CATHY CORNELL
SOCIAL WORKER
NEW YORK, NY

I have seen how the practice of innate love and wisdom helps to uncover an amazing transformative power for healing and how it empowers people to move into and beyond the limits of fear and self-doubt in their lives. In my work as a clinical social worker, I see how this practice can open people up to an experience of love and acceptance when before they had felt they were so alone... read more...

PAUL KNITTER
PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY
NEW YORK, NY

I go about my own personal practice and my teaching of Active Compassion in what can be called a “hotbed” of social activism, of resolute commitment to justice, of dedication to a “preferential option for the poor,” and of standing up boldly to “speak truth to power.” I’m talking about Union Theological Seminary in New York City.  read more...

JANE VECCHIO
COLLEGE TEACHER
NORTHAMPTON, MA

After two decades of community college teaching I was burned out, dried up, and nearly done in. I’d gone from loving my students to avoiding them, and I was in mourning for those lost connections and for my missing joy. Then I serendipitously found these mediation practices, and, slowly but profoundly, I rediscovered my connection to my work, and my students became newly precious to me. read more...