Registration for the free course is open at CompassionShift.Emory.edu.
The challenge is designed to help people recognize their capacity for compassion and learn how to practice it each day. Over the course of three weeks, participants will progress through a series of topics that explore the transformative power of compassion. Each topic includes daily guided meditations, simple everyday actions, and reflective journaling that are completed virtually at a time convenient to the participant.
“Cultivating compassion toward self and others is the urgent need of our time,” said Lobsang Tenzin Negi, executive director of Emory University’s Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics. “Compassion is a basic capacity of the human heart that helps us live in harmony with ourselves, with others and with our planet. It is our hope that people around the world will accept the challenge to devote some time during the 21 days exploring the ways that compassion can crea