Heart Practices: Cultivating Compassion for Self and Others

Please contact us for information about the next offering of this course in 2026: compassionatesociety@yahoo.com

What to expect

In a warm, small-group setting, explore how cultivating compassion can enrich our lives and our capacity for courageous love.

Wisdom, compassion, and awareness are naturally present within the mind. But these qualities can become obscured by our habitual ways of relating to ourselves and others. Although we would like to move through life with clarity, openness, and ease, we often find our hearts contracting in the face of our own and others’ suffering and confusion. 

‘Heart Practices’ is a 6-week course that draws on the wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity, and the science of compassion. Through mindfulness, deep listening, and group enquiry, we will explore practices that uncover our natural compassion.

About the facilitators

Petrina Barson is a poet, activist, mother, therapist, and GP. She is the Director of the Centre for a Compassionate Society. She is a certified teacher of the Compassion Institute’s Compassion Cultivation Training, and has facilitated many workshops focused on deepening connection to self and others.

Petrina Barson

Tom Hardman is a provisional psychologist. He is a student of Tibetan Buddhism, and leads a weekly meditation group for CCS.

Tom Hardman