Breathe

Director's Note by Marilyn Turkovich

​Gun Violence in the U.S. has become so prevalent that the FBI maintains an Active Shooter Resource website. The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX on May 25th came just 10 days after a shooting at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, NY. There have been 27 shootings with injuries and deaths in schools alone in 2022. Read more

Charter Education Institute (CEI) Courses

Our Sense-able Nature: Mindfully Reconnecting with the Natural World. Course begins June 6, 2022.
Learn more and register here.

We will tap into a few themes we find in nature along with becoming reacquainted with some of our 54 Natural Senses/Sensitivities. You will be guided through the process of getting back in touch with the child-like wonder that’s available to each of us as you interact with the rest of nature. Through this connection, we can experience the wonder of the world in which we live (and are a part of).

Global Read

How do you inquire about, act in and impact the city as self, other and place? 

Learn through a series of methodological cases studies and templates for process designs, based on Integral City work in the last decade. If you want to achieve impact in your work as Integral City Practitioner, Catalyst or Meshworker, these designs generate outcomes in the city, using an integrally framed approach

Charter for Compassion News, Programs, and Webinars 

Children who do not feel safe, cannot learn. And teachers who lack training and resources, do not perform to their full potential.

Respect Education Foundation has developed a program to improve teaching and create a safe and rewarding learning environment.

Learning objectives for this presentation include defining relational health and describe how it helps to elucidate the solution to toxic stress.

Dr. Andrew Garner is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western University of Ohio, and co-authored the Academy of Pediatrics two policy statements on childhood toxic stress and the book Thinking Developmentally.

Please join us for our continued exploration on values of Partnership, concepts of Safety, and rebuilding Sacredness in our conversation with Leslee Udwin, director of India’s Daughter and founder of Think Equal, a program of education-based emotional and social partnership, developed out of the horrors of domination.

From Charter for Compassion Partners

Conversation Collective Every Monday, 3 pm PDT and Thursday, 9 am PDT. 
Learn more and Register here.

The Conversation Collective is an online space to meet new people from around the world. Currently, people from Canada, France, South Africa, UK and USA are part of these weekly gatherings where civil conversations create new connections (in English). On Mondays and Thursdays. Consider joining the Conversation Collective to feel part of a global community and make new connections. The Charter partners with Citizen Discourse.

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The Community of Mindful Parenting aspires to empower families to become more mindful and compassionate. They are a multigenerational, multicultural and fully inclusive community that strives to nurture powerful relationships between parents/caregivers and their children. Their Listening Mothers™ and Finding Calm classes explore the relationship between caregiver and child through a lens of self compassion. Their weekly Communi-Teas are a centering tool for meditation. Learn more here.
  

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