6. Healing Burnout in the Social Impact Sector with Laura Hartley
- Alex Leonard
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
In the environmental sector, we often act as if the climate crisis is the only thing that’s urgent.
We treat our own energy like a natural resource to be endlessly extracted, assuming our compassion and motivation will always be there on demand. But as my guest Laura Hartley points out, burnout is a result of the way we work, not the work itself.
Since publishing, Laura has recently transitioned her work from the Centilla Center brand to a powerful new direction: Public Love Enterprises. This shift represents a move toward "well-being economics", a vision for a world not based on scarcity, but on the abundance of human connection and regenerative systems.
As a practitioner who has worn many hats, I’m acting as your human filter to bring you the "proof of work" behind Laura’s mission to help change-makers level up their internal skillsets.
If you are feeling the weight of this moment, Laura’s work is the curated guide you need to move from "saving the earth" to transforming your practice.
Her approach isn't about generic self-care like bubble baths; it’s about the hard, necessary work of setting boundaries.
To help Laura move this vision forward and to evolve your own craft, I highly recommend engaging with her latest offerings:
Internal Revolution: A deep dive into unlearning the "internalized capitalism" that equates your worth with your output, helping you heal from the burnout cycles that deplete our movements.
Cultural Wayfinding: A six-month inner leadership journey designed to help you claim your power and navigate the transition toward the world you want to see.
The Public Love Project: Her own podcast where she facilitates the "H2H" (Human-to-Human) conversations that actually matter in a world of AI-generated noise.
The secret sauce for 2026 is moving away from the "YouTube rabbit hole" of generic advice and toward specific authority.
By supporting Laura’s growth at Public Love Enterprises, you are unlearning the conditioning that keeps us exhausted, and instead, you are planting the seeds of something beautiful. In 2025, Laura opened the Scintilla Centre in London, UK. The space is a wisdom centre for the work of remaking the world.
Her work explores what it takes to navigate from the world "as it is" (polycrisis, collapse) to the world "as it could be" (one more just, caring and regenerative. Laura run workshops, courses and events integrating leadership, nonviolence, inner work, systems thinking and creative imagination in practice.
Visit laurahartley.com to join her community and start your own inner revolution.
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