COMPASSION WEEK 2020
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COMPASSION WEEK 2020
WE ARE HAPPY AND GRATEFUL TO HAVE SHARED COMPASSION WEEK WITH MANY OF YOU:
I. To the 24 partner leaders and friends: Your daily readings of the Charter for Compassion on Zoom touched us deeply. Your diversity and shared reflections were beautiful witness in today’s world to our common humanity and universal values. To our readers and followers: Please visit the websites of these inspirational Houston organizations-those you do not already know and those you may be familiar with.
II. To our dear friends, James Doty, M.D., Founder of Stanford University’s CCARE, and Sean Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., Executive Director of Jung Center of Houston: Your video and live discussions of The Revolutionary Power of Empathy and Compassion, the keynote of Compassion Week, highlighted in personal terms what is needed to transform ourselves and our world.
III. To our own totally- volunteer board of directors: Your hours of work to produce the week’s Daily Doses of Compassion and disseminate those through daily news blasts, daily website highlights and daily Facebook posts were an ambitious, impressive achievement. Your creative production of the Doty and Fitzpatrick video and live discussion was heroic. Your organization, coordination and hosting of the daily Zoom Charter readings by 24 diverse partner leaders was a long term dream, finally realized.
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IV. To our partner, Eternal Gandhi Museum Houston: Your Virtual Walk for Peace and 1000 Points of Light events added cultural richness and the significance of the global imperative for peace to Compassion Week. Thank you for the opportunity to collaborate to the benefit of all Houstonians.
V. To our friend and artist, Judith Shamp: We are grateful for your donation of your original art image to our commemoration of Compassion Week 2020. (Judith’s image and others from WiVlA members were recently published in an exhibition catalogue titled COMPASSION in collaboration with the Holocaust Museum. The paired COMPASSION exhibition in its beautiful entirety is available on the museum’s website through January 2021).
We would love your feedback. Drop us a note here.
Did you receive Daily Doses of Compassion? If yes…from Website? from News blasts? From Facebook? What did you like best? What can we improve next time?
Did you attend the Daily Charter Readings with our Partner Leadership? What did you like best? What can we improve?
Did you watch the Doty/Fitzpatrick video? Did you watch their Live Q and A Discussion? What did you like best? What can we improve?
And finally, we like to share James Doty, MD and Sean Fitzpatrick’s conversation on the power and impact of empathy and compassion.
Compassionate Houston was inspired by the Charter for Compassion. Its principles of treating others with respect; encouraging appreciation of cultural and religious diversity; and cultivating an informed empathy with the suffering of all human beings were our aspirational foundation.
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“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”