Compassion and Care
A series of silent and guided mindful meditations led by Dr Sarah Temple and her team during the coronavirus pandemic. The direct URL is www.compassionandcare.co.uk . This page will close in 2022.
Weekly sessions are at 8 am on Thursdays - sometimes the moment is recorded to facebook -please request the passcode from Sarah then click here to link to Zoom webinar mindful meditations . From September 2021 the format will usually be an audio contemplation posted to the www.alpiri.co.uk Whats App group.
July 22nd- daily reading from the New York Zen Center for Contemplation
26th May 2020 - introducing the mantra - silent meditation
Silence - Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950), Hindu Sage
There is consciousness along with quietness in the mind: this is exactly the state to be aimed at.
By silence eloquence is meant. It is the best language.
The thought-free experience of the Self is silence.
There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
That state which transcends speech and thought is silence.
That state in which the 'I'-thought does not even arise in the least is silence.
The experience of silence is alone the real and perfect knowledge.
Silence is the most potent form of work.
The silence of Self is ever there.
As long as you run with the running mind you cannot have it.
How can silence be explained in words?
27th May 2020 - sharing alpiri stories from Central Australia - silent meditation
28th May - EHCAP Wellness Wheel guided mindful activity
pdf of Wellness Wheel mindful activity
29th May - EHCAP Silent Meditation
Interested in learning more about Christian Contemplation?
The Perfect Paradox- a poem by Steve Taylor p92 The Calm Center
When you can hear silence behind the noise
and feel space among the crowd
when you can sense peace amidst the chaos and conflict
and see the beauty of the ugly and drab
When solitude never leads to loneliness
and emptiness seems to overflow
When every stranger looks familiar
and every foreign place feels like home
Then you'll know that duality is no more
that you've stepped beyond contradiction
into the place of perfect paradox
where everything makes sense.
30th May - Mindful Walking
Link to gov.uk doc info re return to school
Great Spirit Prayer
An Indigenous American Prayer translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887
Oh, Great Spirit,
Whose voice I hear in the winds
and whose breath gives life to all the world.
Hear me! I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes
ever hold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made
and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand
the things you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden
in every leaf and rock.
Help me remain calm and strong in the
face of all that comes toward me.
Help me find compassion without
empathy overwhelming me.
I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy: myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame.
Wellness Wheel
31st May - 15 minute silent meditation
1st June - Mindful Meditation on Vimeo
Mary and Martha- Laurence Freeman, Journey to the Heart, Christian Contemplation through the Centuries p3 &4
Back to School and Beyond by Lucy Beney
2nd June - Mindful meditation and walk
Reading from www.maceapproach.co.uk summarising Mindful Emotion Coaching and ACE awareness
3rd June - Mindful meditation holding the extended community including health care workers in mind
Guardian article by Palliative Care Doctor - reflections on caring for patients dying with COVID-19
June 4th - Guest Jayne McGergor talks about how she developed her daily practice and leads a 10 minute silence. Jayne offers coaching in meditation. [email protected]
Today there is an international silence at 1pm for 9 minutes in honour honour and mourn the countless black people who have lost their lives to police brutality and racism around the world. 9 minutes is the amount of time George Floyd was under the knee of the police officer and who died as a result of this on May 25th 2020.
June 5th Mindful Neurodiversity Meditation with Sarah
June 6th Mindful walking meditation- racial disparity
Article in The Guardian- George Floyd
Pod Cast from Harvard - recial disparity and coronavirus
Disparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19 , Public Health England
www.carersupportmatters.co.uk is the EHCAP coronavirus information and support webpage
June 7th Wheel of Wellness guided mindful meditation
British Psychological Society - guidance on supporting care experienced children
pdf of Wellness Wheel mindful activity
Free resources from Dr Dan Siegel - The Wheel of Awareness
WEEKLY MEDITATIONS
June 11th with Jayne MacGregor - Jayne is offering meditation coaching
June 18th - Silent Meditation led by Dr Sarah Temple
contemplation from Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
June 25th - Silent meditation and mindful walk
Connecting with human suffering during this pandemic
July 2nd - holding colleagues and friends in mind who are tipping into toxic stress during this pandemic
July 9th -Mindful Meditation in St Ives, Cornwall
July 23rd- Mindful Meditation - silent
July 31st - Mindful meditation with a mindful walk
August 6th - Silent meditation
Holding in mind those members of our families and communities with dementia
August 13th- Silent meditation
Holding in mind all those members of our families and communities affected by ALevel results
August 20th- Silent meditation - no recording available
A Level and GCSE results
August 27th - Silent movement meditation
September 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th - no recordings
OCTOBER 8TH - A CRITICAL TIME IN THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Silent meditation with mindful walk contemplating the wisdom of Eileen Munro
October 22nd - how can our government refuse funding for school meals during holidays?
November 5th- silent meditation on the first day of the second lock down in England
November 12th - well of wellness live stream on facebook
November 26th - Live Stream on Facebook
December 3rd - Live Stream on Facebook
December 10th - Live Stream on Facebook
December 17th - Live Stream on Facebook
December 24th- Live Stream on Facebook
December 31st - Live Stream on Facebook
January 7th 2021 - Live Stream Facebook
January 14th 2021- Live Stream Facebook
January 28th 2021- Live Stream Facebook
February 4th- Live Stream Facebook
reading from A New Zealand Prayer Book
February 19th - Live Stream on Facebook
contemplating Long Covid
February 25th Wheel of Wellness Meditation
March 4th- silent meditation
March 11th - sitting with sadness
March 18th - silent meditation
March 25th - silent meditation- self care
April 24th - silent meditation
June 10th - Silent Meditation
July 22nd- Silent Meditation