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From: "Charter for Compassion" <contact@charterforcompassion.org>
Date: November 26, 2013, 2:06:18 AM EST
To: Miguel Miguel <fireryphoenix@hotmail.com>
Subject: Charter for Compassion News: November 2013
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NOVEMBER 2013 Newsletter


"We urgently need to make compassion a clear, luminous and dynamic force in our polarized world... indispensable to the creation of a just economy and a peaceful global community." 

                                                         ~ The Charter for Compassion

Dear Miguel, We've got a full schedule and a rapidly accelerating global compassion movement. Thanks for joining us on this historic journey!

Meeting of the Minds: On Compassion 

Tuesday, November 26, 8 pm at the 92nd St. Y, Lexington at 92nd, New York City.  Join two of the world's preeminent interfaith scholars and historians in a lively and provocative conversation about compassion and its crucial place in both modern and ancient times.

How do we lead compassionate lives? Why should we care? What has happened historically when we allow compassion's opposite, the ego, to take over? Karen Armstrong and Thomas Cahill will explore these essential questions. Moderated by Rabbi Jennifer Krause.Visit the 92Y site to post questions for the panel and watch and participate in the event as a free live webcast: http://92yondemand.org/livecast/.

Oprah's Super Soul Sunday: Oprah & Karen Armstrong

Twelve Steps to Compassion Compassion" airs Sunday, December 1 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network

Oprah sits down with bestselling author and TED prize winner Karen Armstrong who shares her groundbreaking insights into the world's great religions.  After conducting decades of research, Karen reveals the thread that she says is common to all the world's great religions:  compassion.  In our perilously divided world, she says we need to live more compassionately now more than ever.  In her book:  Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, Karen outlines simple practices anyone can do in hopes of making a lifelong commitment to creating a more harmonious world. Whether you're waiting in line at the supermarket or sitting  at your desk at the office, we all can put ourselves in another person's shoes and offer them our understanding and respect.  Check the Super Soul website for exact time in your location.  The show will be repeated on December 8 and archived after that.  Twitter questions and comments: #SuperSoulSunday.

Start a Campaign or Partner Initiative

At the heart of the Charter of Compassion International movement are our city campaigns.  The Charter has inspired people in communities and institutions around the globe! What does compassion ask of you, of your neighborhood, your city, town, or village, your school, business, or hospital, your church, mosque, synagogue, or temple?  Join the movement!  Bring compassion to your community.  Learn more about the City Campaigns on our website and sign up your community now! We currently have over 180 city initiatives in 32 countries.  Begin a dialogue, start an action plan.  If your city already has a plan broaden it to invite your city's Sister City to begin their own campaign.

Check out a new feature on our home page: a link to our partners by each sector. 

Business Partners
Education Partners
Health Care Partners
Peace & Non-violence Partners
Religion & Spirituality Partners

Do you belong to a business that is compassionate or would like to be?  Are you a teacher, administrator or parent who would like for your school to think and act more compassionately?  Are you a part of a college or university that would welcome or needs to begin a dialogue on how to become a compassionate college or university?  What about thinking about having your church, mosque or synagogue or your interfaith group starting a compassionate initiative?  How about having your peace initiative join our network?  Become a partner to the Charter for Compassion International network and meet other like minded people and organizations.  We have separate newsletters, partner calls and a private Facebook page to encourage collaboration.  Help us grow our network.  Visit the links above to see our current partners.  Click here to join the partner network.

Help Us Start a New Charter for Compassion Sector: The Environment

Many of our existing partners and community campaigns are building into their compassion actions plans ways that will help them to build a green and peaceful future by exploring ideas of sustainability and the recognition of preserving and honoring the earth as our ancestors and first peoples did in the past.  Help us as we begin this endeavor.  Recommend, introduce and become a partner to this new sector.  Just as we have created a Compassionate Reader for each of our other sectors, we will be doing the same for the Environment sector.  Make recommendations, introduce us to authors and significant works that we should be thinking about as we prepare an annotated bibliography.  Let us know your thoughts. 

 

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