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Them by Felipe Zurita

Hello Charter Family! 

For those who don't know much about me, my name is Felipe, I'm the marketing director at the Charter. I'm a Millennial, queer, and really happy to identify as one. During this pride month, I've been thinking about what to share with all of you, our readers, to bring more awareness of issues that pertain to the LGBTQ+ community and see how compassion can move us to take action to bring equality and safety to the marginalized community I love to which I belong. Read more.

Today on Juneteenth, the day we celebrate the end of slavery, the day we memorialize those who offered us hope for the future and the day when we renew our commitment to the struggle for freedom.
— Angela Davis

Read our blog entry from Barbara Kauffman, Charter for Compasison's Arts Sector Lead: Juneteenth: Other or Brother? ~ Deconstructing the myth of America in commemoration of this holiday in the U.S.

Charter Education Institute (CEI) Courses

Introduction to Compassionate Listening: Bringing the Light of Compassion to a Conflicted World. Course begins June 27, 2022.
Learn more and register here.

Now, more than ever, our world desperately needs compassion. And we especially need it in our families and communities.  You are invited to join us for a highly interactive, experiential and inspiring introductory workshop on Compassionate Listening.

Global Read

How can we help our kids make good decisions to resolve the issues they face?

You Can Choose Your Own Life: Stories for Decision Making introduces students to a model for sound, emotionally intelligent decision-making. Five realistic scenarios engage young readers in making decisions and immediately learning the consequences of whatever choices they have made.

Put yourself on the map and start co-creating with Like-Hearted, Like-Minded people around you!
Learn More Here!

Charter for Compassion News, Programs, and Webinars 

Dear Charter family! We are looking for people looking to provide their skills and time to volunteer for the Arts AND Environment Sectors of the Charter for Compassion. We have a couple of projects that need special attention and would love to have you be part of our wonderful Team of Volunteers. Click here to fill out our volunteer application form.

Community Chat:
June 30 at 7am & 3pm PDT / 3pm & 11pm CET / 7.30pm & 3.30am IST Check other timezones here

The Charter for Compassion team is working to find ways to address the many concerns we have as a global community. We need to hear from you as to what is happening in your communities. We also have some new tools to share with you. We are thrilled to invite you, to a conversation, being held at two different times to accommodate our global community: 

Register for 7 am PDT zoom meeting here

Register for 3 pm PDT zoom meeting here

The Awakened Schools Institute is a spiritually activating year-long course that combines groundbreaking scientific research and inclusive educational frameworks into useful tools for educators. Frameworks include culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogy, healing-centered learning, literacies across content areas, social emotional learning, social justice education, and trauma-informed teaching.

The Charter for Compassion (CfC) is expanding its approach to fundraising in a collaborative effort which supports and showcases artists' work globally. Read more here. 

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.
  

Islands of Calm Meditation for City, Town, Village with Integral City Meshworks
June 25, 7.30 am PDT / 3.30 pm BST 
Learn more and Register here. 

Integral City Meshworks offers a Zoom Islands of Calm Meditation for Compassionate Cities once a month on the 4th Saturday.

After the meditation participants can (optionally) share their experience of the meditation. This is always delightful and valuable as we get a sense of the energies we are collectively noticing and sharing in the Field of our villages and cities.

Altogether the meditation lasts for an hour embracing the check-in, meditation and checkout.

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