Compassion in education
One key approach to promoting compassionate values in the world is to develop and apply tools for nurturing compassion in children. The following is a list of existing resources that may be useful:
- Ashoka and their Start Empathy program and toolkit
- Mary Gordon’s “Roots of Empathy” program that brings babies to the classroom
- Ken Robinson - Educating the Heart and Mind
- Maurice Coles's CoED foundation and his book Towards the Compassionate School: From Golden Rule to Golden Thread
- Paul Gilbert’s The Compassionate Mind and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
- Teaching Compassion: Humane Education in Early Childhood edited by Mary Renck Jalongo
- The Charter for Compassion’s Education Sector
- Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) and Compassion Training
- Centre for Nonviolent Communication
- The Bully Project, including tools for educators
- Pam Cayton’s Compassion in Education: An Introduction to Creating Compassionate Cultures
- Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
- Center for Educational Improvement’s Heart Centered Education
- Mindfulness in Schools Project: Uses the “.b” protocol for adapting standard mindfulness training techniques to the classroom
- Kristin Neff’s website on self-compassion, including exercises, resources and research papers
Videos
Articles
- “Nothing is more important than teaching compassion” (Vinciane Rycroft in The Guardian)