Compassion when?
When do we need to first consider compassion for those approaching death? Do we stop too soon?
:- Doug.
Archive for October 28th, 2013
Where compassion?
Where are our community’s nutrient places where compassion can first take root? Where in yourself are your senses of injustice, ethics, conscience and rage? Where in yourself can you find the strength and resolve to stand up for, to speak out for, those approaching death?
:- Doug.
Compassion acts
What are the compassionate practices already at work in this place? What is this place? What can it be? Can compassionate community mean something concrete to this place? What specific skills and attitudes lead to compassionate caring for those approaching death? What might we accomplish together that we wouldn’t separately? What can you do your next work day to bring more compassion to the dying? What might you personally do to bring this to the attention of your institution and associations? With whom can you team?
:- Doug.
Compassion how?
How might we show compassion for each of the persons we have identified? What might compassion look like, beyond what we are already doing? What are the barriers and things which slow our compassion, and how might we get beyond them? How might we make a system for compassion for those approaching death?
:- Doug.
For whom compassion?
For whom do we need to have compassion? The dying, their families, their nurses and doctors? Someone else? Who are our community’s exemplars of compassion? Who are the faces of compassion in our community? Whom should we invite to this conversation? Who would be likely sponsors and key persons? Who in this small group could invite them?
:- Doug.
