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Practicing Compassion

The major goal of our programming for children is to give children and teens the tools to build healthy relationships with others. Selina Armstrong, our Child and Family Advocate, has an extensive background in peace education, which teaches tolerance, acceptance and peaceful conflict resolution. Participants in the children's program learn new ways to handle stress and anger, such as practicing mindfulness and developing strategies to help them calm down and focus before reacting to a situation. These strategies are implemented based on what works best for each individual child.

 

Recently, we have begun to expand the work of our children's program to include Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT). CBCT trains its practitioners to cultivate compassion through reflection about ourselves, our relationship to others, and the events in our everyday lives, and develop an understanding of our interconnection with others. Reflecting on our interconnectedness is the catalyst for compassion. When we relate to someone with compassion for their difficulties and accomplishments we feel joy in their well-being and feel for their pain and suffering.  Practicing CBCT has been shown to help children better cope with stressors and to prevent and reduce depression.

 

To help us better understand CBCT and its positive effects, our entire staff began an 8-week CBCT training of our own in March with experts from Emory University's Emory-Tibet partnership. We hope this training will help us approach our work with even more compassion for the women and children we serve and help us model compassion to our own families and communities.

 

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