The purpose of this interactive workshop is to introduce a contemporary contemplative pathway designed as an initial step to organizational change and development. In an effort to begin to re-found spirituality as a source of health and healing intrapersonally, interpersonally, and organizationally, a documentary film was created as a catalyst to courageous conversations about compassion. In this workshop, we will screen a portion of This Film Is About Compassion, and engage in its accompanying process, which asks us to reflect on: (1) What is compassion? What isn’t?; (2) How do we know compassion is present/ absent?; and (3) What can be done at individual/organizational levels to nurture and strengthen this human capacity and need? This workshop is designed to support and inspire all those who wish to begin creating conditions for further compassion and wisdom in medicine, health care, and the larger society.
