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Global Compassion Coalition

The Global Compassion Coalition (GCC) is a worldwide movement to make compassion a civic, cultural, and environmental force. Join 100,000+ readers and subscribe to our “Coming Home” newsletter for inspiration and connection, uplifting news, prosocial science and practical tips to cultivate compassion in your life and community. Join us as we build a more kind and just future, together.

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Coming Home: The World We Hold in Common

Hello Dear Community, We are living through a time when so much of what sustains life — clean air, trustworthy information, public health, even our attention — feels strained, fragmented, or captured by private interests. The systems designed to manage our shared resources often treat them as commodities, and thus impoverish our relationship to them and to each other. The result is the erosion of trust, depleted ecosystems and a growing sense of orphanhood. An alternative framework has been...

Hello Dear Community, We live in times in which outrage often dominates headlines and social media feeds. Anger against cruelty and injustice can be a mobilizing force, and draw attention to urgent problems. But when outrage becomes our default mode, it oversimplifies complex issues, narrows our perspective, and makes people we don’t like or disagree with into “others”. What’s more, research suggests that, when not balanced by awareness and emotional regulation, reactive anger can erode...

Hello Dear Community, Rituals are one of humanity’s oldest forms of care: symbolic gestures that say “this moment matters”, “you matter.” As the year draws to a close and life grows hectic, these moments of intention can bring us back into connection. Whether simple or elaborate, rituals invite us to pause and remember what we’re tending to beneath the surface of our days. Ritual exists along a wide spectrum; from a few words of gratitude before a meal to a carefully held ceremony shared with...