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Compassion Is Like a Muscle That Gets Stronger with Training

By Christopher Bergland — 2018

Loving-kindness meditation and compassion training boost empathic resilience.

Read on www.psychologytoday.com

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Encountering Grief: A 10-Minute Guided Meditation with Roshi Joan Halifax

Roshi Joan Halifax is a Zen abbot and medical anthropologist. In this guided meditation, she shares nourishing wisdom as we face suffering in the world, helping us to find the inner resources to carry our own grief and sadness and that of others.

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Joan Halifax
2020
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Standing at the Edge | Joan Halifax | Talks at Google

A talk based on Joan’s book “Standing at the Edge”. The book weaves together scientific research she will share with us and her own powerful personal experiences as a social activist and humanitarian to show how we can transform our biggest challenges with compassion and wisdom.

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Joan Halifax
2019
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Joan Halifax: Compassion and the True Meaning of Empathy

Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row). She shares what she's learned about compassion in the face of death and dying, and a deep insight into the nature of empathy.

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Joan Halifax
2011
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Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet

Joan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, an anthropologist, and a Buddhist teacher.

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Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit (foreword)
2019
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