Focus for April 2024:
"Co-creation Skills" - "Skills and motivation to build, develop and facilitate collaborative relationships with diverse stake-holders, characterised by psychological safety and genuine co-creation" is the quality we would like to explore together with you, and how it can be supported with a (self)-compassionate attitude.
The Inner Development Goals (IDG) Empathy & Compassion Hub 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) will hold the space for us all.
Please feel warmly welcomed, whatever your experience is. Simply join the Zoom link 5-10 minutes before the event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85300270420
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About the "IDG 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 SESSIONS:
"Co-creation skills" - Thursday, April 11th from 7-8:15 pm (CEST) / 10-11:15 am (PST)
... more to come soon...
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PAST SESSIONS:
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://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/community