Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman

What a wonderful summit, with so many caring and knowledgeable presenters and their session hosts. I felt like a dear friend who had been visiting was leaving when the summit ended. I am looking ardently forward to the next one, which I trust will be equally as enlightening and enriching.

thank you so much for your work and this deepening hours in the self-compassion way!
It is so amazing and touching the big und growing community of mindfulness and compassion around the world.

Thank you so much Jack and Trudy. Your words bring joy, love and ealing. As terapists and teachers we need to be reminded that is all about simplicity and love. Lovely

Loved! Jack’s really descriptive comment.

Thank you for the wonderful and inspiring talk Trudy and Jack! I had a dream last night where I was holding a female client on my back and was wondering with my wife this morning what it meant to me. When you did the guided practice meditation, Jack, I realized that is was very much related to this conference on compassion. How I was holding so much emotion because of the pandemic, but also because of a number of family and friends who have died in the past month. I realized that I can carry that load, but I can also feel self-compassion to lighten it too. Thank you!

Thank You so much for a lot of beatiful inspiration in the work with therapy and others.

Thank you for a wonderful and inspiring presentation. I couldn’t believe it was free, but greatly appreciate the opportunity to attend at no cost, especially during this challenging financial experience.

This Summit was so helpful in so many ways ! Mindfulness and compassion are two great tools to face the suffer and pain , along with others . Hopefully this will reach the hearts of all of us in the practice of helping others .
Thank you very much

Appreciated parts of this talk yet was disappointed with some of their comments on compassion and systemic racism as. It seemed like there was an equalizing of the pain/fear when saying things like what we need to do is all find compassion from the realization that we’re ALL in pain – and, if they didn’t mean this, they should have been very, very clear because this is often the dominant paradigm among liberal white people who concern themselves with racial justice but often fall into Dr. King’s category of dangerous “white moderate.”

And the problem with equalizing pain and putting an equal responsibility to approach the other with compassion – or even seeming to! – is that it silences the very real and understandable distrust, righteous anger, and rage that is the result of centuries of unaddressed and continued trauma. It weaponizes peace. It weaponizes compassion. Because while we often white-wash Dr. King’s message, even he strongly advocated for accountability and justice before peace and unity.

With this as the foundational understanding, perhaps then there could be a more nuanced discussion of where compassion might fit in. Like perhaps a helpful role for the Black community to utilize self-compassion, for white people to find compassion for the sufferings of the Black community (once or at the same time they pursue truth and justice), and even self-compassion for white people as they do the work of racial justice which is very hard, but NOT for the Black community to be more focused on having compassion for white communities than on getting to express their emotions and demand, at long last, change.

So I wish they have a much more nuanced approach to where compassion fits into racial justice, rather than just saying “ahhh we all need to be compassionate and see that all of us are in pain.” Unfortunately this shows that even enlightened white practitioners that have so much to offer in many ways, still have so much to learn about being anti-racist practitioners.