Compassion Training for Dark Times
“Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination…from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and works, will kindle under almost all circumstances.” Hannah Arendt The

All You Need is Love
Kelly Conroy Moore, Ph.D. and Brooke D. Lavelle, Ph.D. talk love and transformation on the Integrated Health Podcast. Enjoy!

Leveraging the Contemplative Community for Liberation
How do we leverage the contemplative community into justice and liberation for all, not just the pursuit of liberation for ourselves individually? In this conversation, we explore issues around uncomfortable topics – race, systems of white dominance and our collective
A Call for More Compassionate, Equitable Education
What’s Equity Got to Do With It? Recently I presented at a workshop for educators interested in the science of social and emotional learning (SEL) and prosocial education. After leading a half-day session on cultivating compassion, in which I also

The Power of Moral Imagination
In 2010, professors Sara Hendren and Brian Glenny began covering the standard “handicapped” symbol on Boston parking signs with translucent stickers that depicted a new image. Over the familiar stick figure sitting upright in a wheelchair, they pasted one leaning

Is There a Place for “Inner Work” in the Education Community?
“Teaching is personal. You have to put yourself out there. You have to confront who you are on a daily basis.” These are words that I have used when mentoring student teachers. But, just like telling children to “pay attention” and then
Sustainable Compassion for Those Who Serve
Forty- to fifty-percent of teachers quit their job within their first five years of teaching. Nurses, doctors and other medical professionals report increasingly less satisfaction in their work. Incidence of suicide among social workers is on the rise. Clergy suffer
Fierce Care, Not Self-Righteous Anger, for Social Change
Many of us who serve others in caring professions or roles also work to change institutional or social structures that we see as harming the people we serve, or holding them back. To work to change such structures is often

