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The Festival of Compassion is a university-based event which will consolidate and present some of the key current thinking related to compassion, and offers practical suggestions about how to actively implement compassion for wellbeing both in university and in life beyond it.
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Following a truly unprecedented year, now more than ever the value of compassion to our lives, institutions, and communities has been amply demonstrated.
The Exeter festival of Compassion is bringing together academics, practitioners, campaigners, and activists, working in a number of fields, for a festival on compassion in its broadest sense, to coincide with the celebration of this year’s ‘World Compassion Day’.
Practically, the Festival of Compassion will host a mix of online/hybrid and face-to-face activities (e.g. roundtable discussion), workshops (e.g. mindful meditation) and invited speakers – subjects and talks may include:
- General wellbeing
- Aging, disease and death
- Student & staff wellbeing
- Compassionate campus
- Refugees & Violence
- Compassionate Cities
- Playful acts of kindness
- Playful compassion
The Exeter Festival of Compassion is a great way to support University of Exeter staff and students as well as the local community, and to engage with the University of Exeter, an institution of global standing and a major South West employer.
To get involved or find out more, contact the Festival of Compassion team at festivalofcompassion@exeter.ac.uk.
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