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Latest News and Updates:

Boundless Compassion Training Workshop

Erin Matteson of Modesto CA is the first BCF to lead a workshop for training facilitators of the BC program. Erin worked tirelessly to prepare for the workshop and her efforts show in the evaluations. They confirm the excellent quality of her leadership and her understanding of the aspects of Boundless Compassion. I also am pleased that Erin added some of her creativity to the workshop, including an anointing for the closing ritual. At some future date, I’ll have Erin create a file for this ritual so it can be included on the BCF section of the website.

Compassion Workshop with a Business Organization

Another first for our BC program:  Kevin Pokorny of Des Moines, IA wrote to tell me that he “facilitated a 3-hour workshop for Bankers Trust for their emerging leaders on compassion and self-compassion -17 people of various ages and cultural backgrounds participated. They were a very engaged group…”

Kevin used a variety of sources for this workshop, including content from the BC program, along with a book those of you with a connection to business organizations might find insightful and useful. Here is Kevin’s brief description of this resource:

Awakening Compassion at Work – The Quiet Power That Elevates People and Organizations by Monica C. Worline and Jane E. Dutton, 2017.
“Even if we know that people suffer, should businesses or work organizations care?”  This quote, from Awakening Compassion at Work, presents a provocative question. I finally found a book that succinctly articulates what is compassion at work, how to integrate a compassionate presence in an organization’s culture, and how leaders can be a compassionate presence. The authors weave in stories of leaders and organizations that are awakening compassion at work, and the impact it has on the work culture, the people employed and the sustainability of organizations. The book ends with a personal blueprint for compassion at work and your organization’s blueprint from compassionate competence.  This resource has “awakened” my eyes, mind and heart in bridging the “spiritual” language of compassion into an organizational environment.

Four Day BC Retreats

More firsts: Besides the two four day retreats Mary Jo Wulf and Jeanine Kosman have already led at a small retreat place in central Iowa, they are now scheduled to lead this retreat at Siena Center in Racine, WI in October. This is a center where I have given the retreat a number of times. Now they are ready to take over. I’m excited and most grateful to have this happen.

Be sure to send information on BC programs/projects you are leading or organizing so I can include them in future newsletters.

Joyce

Compassion provides safe shelter
to hold one another in hard times.

(Catherine Nerney,  The Compassion Connection)

Programs Related to Boundless Compassion

October 6-8
Boundless Compassion Weekend Retreat
Scottsdale, Az
Ruth Baker / Colleen Shephard

September 6–8
Boundless Compassion Weekend Retreat
Franciscan Renewal Center
Scottsdale, Az
Ruth Baker / Colleen Shephard
Registration

October 25–27
Creighton Retreat Center
Griswold, IA
Fri. 5:00 p.m. – Sun. noon
“The Transforming Power of Self-Compassion/A Spiritual Retreat”
Jeanne Johnson, Anne Kubr, Patty Forsberg, Maureen Bausch
Joyce Rupp will give a presentation on Saturday morning.
Information and registration