dr. Carmelita T. Dulangon: During lunchtime, I eat with my co-workers, so I can talk to them and I would know whats in their mind and heart.

The second main section, Transforming and Serving includes: Bring Out the Best, Listen to Learn and Empathize. From the women leaders:

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