Creating Compassionate Communities and Playing the Compassion Games

Broadcast on July 14, 2016
With Lesa R. Walker, MD, MPH & Marie Roker-Jones & Jon Ramer

In response to the challenges we face, communities can organize around compassion as the power source of social innovation. In this session, we’ll hear how the Charter for Compassion, has significantly contributed to the growing compassion movement in cities, states, and countries worldwide. Specifically, we’ll share compassion case studies from U.S. cities: Seattle, Austin & New York. We’ll share how the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest can get people off the sidelines and onto the field, getting out of their comfort zone and into compassionate action. You’ll learn about 3D compassion which includes caring for others, self and the earth. And, you’ll hear how mindfulness plays a major role in creating safe spaces within communities, which yields more compassionate responses even in difficult conversations.

Lesa R. Walker, MD, MPH

Founder, Compassionate Austin Movement; Leadership Team, Compassion Games Intl; MD, MPH
Lesa R. Walker, MD, MPH Lesa Walker lives in Austin, Texas. She has 30+ years of experience as a public health physician, ensuring quality of care for children with disabilities. She contends that compassion is the greatest force for social good and the more we practice and strengthen our compassion skills, the more likely we are to unite, engage, and address our personal and community needs. She currently works at both local and international levels to engage people in the active practice of “3D” compassion (caring for others, self, and the Earth). She is an Education Program Associate of the Charter for Compassion International; a member of the Leadership Team of the Compassion Games International; and Founder of the Compassionate Austin Movement. In May, 2016, as representative of Compassionate Austin, she was awarded the 2016 Random Kindness Community Resilience Leadership Award for innovative leadership in developing projects that are an expression of compassion made visible. She has created the Compassion Relays (part of the Compassion Games) and also the free “Compassion Today!” mobile app. For more bio details: http://www.charterforcompassion.org/index.php/lesa-walker.

Marie Roker-Jones

Co-Founder, #CompassionConvos
Marie Roker-Jones is Founder of Raising Great Men-Life skills for boys to mind up, not man up and co-founder of #CompassionConvo-challenging bias through compassionate action. Marie has over 15 years of experience in program development, community building, coaching and career development. Marie is a NAMA certified Anger Management Specialist, a certified Intrinsic coach and Youth Mental Health First Aider, working with kids and teens to be "smart with their hearts".

Jon Ramer

Founder of Compassion Games International, Director of Four Worlds International Institute, and Associate of the International Institute for Child Rights Development
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