Your compassion fix |
This week Te Aorangi Kowhai-Morini introduces us to a traditional Māori practice designed to cultivate a sense of warmth and kindness for ourselves and others.
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Featured blog: The keys to a more caring world lie within us |
In this weeks featured blog, Global Compassion
Coalition Board member Lynne Reeder explains why the keys to a compassionate world lie within all of us. By cultivating compasson for ourselves and others, Lynne argues, we can become the messangers and deliverers of change.
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Stories of compassion |
Studies show that loneliness and isolation is increasing across all age groups. One supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Jumbo, is helping to combat that unsettling trend. By opening checkout queues specifically for people who want to chat to staff or others waiting to have their shopping scanned, they are creating a space for connection.
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Why a happier world is possible
Founder of the Eurasia Foundation, a visiting professor, and former Director of the Gross National Happiness Centre in Bhutan Ha Vinh Tho joins our Executive Chair Jennifer Nadel in a discussion about happiness: what it is, how we can cultivate it, and why governments have a role in spreading it.
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In the spotlight |
This week we throw the spotlight on GCC Board Prof Paul Gilbert. Paul is a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Derby, founder of the Compassionate Mind Foundation, and an individual who has done an enormous amount to establish and further our understanding of compassion. Click here to watch him speak on our recent panel on compassion as a catalyst for change.
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