Experience loving-kindess |
Metta, the experience of loving-kindness, is one of the most popular forms of meditation. Through it we can cultivate that warm, safe, and energizing feeling of benevolence and generosity for others and for ourselves. Allow yourself to be enveloped in that feeling by this practice from Spring Washam.
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Medicine for the heart |
When we're experiencing competing pressures and bearing witness to the suffering in the world around us, it can feel hard to find space for play, fun, and frivolity. But, as this blog from Corby Caffrey-Dobosh explains, doing so is so important for our wellbeing. It takes out of the space of "doing mode" and into "being mode", allowing us to replenish our mental and emotional energy.
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Share a video about your work |
One of the priority missions for the GCC is to create a platform where we can celebrate and champion the work of our members. To help with this, we will be using our launch to
showcase video clips that highlight what you do to spread and embed compassion. Hit the link below to send us a video - perhaps news footage, an intro film, or social media clip - that tells the world about your work.
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A toy story |
Disaster responses have to not only consider how they provide emergency care and life-saving treatment to those affected but also offer compassion and kindness so as to try and mitigate possible trauma. That is why this story from Turkey - where football fans offered a wonderful gesture of support to children impacted by the recent quakes - is so powerful.
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#CompassionNow: A global gathering for compassion
Come together with compassion practitioners, researchers, politicians, and activists including Ruby Wax, Marianne Williamson, Mpho Tutu, and Jack Kornfield as together we celebrate the power of compassion and organize to spread it to every corner of society.
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In the spotlight |
As well as being on the GCC Board, Julia is Program Director at the Gross National Happiness Centre Bhutan. She has worked as a physician and researcher in Africa and Asia, before serving with UNDP and UNICEF in New York. She brings a background in leadership development, research and policy in the fields of wellbeing economics, global health, and sustainable development.
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