Join us for an insightful conversation on the power of compassion in transforming healthcare at every level – from individual patient care to global health initiatives. Our time together is 90 minutes. The first hour is designated for the panel of experts, and the remaining 30 minutes are for Networking Conversations. You can join us for the event, networking, or both. Your choice!

How can compassion reshape healthcare – improving patient outcomes, reducing provider burnout, and addressing global health inequities?

Meet Our Expert Panelists:

- Pantea Vahidi: A leader in compassion education, blending her background in engineering and nursing to reimagine how we care for patients and providers.

- Melissa Segal: A specialist in healthcare culture transformation, working to create environments where both patients and caregivers can thrive.

- Heather Buesseler: A pioneer at the intersection of human-centered design and compassion cultivation in health systems around the world.

What to Expect:

- Real-World Insights: Learn how compassionate approaches can address challenges across healthcare, from provider burnout to global health disparities.

- Practical Strategies: Gain actionable tools for embedding compassion into your actions and work, whether you’re a provider, leader, or advocate.

- Connection & Collaboration: Engage in dynamic conversations with fellow changemakers, and stay for an optional 30-minute networking session to deepen relationships and explore opportunities for impact.

Why This Matter:

Healthcare is at a tipping point—burnout is rising, health disparities are widening, and patients often feel like numbers rather than people. Compassion isn’t just kindness; it’s a proven strategy for improving patient outcomes, reducing provider stress, and strengthening healthcare systems. Yet, it remains undervalued in clinical and policy decisions.

This conversation goes beyond theory to explore actionable, evidence-based ways to embed compassion into healthcare, creating lasting change for individuals, organizations, and global health systems alike.

Through evidence and real-world examples, we'll examine how cultivating compassion can create ripple effects that benefit individuals, organizations, and communities worldwide.

Compassion isn’t just a feeling—it’s a powerful force for systemic change. Register now to join the conversation and be part of the movement toward a more compassionate, equitable healthcare system.

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Want to see a happier, kinder world? You're not as alone as you think.

Join us for an engaging and intimate online gathering where every small action can create a ripple of positive change. This vibrant Zoom meeting is full of interactive discussions, sharings, and meditations designed to boost your wellbeing and spark practical ideas for making a difference. 

What to Expect:

Plenty of Engagement: Unlike our usual webinars, you’ll have the opportunity to be on screen with us and to speak and interact if you feel like it. This will open up the chance for a dynamic experience where we can explore together the ways in which small actions make a big difference.

Inspiring Stories & Practical Tips: Hear personal stories and actionable advice from the Action for Happiness Volunteer Team (Alex Nunn, Joshua French and Jess De Ayala), who bring a wealth of experience and passion to the conversation.

The Ripple Effect: Learn how even the smallest act of kindness can set off a chain reaction, creating waves of happiness and positivity throughout our communities.

Who is this for? Anyone who feels ready to play a deeper role in this amazing movement. Maybe you've been involved with us for a while and are looking for an inspiring boost. Perhaps you are fairly new, but you sense that you could gain something by being more active in Action for Happiness.

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At a time when our world can feel increasingly divided, and many are retreating into isolation, civil rights scholar john a. powell offers a transformative approach to building connections across differences. Drawing from his groundbreaking work with the Othering & Belonging Institute and his own journey, john shows how to stop perceiving differences as threats and instead use them as opportunities for deeper understanding and collective growth. Through rich personal stories and documented study, he explains how bridging practices can help us heal ruptures in our families, workplaces, and communities.

This conversation explores practical ways to overcome the ‘us versus them’ mindset that dominates our current discourse and create a world where everyone truly belongs. Whether we’re struggling with political divides, generational gaps, or cultural differences, powell’s insights offer concrete tools for building meaningful connections in an age of separation.

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How can we create a happier world together?

Lasting happiness comes from caring for each other, feeling connected and being part of something bigger. Join us for a special event to celebrate International Day of Happiness (20 March) with this year's theme of Caring and Sharing.

• Prof Lara Aknin will launch the new World Happiness Report 2025 and share the most important new insights from this year's report.

• Dr Radha Modgil will explore how we can apply this to our lives, including ways to help ourselves and each other, even in tough times.

• Dr Mark Williamson will host the event and help us all take away practical actions to feel happier and more connected to others.

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In today’s world, the ability to consistently innovate and keep delivering hits is more important than ever before. But what are the secrets behind repeat innovation? How do some creators manage to not only break through once but continue to produce innovative work time and time again? In this talk, Justin Berg will dive deep into the mechanisms that fuel continuous creativity and success. Drawing on his cutting-edge scientific research, Justin will unveil the patterns, practices, and mindsets of those who achieve sustained innovation, using compelling case studies to bring these concepts to life. He will explore the benefits of building a diverse portfolio of ideas and experiences, the critical balance between leveraging past successes and venturing into new territories, and the role of continuity and conviction in overcoming inevitable setbacks. 

Host: Monica Worline, Faculty Director, Center for Positive Organizations

Speaker: Justin Berg, Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, University of Michigan

Justin Berg is an award-winning researcher and teacher on the science of creativity and innovation. He holds a PhD in management and organizational behavior from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. After spending a decade on the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, he realized his longtime dream of returning to the University of Michigan – his undergraduate alma mater – as a tenured professor at the Ross School of Business. His groundbreaking research reveals how we can identify our own and others’ most promising ideas, and what differentiates “one-hit wonders” who struggle to repeat their initial success from “hitmakers” who are able to consistently produce successful innovations.

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How do different perspectives shape mindfulness? In this strand, take a look at mindfulness-based approaches in light of today's big challenges, like social inequality, racial injustice, and the ecological crisis, and how these affect individuals and groups. In the keynote "Deepening the Roots of Socially-Engaged Mindfulness: Awareness-based Support for Change and Transformation in Troubled Times," Rhonda Magee examines how mindfulness may be the key to developing the moral flexibility and empathy needed to better manage today’s challenges. The address describes why and how socio-ethical mindfulness can maximise our capacity to choose actions that connect rather than divide, and to deepen the roots of wellbeing for us all in these times.

This event is part of the International Conference on Mindfulness (ICM:2024) post-conference programme. Open to all.

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with Paul Gilbert, Steven Hayes, Chris Germer and Daniel Ellenberg

You are invited to a thoughtful, powerful, and important conversation on the transformative power of compassion and self-compassion for boys and men. We have the good fortune of learning from three major thought leaders and practitioners in the integration of psychology, mindfulness, and compassion. Our panelists are central theorists and developers of Compassion Focused Therapy (Paul Gilbert), Mindful Self-Compassion (Chris Germer), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Steven Hayes). The panel moderator will be Daniel Ellenberg, founder of the Men and Boys Compassion Coalition. The conversation will include their own experiences, research findings, and practical recommendations on both why we need to focus on compassion and self-compassion as essential male traits and how we can overcome the factors that stop compassion and self-compassion from becoming core male traits. The conversation will be both thought-provoking and practical.

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with Matthew Legge

What can we do in the face of so much deep societal polarization and unrest? Learning to communicate with one another more effectively and compassionately is crucial. Join us for an inspiring, practical, and interactive workshop with author Matt Legge, who will share practical tips for better quality disagreements and conversations across divides. As well as learning the theory, there will also be an opportunity to practice and hone your listening and communication skills with others in Zoom.

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