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www.charterforcompassion.org | August 19, 2017If you aren’t outraged, you aren’t paying attention. ~Susan Bro

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. - Nelson Mandela.

Violence is what happens when we don’t know what else to do with our suffering. ~Parker Palmer

We will stand in solidarity! Charlottesville, VA and Venezuela
We mourn for Ruth Pfau and with the people of Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Spain and Finland
We remain resilient!

Mark Your Calendar

The Charter for Compassion Education Institute in conjunction with our partner sectors works to provide courses, conference calls and webinars for our membership throughout the year. Featured to the left is a picture of Jordan Hattar who will be presenting a special webinar, Follow Your Heart,on September 26, 8 am PT. Learn more about this talk, offered primarily, but not solely for students. We have another special Global Read, Petey, with author Ben Mikaelsen, on October 24th, 8 am PT. Learn about these an other offerings by clicking on the links below:

Charter for Compassion Education Institute Course: Engaging Compassion Through Intent and Action. Starts August 28th. Learn more and register.
Social Justice Sector Webinar: Immigration Challenges and Responses to those Challenges with host, Patty Williams, August 29, 8 am, Pacific. Learn more and register.
Women and Girls Sector Webinar: Mitigating Fear within a Community: Terrorism and Refugees, September 6, 8 am Pacific. Learn more and register.
Global Read: One Wholesome World with author Arun Wakhlu, September 19, 8 am, Pacific. Learn more and register.
Education and Social Justice Sector Webinar: Follow Your Heart, September 26, 8 am Pacific. Learn more and register.
Global Read sponsored by Education and Healthcare Sectors Webinar: Petey with author Ben Mikaelsen, October 24, 8 am, Pacific. Learn more and register.

Charter for Compassion for Sale!

In the picture above the community of Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico celebrates the affirmation of the Charter for Compassion last week. We've started working with folks in Charlottesville, VA, Columbus, OH, Westchester, NY and responded to new inquiries from Iraq and France. We are ready to work with your city. Compassion is for sale and at the right price. Your local involvement can help begin to change the world.

As you know, the Charter works with partners in twelve sectors. Our environment coordinator, Kate Trnka has asked that we make an announcement that the environment sector is looking for a small group of individuals to help guide their work. We also need volunteer help in the Arts, Education and Healthcare sectors. Interested? Please contact us about community initiatives or your potential involvement in working with any of our sectors.

Help us get to know you and your thoughts about "What Makes a Compassionate City?" Add your essay and picture to this project. Learn more.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Leadership Opportunities

If you are interested in helping us achieve our goals of improving conditions and advancing solutions for women and girls, please join us. We are currently looking for leadership in the following areas of expertise;

Advancing Education for Girls in STEAMD (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math, Design)

Leading our Ambassador Program

Political Literacy Training

Update on our Current Leadership! As we carefully grow, expand, retract and expand again, we are constantly listening to our Ambassadors and our Partners to be in the highest service to the Charter for Compassion International through the lens of Women and Girls. Our Task Force has grown to include leadership serving various needs of our sector to that end.

We are currently looking for directors of Women and Girls in various cities and global regions. If you are interested in applying as a director sign up here. For further information contact Sande Hart.

Meet our New Directors

Anam Hijab, Director of Women and Girls Pakistan has enlisted the help of three volunteers, two women and one man, to take the work of the sector to universities. Adam is also planning to leave Pakistan to participate in a graduate program in Copenhagen. We wish her well and congratulations on making this move and her offer to recruit a replacement in Pakistan and to continue her work with the Charter in Denmark. Other regional directors are: Despina Namwembe in Africa; Joan Marie and Brenda Gustin, Co-directors of State Capital Region, CA, USA. Other directors include: Marquita Wilbon, social media and Betsey Spano, relationship outreach.

A Message from Marquita: It is important for me to work with women and girls because I want to show young girls how to start early in the process of accepting their bodies and being unapologetically themselves. I love working with women to further their knowledge in loving who they are and sharing that light with the next generation. ~ Marquita

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Find our more about Marquita and her organization Golden Glam Fairy.

We want the voice of Women and Girls heard! Will you share your idea of "What Makes a Compassionate City?" Learn more about this collaborative project and how you can lend your voice to others who have already submitted responses. Get your ideas published!

Upcoming Webinar Calls

Women and Girls Sector Offering: August 16 at 8 am Pacific Time
Loving Money with Mark Silver, M.Div., healer, and founder, Heart of Business

Mark is a fourth-generation entrepreneur who has run a distribution business, turned around a struggling non-profit magazine, and worked as a paramedic in the San Francisco Bay Area.He is the author of seven different in-depth programs and a number of other smaller teachings and classes for entrepreneurs. Together they form a comprehensive entrepreneurial wisdom academy curriculum. Learn more. Register.

Compassionate Cities Offering: Thursday: August 17, 8-9:30 am Pacific Time.

Many of our compassionate cities are working with homelessness, or it is an area of serious concern. We have asked two individuals from Salt Lake City to address how they have been involved with the homelessness issue. John Kesler is founder and president of the Salt Lake Civil Network (SLCN), an organization that supports interrelated individual and community flourishing and evolution in a global environment. Camille Winnie is executive director of the Salt Lake Civil Network, and a homelessness consultant with many years of experience. She is involved in and/or deeply knowledgeable regarding all efforts that are happening in the Salt Lake City area and County and Utah generally.

The call will be facilitated by Howard Mason, Compassionate Louisville and New Possibilities Associates.

This will be an interactive call. Questions will be taken after the presentation and Howard will facilitate a discussion. We are looking forward to your participation and involvement.

Click here to join the call. There is no pre-registration for the call. Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16465588656,791371687# or +14086380968,79137168.

Social Justice Sector Offering: August 29, 2017 at 8 am Pacific Time

Join the Charter for Compassion Social Justice Sector for the third in a series of webinars exploring the topics surrounding immigration and the refugee crisis. The panel will include actions of the The Northwest Arkansas Workers’ Justice Center (NWAWJC) which is a non-profit organization that assists the least empowered residents of Arkansas low wage workers. Through advocacy, organizing, and education, NWAWJC seeks to help workers to help themselves obtaining safe workplaces and fair wages. Register here.

Charter for Compassion Education Institute

New Course: Engaging Compassion Through Intent & Action

Starts August 28, 2017. Register Now. Learn more about the course.

Program Purpose: This four week course provides the framework to create a personalized bridge to increase awareness of the connection between intent and action. By mindfully walking the bridge of intent and action, compassion becomes a lived experience or first response.
Goals:

participants understand how the conscious and unconscious connections between intent and action informs our interactions
participants identify their unique lived experiences of compassion (how they alleviate or are hindered in alleviating suffering)
participants develop a contemplative practice that encourages mindful awareness of compassion opportunities and empowers the courageous compassion response

Facilitator: Vanessa F. Hurst is a Mindful Coach, Compassion Consultant, Professional Speaker, and Author who weaves her inner wisdom into all she touches. Her books are A Constellation of Connections: Contemplative Relationships and Engaging Compassion Through Intent & Action.

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	Newsletter July 30, 2017
	WE ARE LIVE





	THREE SOCIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES

	The last few weeks we have told you that our Social Justice sector team was working on several initiatives and they are now on-line and waiting for your comments, ideas and input. The first is our new handbook: Seeing and Working Through the Heart. This handbook is divided into four parts: Creating and Developing Awareness; Educating, Informing and Creating Inspiration; Skills Development and Activities, and Practice. Launching the handbook is a beginning to our work and we hope it will continue to grow with input from many of you. The second effort that the team has tackled is re-create an on line version of Dangerous Memories, a book that former social commentator Studs Terkel called a dangerous book that presents “bottom-up history challenging the trickle-down version we have so long been spoon fed.” Faith Smith, of the Ojibway/Chippewa Nation, spoke to how the book “[Pulls together a history we don’t know.” The third initiative for the group is to continue to expand the Identity, Dignity and Compassionate Inclusivity series (see next webinar below).


	COURSES AND WEBINARS Women & Girls Sector Offering: Living the New Economy, August 2, 2017, 8:00 AM, Pacific Time Guest Speaker: Nicole Moen, Visionary, Speaker, Coach, Activist & Event Producer. As a serial founder of leading-edge organizations and projects, Nicole’s initiatives range from the BodyHeals Integrative Medicine events and Animate Community Inc., to the Victoria Community Health Cooperative and the Healing Cities Institute Society, all of which she co-founded. In 2012, she founded the Living the New Economy events which she co-developed and co-produces. LNE grew from a gradual instant in May 2012 when she understood that the dominant financial system underpinned fundamental issues in every context she’d worked and lived. Host: Lisa Berkley, Reaction to Response Coordinator, Women and Girls Charter Sector Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Social Justice Sector Offering: Refugee Resettlement, August 8, 2017, 8:00 AM, Pacific Time In our second webinar, we will explore the refugee crisis from an international and local perspective. Guests: Emily Crane Linn is the Executive Director of Canopy of Northwest Arkansas, a new resettlement agency established in Fayetteville, AR, USA and Gejsi Cangonji, is the Matching Grant Senior Program Officer for the International Resettlement Committee (IRC). In her position Gejsi provides technical assistance in early employment programs and supports field offices in achieving the programmatic objectives of the Matching Grant economic empowerment program. The program serves more than 4,800 refugees each year, supporting them on their way to economic self-sufficiency. Learn more. Host: Katherine van Uum Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. EXPRESS YOURSELF You've been responding and it is exciting to see your writing. A few weeks ago we announced a new year-long project with the Excellence Reporter. The project is titled, “What Makes a Compassionate City?” We are asking for each of you, whether you live within a compassionate city initiative or not, but can contemplate on what would make your community more compassionate, to put your thoughts in writing. We would like for you to think deeply about the overall question. This is about what you perceive to be the essence of a compassionate city. We also offered three more questions for you to develop in your writing: 1) What makes a compassionate city/community?, 2) How do you measure compassion?, and 3) What do you do to contribute to creating a more compassionate community and world? We are asking for a minimum of 250 words and a maximum of 900. See essays by those who have contributed and directions for participation. Dear Friends: We need your help. I know we ask each week for you to consider giving financial support to the work of the Charter for Compassion. Some of you do, and that is wonderful. We need to hire at least one more person, if not two to follow through with all the work we are being asked to do by our community. If every person who received this newsletter could commit to $5.00 a month for a year that would mean our budget would be 4X what it is now. Our capacity to help with organizing compassionate cities and working to strengthen our network would be immense. Of course, we know that this may be a dream, but the Charter exists because of a dream to fulfill the intent of the Golden Rule, and to move towards creating a more compassionate world. Donate what you can to move the dream to reality. Share this newsletter

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Three Social Justice Initiatives

The last few weeks we have told you that our Social Justice sector team was working on several initiatives and they are now on-line and waiting for your comments, ideas and input. The first is our new handbook: Seeing and Working Through the Heart. This handbook is divided into four parts: Creating and Developing Awareness; Educating, Informing and Creating Inspiration; Skills Development and Activities, and Practice. Launching the handbook is a beginning to our work and we hope it will continue to grow with input from many of you. The second effort that the team has tackled is re-create an on line version of Dangerous Memories, a book that former social commentator Studs Terkel called a dangerous book that presents “bottom-up history challenging the trickle-down version we have so long been spoon fed.” Faith Smith, of the Ojibway/Chippewa Nation, spoke to how the book “[Pulls together a history we don’t know.” The third initiative for the group is to continue to expand the Identity, Dignity and Compassionate Inclusivity series (see next webinar below).

Courses and Webinars Women & Girls Sector Offering: Living the New Economy, August 2, 2017, 8:00 AM, Pacific Time Guest Speaker: Nicole Moen, Visionary, Speaker, Coach, Activist & Event Producer. As a serial founder of leading-edge organizations and projects, Nicole’s initiatives range from the BodyHeals Integrative Medicine events and Animate Community Inc., to the Victoria Community Health Cooperative and the Healing Cities Institute Society, all of which she co-founded. In 2012, she founded the Living the New Economy events which she co-developed and co-produces. LNE grew from a gradual instant in May 2012 when she understood that the dominant financial system underpinned fundamental issues in every context she’d worked and lived. Host: Lisa Berkley, Reaction to Response Coordinator, Women and Girls Charter Sector Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Social Justice Sector Offering: Refugee Resettlement, August 8, 2017, 8:00 AM, Pacific Time In our second webinar, we will explore the refugee crisis from an international and local perspective. Guests: Emily Crane Linn is the Executive Director of Canopy of Northwest Arkansas, a new resettlement agency established in Fayetteville, AR, USA and Gejsi Cangonji, is the Matching Grant Senior Program Officer for the International Resettlement Committee (IRC). In her position Gejsi provides technical assistance in early employment programs and supports field offices in achieving the programmatic objectives of the Matching Grant economic empowerment program. The program serves more than 4,800 refugees each year, supporting them on their way to economic self-sufficiency. Learn more. Host: Katherine van Uum Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Express Yourself You've been responding and it is exciting to see your writing. A few weeks ago we announced a new year-long project with the Excellence Reporter. The project is titled, “What Makes a Compassionate City?” We are asking for each of you, whether you live within a compassionate city initiative or not, but can contemplate on what would make your community more compassionate, to put your thoughts in writing. We would like for you to think deeply about the overall question. This is about what you perceive to be the essence of a compassionate city. We also offered three more questions for you to develop in your writing: 1) What makes a compassionate city/community?, 2) How do you measure compassion?, and 3) What do you do to contribute to creating a more compassionate community and world? We are asking for a minimum of 250 words and a maximum of 900. See essays by those who have contributed and directions for participation. Dear Friends: We need your help. I know we ask each week for you to consider giving financial support to the work of the Charter for Compassion. Some of you do, and that is wonderful. We need to hire at least one more person, if not two to follow through with all the work we are being asked to do by our community. If every person who received this newsletter could commit to $5.00 a month for a year that would mean our budget would be 4X what it is now. Our capacity to help with organizing compassionate cities and working to strengthen our network would be immense. Of course, we know that this may be a dream, but the Charter exists because of a dream to fulfill the intent of the Golden Rule, and to move towards creating a more compassionate world. Donate what you can to move the dream to reality. Share this newsletter

Re-Greening the World

in memory of Elias Karisa Katana

Green World Campaign Students and Mentors

Over the last week, Marc Barasch, founder of the Green World Campaign (GWC) and I have shared several e-mails that taken in their entirety were overwhelming sad and emotional. Nonetheless, the on-going story of GWC is positive and life-transforming for hundreds of thousands of people. The Charter for Compassion and Green World, an effort to re-green the world in one generation, are partners and we have worked closely together for the last few years. Marc wrote to announce the shocking news that Elias Karisa Katana, a most stalwart and hardworking local manager of GWC was murdered in front of his children while protecting a Green World community garden from night-time marauders. Elias was a man who identified so strongly with GWC, as a Kenyan and as a global citizen, that he dedicated his life to "green compassion." He died wearing his GWC T-shirt.

For 12 years now, the Green World Campaign has planted trees and practiced regenerative eco-agriculture in ways that benefit both people and planet, in 9 countries on 3 continents. In Kenya, the award-winning African headquarters, 2.5 million trees have been planted; 100 school programs that teach global citizenship, conflict resolution, and eco-awareness have been started, and where children learn to plant seedbed nurseries with nutritious tree species. There has been interfaith work; permaculture education; "green charcoal" projects; watershed restoration; women's social enterprise; conservation of sacred forests; food security initiatives; a youth-led Trees for Peace movement and a Compassion Games "co-opetition." The inspiration of GWC's work has spread from a "Text TREE" installation in Times Square worldwide.

GWC is one of 1700 Charter for Compassion Partners. Can you imagine the collective work that all of these partners are doing to make for a better world. Each of these partners, as with GWC, are putting compassion into action. Learn more about GWC and its Charter, visit their website. If you are interested in re-greening the world start working locally to effect change globally. Organize through your local communities and if want to explore your ideas, please contact Kate Trnka, our new volunteer coordinator. If you are connected to a business or foundation who would like to help support a proposal GWC and the Charter have ready to go, please let us know.

With much appreciation,

Marilyn

Marilyn Turkovich, Director
Charter for Compassion International

Karen Armstrong awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

Thinker, writer scholar and founder of the Charter for Compassion, Karen Armstrong has been awarded the prestigious Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences for 2017. The awards are a series of annual prizes awarded in Spain by the Princess of Asturias Foundation (previously the Prince of Asturias Foundation) to individuals, entities or organizations from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, and public affairs. The prize was established on 24 September 1980 by the then twelve-year-old Felipe, Prince of Asturias, heir to the throne of Spain, " to contribute to, encourage and promote scientific, cultural and humanistic values that form part of mankind's universal heritage." The awards are presented at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the capital of the Principality of Asturias. A sculpture, expressly created for the prize by Spanish sculptor Joan Miró, is presented yearly to the recipients of the prize. Previous winners include Mary Beard, David Attenborough and Raymond Carr.

Courses and Webinars

Social Justice Sector Offering: Immigration: US- Mexico Border, July 25, 2017, 8:00 AM Pacific Time

Guest Speaker: Astid Dominguez is the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Policy Strategist for Immigrants Rights. She works on state and federal immigration issues. She will bring her insight to the issues of immigration between the Mexican and US borders. There will be a period for questions.

Host: Jack Youngkin,Compassionate Dallas-Ft. Worth (Texas, USA)

Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Women and Girls Sector Offering: Living the New Economy, August 2, 2017, 8:00 AM, Pacific Time

Guest Speaker: Nicole Moen, Visionary, Speaker, Coach, Activist & Event Producer. As a serial founder of leading-edge organizations and projects, Nicole’s initiatives range from the BodyHeals Integrative Medicine events and Animate Community Inc., to the Victoria Community Health Cooperative and the Healing Cities Institute Society, all of which she co-founded. In 2012, she founded the Living the New Economy events which she co-developed and co-produces. LNE grew from a gradual instant in May 2012 when she understood that the dominant financial system underpinned fundamental issues in every context she’d worked and lived.

Host: Lisa Berkley, Reaction to Response Coordinator, Women and Girls Charter Sector

Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Charter for Compassion Education Institute in Conjunction with Spirituality and Practice: Navigating Life's Transitions, July 21 to August 25, 2017

In this four-week e-course, explore the dynamics of transition and the importance to our well being of working with themes as they unfold in us. You will receive 12 emails on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Throughout our lives we experience many transitions — passages between one social role and another as well as passages between one stage in our inner growth and the next stage that seeks to emerge. Such passages catalyze and support our growth as human beings and as contributing members of the larger communities of which we are a part.

Register here. Course led by Ron Pevny.

Charter for Compassion Education Institute: Emotional Intelligence and Compassion. Open Access Course. Register anytime.

Emotional Intelligence skills and competencies can become the fertile ground for a more compassionate world. The skills that contribute to the various components of Emotional Intelligence (self-awareness, self-management, awareness of and interaction with others, and resilience) may be viewed as foundational skills for the development of compassion--in individuals, in families, in the workplace, in communities, and in the interconnected societies of people throughout the world. Learn more about the course.

Register here. Course developer, Barbara Kerr.

Last week I stated that Compassionate Mexico was on the move. On July 13th, the city of Montemorelos affirmed the Charter. I also mentioned that the Social Justice sector was producing on a new volume, Seeing and Working Through the Heart: A Guide to Compassionate Social justice. It's done and now we will be working to put it on our website so that our community can continue to contribute to it. Join us as a volunteer, consider starting a compassionate community (we'll help), sponsor an event to introduce others to the Charter. Contact us. Donate to keep us moving forward.

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The Charter for Compassion Social Justice Sector, along with partner organizations, recognizes the need for improved holistic treatment of immigrants and refugees now in the face of international crises like Syria, West Africa, South Sudan, and the United States and in the future when the impact of global climate change will render basic resources increasingly scarce. To this end, we have assembled the Identity, Dignity, and Compassionate Inclusivity Webinar Series.
The purpose of this series is to provide accurate information and first-hand accounts of the international refugee and immigration crisis. We intend to offer this information in an attempt to empower individuals to make informed, compassionate, and care-based decisions regarding the treatment of refugees and immigrants. We hope this individual compassionate empowerment will collectively generate a systematic change in the integration of immigrants and refugees into the communities that welcome them.

This series will provide the platform to:

hear from experts who will interpret quantitative data regarding the current status of global
hear from community leaders who are working to meet and integrate international immigrants and refugees into their communities,
hear from immigrants and refugees to learn more about the most pressing concerns of the immigration and refugee crisis from a first-hand perspective.

Immigration: US- Mexico Border

Host: Jack Youngkin,Compassionate Dallas-Ft. Worth (Texas, USA)

When: Jul 25, 2017 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada). Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Express Yourself

Last week we announced a new project with the Excellence Reporter. Our project is titled, “What Makes a Compassionate City?” We are asking for each of you, whether you live within a compassionate city initiative or not, but can contemplate on what would make your community more compassionate, to put your thoughts in writing. We would like for you to think deeply about the overall question. This is about what you perceive to be the essence of a compassionate city. We also offered three more questions for you to develop in your writing: 1) What makes a compassionate city/community?, 2) How do you measure compassion?, and 3) What do you do to contribute to creating a more compassionate community and world? We are asking for a minimum of 250 words and a maximum of 900.

Email your responses back to //" href="http://">Nicolae Tanase along with your consent. You may want to view the Privacy Policy of the Excellence Reporter and then simply write a statement that you are willing to have your photo and writing published on line. Include a high resolution jpeg or tiff (photo of you), a short bio, and the name (location) of your city/community, e.g. Austin, Texas, USA.

Speaking Publicly

The next call of the Women and Girls Sector Series, Reaction to Response is July 19 with Karin Erika Knipphals. Born in Germany, Karin has lived in the US in 1982-83 as an AFS exchange student, she continued to travel between the two countries, then migrated to California in 2013.

Karin received training as a professional coach, professional singer and has a degree in professional translation (English/Spanish). She studied at Fachhochschule in Cologne, Germany and UCLA, USA. While studying, she also worked as a journalist for radio and television (news/feature). Since 1998, she has been a presentation skills and communication skills trainer and keynote speaker.

Today, she works in the US and Germany with companies and people from many different industries. Her main focus is on presentation skills training, mindful communication and mediation in conflict situations (corporate and private work with couples), media training (interview and talk show training), writing speeches, speech training, voice work and rhetoric for women and men. She also does seminars with large groups, one-on-one and two-on-one coaching and training. Register for the call, July 18, 8 am PT.

WORKING TOGETHER

Compassionate Mexico is on the move. Two new cities, Allende and Cadereyta Jimenez in the state of Nuevo Leon have affirmed the Charter. Australia is working hard to make itself the first Compassionate Continent and there is a race to see which U.S. state will be the first to affirm the Charter for Compassion. The Charter's Social Justice sector is working on its series of webinars and will issue a new on-line book in the next month or so. Months of toil has gone into its production. Since it is an on-line publication, we'll be looking to you, our members to make suggestions and contribute to its practical use. Join us as a volunteer, consider starting a compassionate community (we'll help), sponsor an event to introduce others to the Charter. Contact us. Donate to keep us moving forward.

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Charter for Compassion and Excellence Reporter Collaborate on a New Project

The Charter for Compassion is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the “What is the Meaning of Life” project and Nicolae Tanase, its founder, and Dr. Lesa Walker, founder of the Compassionate Austin movement. The Project is titled, “What Makes a Compassionate City?” You don’t have to be a part of a Charter Compassionate City initiative to participate. We want all Charter members to consider being a part of this informative project. Visit the Excellence Reporter website to see how dynamic past projects have been. You might also want to see Nicolae Tanase’s book What is the Meaning of Life? You’ll find interviews with leaders, thinkers, writers, laymen and people from all walks of life.

Would you be willing to contribute your thoughts to the Compassionate City Project? The process is very simple. Write down your insight on the following questions:

What makes a compassionate city/community?
How do you personally measure compassion?
What do you do to contribute to creating a more compassionate community and world?

Email your responses back to Nicolae Tanase along with your consent. You may want to view the Privacy Policy of the Excellence Reporter and then simply write a statement that you are willing to have your photo and writing published on line. Include a high resolution jpeg or tiff (photo of you), a short bio, and the name (location) of your city/community, e.g. Austin, Texas, USA.

Your response will be published online at Excellence Reporter. There are plans to publish a book of the responses received in the future. The world needs your insight, vision, wit and help on “What makes a Compassionate City?”

Charter for Compassion and The Media Coalition for Peace and Compassion Collaborate on a New Media Series

The Media Coalition for Peace and Compassion (MCPC) is being activated in partnership with the Charter of Compassion International to further the Charter’s existing mission of fostering a more compassionate world. The objective is to create a supportive environment for communicators to explore positive solutions to negative media trends, which are directly affecting personal well-being and democratic freedoms around the world. Because of these trends, our civic narrative has become increasingly reactionary and counter-productive. Our dealings with one another reflect this undercurrent as civic dialogues on issues affecting our collective future are marked by division, fear, blame, and mistrust. Solution-oriented narratives are needed to build bridges and to help us envision the world we know in our hearts is possible.

The Media Coalition for Peace and Compassionaim to bring together a diverse group of media organizations, visionaries, practitioners, theorists, and community storytelling facilitators who have a vision for restorative narrative as an antidote for the complex tensions of our times. We want to hear from those working in the field – to learn about challenges as well as what is working. First and foremost, our goal is to build community providing a safe place to gather while forming a collective intention to open up cross-sector perspectives and collaboration. This group will form discussions and webinars as well as provide resources for individuals, communities and partner organizations. To participate contact . Learn more about the series.

What's Happening at the Marketplace? Lots!

We have a large selection of Resources for Students and Teachers (and Parents). There are books, activity cards and friendship notes.

There are many more books in our Bookstore. Check out the offerings: books by Karen Armstrong, the Dalai Lama, Paul Gilbert and others. There is a wonderful sign welcoming neigbors and a compassion square to display in your home.

If you are working on a Compassionate City, you'll want to check out what we have available for teams and community members and Charter for Compassion items (i.e., Charter sign, water bottles, tote bags, mugs, magnets and computer laptop skins.

Take a Walk with history by purchasing Deep Talk Walk app, or look through our Personal Care items. There is an interesting selection of films, CDs by award winning children's singer, Susan Salidor and a nice selection of Clothing and Accessories.

The Marketplace reflects books that our members are reading or selections from our Global Read offerings. Also, as we are coming close to having 2000 partners we wanted a way to feature the “wares” of our partners and to help the Charter earn a fair percentage from each item sold. Many of these partners are owners of companies or are artists, writers, filmmakers and individuals who offer services. The Charter wanted a way to promote their good works. We invite you to browse through our Marketplace. Think about using the Marketplace when you are considering giving gifts or if you want something special for yourself.

Want to be a part of our Marketplace? Contact us. Learn more about our Marketplace policy.

Charter for Compassion Education Institute Course and Women and Girls Webinar

Course: Growing Words of Compassion: Nature and Writing Practices to Love By. Instructor: Jennifer Wilhoit. Course registration ends July 10.

This is the last call to register. Don’t be tricked by the fact that it’s a class: this four-week adventure will have you exploring life on the writing page and out of doors, too. Watch the link for a two-minute introduction to your faculty as Jennifer describes and demonstrates one of the things you will get to do during this course. Please join us for a beautiful journey through words and the natural world toward a greater expression of compassion! Learn more. Register.

Webinar Call: Speaking Publicly. Speaker: Karin Erika Knipphals, July 19, 8 am. PT. Register.

Karin Erika Knipphals was born in Germany and is a US Permanent Resident. She lived in the US in 1982 - 83 as an AFS exchange student, continued to travel between the two countries, then migrated to California in 2013. Karin received training as a professional coach, professional singer and has a degree in professional translation (English/Spanish). She studied at Fachhochschule in Cologne, Germany and UCLA, USA. While studying, she also worked as a journalist for radio and television (news/feature). Since 1998, she has been a presentation skills and communication skills trainer and keynote speaker.

A Final Word

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What do writing and nature have to do with compassion?

How can “practices” foster compassion?

To understand some answers to these questions, join facilitator Jennifer Wilhoit for the Compassion Education Institute course, Growing Words of Compassion: Nature and Writing Practices to Love.

The course starts mid-July 2017. In this hands-on experience, you will have a chance to spend four weeks doing activities that foster compassion—for yourself, and for others.

Learn more about the course. Registration is now open.

The Charter for Compassion Webinar and Conference Calls

July 5- Writing and Blogging - Your Voice: From the Written Page to the World, 8 a.m. PT (REGISTER HERE!) Speaker: Natalie Wynne Pace

Natalie is the co-creator of the Earth Gratitude project and the author of the Amazon bestsellers The Gratitude Game, The ABCs of Money and Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is (aka You Vs. Wall Street). She has been ranked as a No. 1 stock picker, above over 835 A-list pundits, by an independent tracking agency (TipsTraders). The ABCs of Money remained at or near the #1 Investing Basics e-book on Amazon for over 3 year (in its vertical). As a strong believer in giving back, she has been instrumental in raising millions for public schools, financial literacy, the arts and underserved women and girls worldwide. Her sustainability tips have helped companies, organizations and individuals to save tens of thousands every year in their annual budget with smarter energy, budgeting and investing choices. is through and

July 7 - Braveheart Woman, 8 a.m. PT (Register Here!) Speaker: Brenda Gustin

Brenda Gustin will share how to transform limiting beliefs into the power of higher awareness so we can fully step into our lives and our communities.

July 19- Speaking Publicly, 8 a.m. PT (REGISTER HERE!) Speaker: Karin Erika Knipphals

The Charter for Compassion

We appreciate the faith so many of you have put in our hands through your donations and monthly contributions. We want to tell you about a new proposal we have written to establish a Compassion Education Corps that would jump into action in times of emergency. It has been submitted to Open IDEO and it is now in the first stage of review. Please take a look at our concept, and if you like what you see we would appreciate if you would applaud the idea, and we would appreciate your comments. To do this you will have to register when you get this page: https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/education-emergencies/ideas/compassion-education-corps/comments#!comments-section. Your ideas will really be appreciated.

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