Compassion Research

Message 5 of 340

I have been away from actively writing in this group, but not distant. The reason is that I have been engaged is my continued research on compassion. This year the research has been along three avenues. First there is the survey on compassion that is free and confidential on the website www.CompassionSpace.com. In the future, after we get more responses, I will do a compilation and discussion of the results. Second, I taught my first college class that was totally dedicated to the topic of compassion. The subject of how to teach compassion is of great interest to me and I hope to write a short paper on this soon. Finally, and the project that has consumed much of my time, there is the virtual world compassion training simulation. Building a virtual world from scratch is no easy task and I am doing almost all the art, the history research and the conceptual design. You can see some of the art on the compassion website.

And, if all of that wasn't enough to keep me busy, I volunteered to do a second website realted to my boyhood hobby. It is called HerkimerHistory.com

Please feel free to post your thoughts and ideas about compassion, or PM me, it will all be passed on to help, and teach, others.

posted by DocDavid

I am glad to hear of all the work you are doing. I do not get on the computer much anymore due to life's circumstances right now, but when I do I always go to your site to see what new work you are doing. I have some interesting questions that if I had online access for a longer time I could write you. Perhaps there will yet be a way for this to happen, but in the meantime, thanks for all you are doing to increase the awareness and practice of compassion.

Kathy