Focus for December 2024:
IDG Skill: EMPATHY AND COMPASSION - How can a (self)-compassionate attitude support the practice of all IDG skills?
The Inner Development Goals (IDG) Global Empathy & Compassion Hub/Network meets every month to practice (self-)compassion and one of the currently 23 IDG skills. As a team that practices collaboration, Galia Tyano Ronen (Israel), Lotta Adelstal (Sweden), Susan Gitau (Kenya), Mirjam Luthe (Germany) and in the East Asia friendly time zone Ha Tran (Vietnam) started this hub in 1/2023. in 2025, Galia and Mirjam will invite on a monthly basis friends and colleagues to hold a space for practice and transformative learning to explore (self-)compassion and the inner qualities of the IDG framework.
Please feel warmly welcomed, whatever your experience is. Simply join the Zoom link 5 minutes before the event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85300270420
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About the "IDG Global Empathy & Compassion Hub":
This practice space each month evolves around the IDG skill and attitude of “Empathy & Compassion”, namely the "Ability to relate to others, oneself and nature with kindness, empathy and compassion and address related suffering.” It is nested in Dimension 3 - Relating - in the IDG Framework: “Caring for others and the world”: https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/framework
We meet monthly in a 75-minute session in an interactive practice format. And we would like to invite you as a potential co-facilitator, as we move ahead. Each session will focus on one IDG skill; we will practice self-compassion both with a guided practice and deep/compassionate listening, as we explore the relevance of that particular skill. We will harvest the fruit that come from each session. And we will leave with personal “heartwork”, an idea and commitment to bring our own personalised way of developing (self-)compassion into our own lives in-between the monthly meetings.
UPCOMING SESSION :
Session #22 = EMPATHY AND COMPASSION
Thursday, December 12th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
NEXT SESSIONS 2025:
We will switch to Tuesdays in 2025 - please mark your calendars:
28.1. 29.7.
25.2.
25.3. 30.9.
29.4. 28.10.
27.5. 18.11.
24.6. 16.12.
Session #23 = APPRECIATION
Tuesday, January 28th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
... more to come soon...
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PAST SESSIONS:
Session #21 = HUMILITY
Thursday, November 21th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
Session #20 = SELF-AWARENESS
Thursday, September 12th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
Session #19 = COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Thursday, September 12th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
Session #17 = PRESENCE
Thursday, July 4th (!) from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
Session #16 = PERSERVERANCE
Thursday, June 13th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
Session #15 = OPENNESS AND LEARNING MINDSET
Thursday, May 16th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
"Co-creation skills" - Thursday, April 11th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
Session #13 = "Integrity and Authenticity"
Thursday, March 14th (from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
Session #12 = "Sense-Making"
Thursday, February 1st (from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
Session #11 = "Inner Compass"
Thursday, January 18th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST)
Session #10 = "Appreciation"
Thursday, November 9th from 7:00-8:15 pm (CEST)
Session #9 = "Optimism"
Thursday, November 9th from 7:00-8:15 pm (CEST)
Session #8 = "Inclusive Mindset and Intercultural Competence"
Thursday, October 19th (!) from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
Session #7 = CONNECTEDNESS
Thursday, September 14th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
Session #6 = PRESENCE
Thursday, August 10th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
Session #5 = HUMILITY
Thursday, July 13th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
Session #4 = APPRECIATION
Thursday, June 8th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
Wednesday, June 21st from 2-3:15 pm (CEST) / 7-8:15 pm (Vietnam)
Background: The idea of this IDG hub was born in the process of preparing for the IDG Gathering in February 2023, in which Chris Germer, co-creator with Kristin Neff of the Mindful Self-Compassion Programme (MSC) and co-founder of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion (CMSC), and MSC teachers around the world offered a session to the Global IDG community. We had the opportunity to learn how self-compassion is a resource that supports life’s inevitable difficulties and sufferings in communities and societies e.g. in Vietnam, Israel and Kenya.
The above IDG Gathering in 2/2023 created much warmth and curiosity, and sparked energy to continue explore how (self)-compassion might support us as we grow and use the other skills and qualities named in the IDG Framework.
If you want to learn more about Mindful Self-Compassion, look at the recording from the Gathering (Chris Germer introduces MSC and how it relates to the IDGs in the first part) and the resources above.
We look forward to co-create with you!
Mirjam, Galia, Lotta
For seeing the IDG Community events: https://innerdevelopmentgoals.org/get-involved/hubs-networks/