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Develop Self-Compassion to Be a Skillful, Effective, and Persistent Activist

Develop Self-Compassion to Be a Skillful, Effective, and Persistent Activist

As we work to create the beloved community and address systemic injustices, we will encounter the suffering of others, as well as our own suffering. Compassion allows us to meet suffering with an open and connected heart and a balanced mind. Self-compassion allows us to offer to ourselves the empathy, understanding, and kindness we desperately need. The more we respond to suffering with compassion, the more skillful, effective, and sustainable our activism becomes. Learn how in this talk and article.

Transform Delusional Thinking with Mental Jiu-Jitsu

Transform Delusional Thinking with Mental Jiu-Jitsu

Mental Jiu-Jitsu is an easy-to-learn process that encourages contemplation and inquiry. It’s basic structure provides a systemic method that helps us dissect our delusional stories, see them from various perspectives, and respond to them from a wise and rational view. In this way, Mental Jiu-Jitsu helps us investigate, challenge, and expose delusional thinking, and respond to it in a kind and honest manner.

Delusion Profusion: The Many Ways that Aversion and Craving Arise

Delusion Profusion: The Many Ways that Aversion and Craving Arise

Learn the various ways that the delusion of aversion and craving arise, and some agape arsenal techniques for how to let them go.

Kindness: The Love That Befriends

Kindness: The Love That Befriends

Learn how to cultivate, grow, and embody kindness. Learn what kindness is, how it feels in the body, and how it is expressed in our thoughts. Learn how cultivating kindness transforms hatred and fear into love. Greed and worry try to masquerade as kindness, but we show you how to tell them apart. Learn all this and more!