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How can communities be compassionate?

Ron Anderson | 2012-03-26

Community in the narrow sense is a neighborhood or a cluster of neighborhoods. But in the broad sense of the word, community encompasses small groups, including the family,

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The Compassion Superficiality Quiz

Ron Anderson | 2012-03-20

Is your compassion only “ribbon deep”? Do you worry about the possibility that your compassionate actions are insincere? Or do you just want to explore the possibility of

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Mindfulness becomes Mainstream

Ron Anderson | 2012-03-20

Mindfulness has reached a milestone in its evolution as a social movement. Mindful.org and Omega Institute, lined up Jon Kabat-Zinn (see photo on right), Congressman Time Ryan, and

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Awareness & Mindfulness as Foundations of Compassion

Ron Anderson | 2012-03-20

The state of being mentally and emotionally sensitized to an object of suffering constitutes the first stepping stone of compassion as a process. This step has been called

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The Compassionate Listening Project

Ron Anderson | 2012-03-19

The Compassionate Listening Project teaches skills for peacemaking that can be utilized in our every day lives with a goal of social change both locally and internationally. This

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Suffering can be the Seeds of your Strength

Cheri Maples | 2012-01-27

After 25 years of police and criminal justice work, Cheri Maples co-founded the Center for Mindfulness & Justice to coordinate her work in criminal justice training, organizational consulting,

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Why do we often fail to fund adequate disaster relief?

Ron Anderson | 2010-07-17

“The worst disaster ever seen,” said the UN Secretary General today in describing the Pakistan floods in the summer of 2010. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has seen