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During my last silent retreat, after a few days, an old memory suddenly came to mind: I remembered a situation in which I had not behaved particularly elegantly or wisely. The memory stuck with me and resurfaced regularly over the next few days, accompanied by various...
In this article Mindfulness Network Community volunteer, Kate Ensor invites us to join her journey on the mindfulness-based compassionate living pathway – what it means to begin, to stay with it and to grow through the process. By sharing her own lived experience,...
This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another - that's what, in fact, makes life worth living.– Clint Smith, author and scholar Some time ago, I read “The Lonely Century” by economist Noreena Hertz. In her book she describes the...
We are delighted to announce a new online peer-supervision / intervision group, in collaboration with SiTT for all who have attended a Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living Teacher Training. SiTT - Support for Integrity in Teaching and Training - is a peer-led...
Interest in the effects and mechanisms of MBCL in people with (recurrent) depression seems to have increased significantly internationally. It seems that MBCL, as a continuation of MBCT, can have a clear added value for people with (recurrent) depression. This is...
As human beings, we all sometimes find it difficult to understand and accept things that have gone wrong – either by ourselves or by others. We may then dwell in blaming, resentment or bitterness, and we usually do not become happier as a result. The meaning and value...
"May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within." - John O´Donohue This line from John O’Donohue’s poem "For Belonging’"can perhaps be an inspiration for us all, for the year ahead. The poem was read at the end of the online Teacher Training in...
In the world we live in today, kindness and compassion are qualities that are easily overwhelmed by the harshness we can meet in ourselves and in the world around us. However as science has confirmed, kindness and compassion are very important contributors to...
"Contemporary scientific knowledge solidly affirmsthat kindness and compassion are to the brainwhat the breath is to life." In the end of the 70s, like all young men in the Netherlands, I had to join military service for some time. I had just started to meditate and...
I had been living in South-East Asia as a Buddhist monk for about 6 years. When I came back to Europe in 1988 I fell into a strong culture shock and identity crisis. I remember one of the things that really supported me was reading a book by Guy Corneau: ‘Absent...