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Compassion Boats

FLYING GONDOLAS

Video creation realized by Raffaele Najjar - instagram @raffo_vfx Let's navigate together soon!

"COMPASSION CONNECTS THE ARTS" Floating Installations in Venice: You could always write your quote and JOIN!

WHEN CONFRONTED WITH SUFFERING, LOOK FOR THE HELPERS!

We had created our floating art installations about compassion at the same time of the Venice Biennials with many visuals and quotes we receive via email about the impact of compassion in our lives.

We are always glad to receive answers via email from you to the basic question: How you had received or had given compassionate actions when confronted with the ups and down that happens in a lifetime? How they had changed and helped you?

Looking forward to connecting, promoting the impact of #compassion in life and receiving your personal written answers & visual contributions via email: info@compassionboats.com

Compassion Boats

Providing safe spaces for reflection, education, creativity, care and communication actions to meditate, study and promote compassion.

To understand, transform and alleviate mental and emotional suffering in a context full of nature elements, healing arts and presence.

To travel interesting online and offline itineraries guided by compassion values, principles and practices from the artistic waters of Venice and abroad to the inner worlds and wellbeing waters of each human being.

The Compassion Boats initiatives will be implemented with the following actions:

-THE NAVIGATION EXPERIENCES

-THE INNER NAVIGATION BOOKLETS

-THE MAPS, ITINERARIES AND PROGRAMS

-THE BOARD BOAT DIARIES

-THE COMMUNICATION MATERIALS

-THE COMMUNITY

-THE CARING TRANSPORTS AND SERVICES

-THE PORTS, HARBOURS AND LANDS

You could join these initiatives with the format of impermanent boats gatherings in the constant flow:

-From remote: accessing to our written and video materials, connecting online to our events.

-In presence: joining individual journeys or group boat trips. Please note that the boat types are diverse: well-known "gondolas", electric and hybrid boats, sailing boats, rowing boats, etc. The Itineraries could last an hour, a morning, a full day, full weekends depending on the program. Capacity is limited according to the boat types.

Long-term partnerships with specific groups interested in discovering more about the compassion values and principles with meditation practices is possible.

And if you would like to go deeper into compassion education for a period of time, we provide in these settings the Emory University Cognitively-Based Compassion Trainings CBCT^®

CBCT^® (Cognitively-Based Compassion Training) is a system of contemplative exercises designed to strengthen and sustain compassion. Practices include training in attentional stability and increased emotional awareness, as well as targeted analytical reflections to understand better one’s relationship with self and others. The reflective exercises seek critical insights into the way one’s mindsets and attitudes can be shifted to support personal resiliency, to foster an inclusive and more accurate understanding of others, and ultimately to intensify altruistic motivation. With practice, informed compassion can become a spontaneous response that permeates one’s life.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you any questions.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF COMPASSION WITH:

Boat trips
Virtual zoom boat trips
Meditations Journeys
Inner navigation guides
Variety of Map Itineraries
Caring experiences
Healing arts activities
Connection to nature
Self-compassion
Interaction with others
Alleviation of mental and emotional suffering
Insights to personal transformation
Communication Materials
CBCT^® Trainings
Social, Emotional and Ethical Learning (SEE Learning^®) for children
Compassion in action
Caring transports and services
Safe ports, harbours and lands blog
Trauma informed healing

About Us

Welcome to our home page, where you can find out all the news, updates and information about the upcoming compassion boats initiatives and events.

The ultimate aim of the Applied Compassion Training is to prepare people who feel an urgency to bring forth and integrate compassionate action into their occupations, professions, communities and institutions, as well as into their personal development. ACT offers participants a chance to apply compassion in practice during the program and use the dialogue, skill-building, and tools in real-time. Participants who successfully complete ACT will be in a variety of fields as AMBASSADORS of compassion in many fields, including educators, facilitators, consultants, physicians, nurses, coaches, and leaders of all kinds.

The Compassion Boats is a capstone project developed by E.V.A.L. for the Applied Compassion Training (ACT®) by the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education of Stanford Medicine.