Twelve Steps to A More Compassionate Life Reading Group
with Jennifer O'Sullivan
March 2011 - February 2012
3:30 - 5:00 pm

"We have a natural capacity for compassion as well as for cruelty. We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion, or work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is ours." -- Karen Armstrong, from the Preface to Twelve Steps to a More Compassionate Life

Pure Prana Yoga studio is hosting a special reading group to study Karen Armstrong’s "Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life." Exploring one chapter at a time, the group will meet monthly on a Sunday 3:30-5:00pm.

As part of an international effort to activate the Golden Rule globally, we will join reading groups around the world to foster a greater understanding of compassion, and to promote the cultivation and practice of compassion in individual and community life.

TED prize-winner Karen Armstrong believes that while compassion is intrinsic in all human beings, each of us needs to work diligently to cultivate and expand our capacity for compassion. In Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, Armstrong offers concrete ways of putting compassion into action in our everyday lives.

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life Reading Groups are affiliated with the Charter for Compassion. The Charter for Compassion is a TED Prize project in collaboration with the Fetzer Institute.

Schedule
March 20, 2011
April 17, 2011
May 29, 2011*
June 19, 2011*
July 17, 2011
August 21, 2011
September 25, 2011
October 30, 2011
November 27, 2011
December 11, 2011
January 22, 2011
February 26, 2011

To promote group cohesion and sharing, this is not a drop-in program. All participants must at least attend the first session in order to join.

* Due to space constraints, the only open dates these months happen to fall on holidays. During the first session, the group will decide whether to reschedule these sessions.