Greetings and welcome to Cultivating Compassion 2023!

What’s happening here? Maybe the shortest answer is this: we’re working to cultivate a more compassionate world.

This project is a collaboration between NT-NL Public Witness Team., The Charter for Compassion., United States Christian Leadership Organization (USCLO), and Kairos Collaborative. Each of these organizations is committed to creating a world where compassion and empathy provide a bridge to connect our humanity. 

As we’ve surveyed the landscape of our communal life in the US, we see hope and fear, connection and isolation. How can we transcend the things that divide us and move forward together? We need skills!

Cultivating Compassion 2023 is designed to help us learn and practice the skills of connection. Drawing from psychology, sociology, philosophy, and history, we’ll adopt a quarterly rhythm of topical book discussions followed by practice sessions where we take on a controversial issue to practice our developing skills. The book discussions will take place on the 4th Thursday of each month via zoom. For participants who wish, an in-person practice session will be available on a Saturday morning, with Thursday night zoom option available as well.