Cultivating Compassionate Coexistence

In the last decade, isolating events have unfolded that threaten community (e.g. politically-motivated anti-democratic dualism, social media echo chambers, and a pandemic). We see a need for developing communities where we engage differences with dignity and respect. We see a need to collaborate with service-oriented, justice-focused people and organizations to cultivate compassionate community through work similar to NPR’s One Small Step: Courageous Conversations Across A Growing Divide. One Small Step explores the idea that intentional conversations between partisans could be a catalyst for national healing. While this is an example of the type of mission congruency, differences with our vision include focusing on local communities and offering more than a podcast (e.g. interviews with key people, web-based resource repository, etc.).  Our efforts are centered on the principles of Non Violent Compassionate Communication (Rosenberg, 2015).