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"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...
On 15th April 2023 this exciting new movement was launched. The Global Compassion Coalition gatheres all those who want to live in a world that’s based on compassion. Together with speakers like Marianne Williamson, Mpho Tutu, Jack Kornfrield, and Ruby Wax, we...
With the call for compassion becoming ever louder in the world, we are pleased that EAMBA European Associations for Mindfulness officially acknowledges Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living (MBCL) as a Mindfulness-Based Programme (MBP), according to internationally...
I love the international MBCL courses, where people meet online in an eco-friendly way. It opens ways of cultivating compassion towards ourselves, each other, and the world at large. Meeting mindfully and heartfully with people from diverse backgrounds, we can reach...
What a wonderful adventure we started some 15 years ago, when Frits Koster and I began to develop Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living (MBCL). On this beautiful path we reached another milestone this year. We feel thrilled that the boards of two leading Mindfulness...
Wonderful how online teaching can bridge the Atlantic in an eco-friendly way and how people from diverse cultures can meet and be inspired by the Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living programme. It was an honor to teach the first half of an MBCL Foundation Course to...