National Day of Compassion 21 September 2021

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September 21, 2021, marks the inaugural National Day of Compassion which has been organised by the
Australian Compassion Council.

Please join us in learning about the remarkable acts of compassion occurring across our continent. This National Day of Compassion will include a live event at 7am, with representatives from the Australian and Global Charter for Compassion.

EVENT REGISTRATION CLOSED

This will be followed by live streaming of over 60 video conversations with the ACC ambassadors, and leaders from cities across Australia applying compassion in the arts, healthcare, business, education, environment, peace, inter-spirituality, social justice and in research.

To join at any time throughout the day, go to Facebook or click here:
https://www.facebook.com/CharterforCompassion/

The contribution of Compassionate Ballarat to this national day includes:

Launching the Compassionate Heroes Ballarat eBook - stories from Ballarat students and their extraordinary acts of compassion. Read the book here:
Compassion Heroes Ballarat.pdf

Releasing a video recording of a peace poem written and
performed by Megan J Riedl: Watch here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CtkSIykP-pgDZmLEVAqV5esGJMMwZ6-T/view

Featuring Cr Belinda Coates, Ben Kelly, Dr Mary Hollick and Madonna Quixley who are all represented in the video stories being streamed throughout the day:
https://www.facebook.com/CharterforCompassion/

Playing a range of musical performances throughout the day.

The Concert for Compassion:
https://federation.edu.au/news/articles/the-concert-for-compassion

Tree by Tree:
https://vimeo.com/399368203

What a Wonderful World
What a Wonderful World, The Ballarat Arts Academy and The BallaRat Pack Orchestra - YouTube

Virtual Soul Choir Ray of Sunshine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l732pNI-Kko

Song of Celebration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlEka7idwas

Investigating a compassion research project on social and emotional learning in early childhood.
https://federation.edu.au/news/articles/the-global-social-and-emotional-learning-program-helping-young-children

Gifting a peace pole to Sebastopol Primary School by Let's Talk Peace Ballarat, as part of Rotary Australia’s Centennial project.
https://www.canberrarotarypeacebell.org/peace-polls/

In the lead up to both the National Day of Compassion and the International Day of Peace, last week Compassionate Ballarat and Let’s talk Peace Ballarat co-hosted a discussion with Dr Kerry Howells a global expert in gratitude on how gratitude can create and sustain peaceful societies.
Dr Kerry Howells - Untangling You

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2024 National Day of Compassion

By Lynne Reeder • October 7, 2024

Each year the Australian Compassion Council holds a National Day of Compassion, to provide a meaningful opportunity for all Australians to participate in learning about and in practicing compassion. This is the fourth year this National Day has been convened and each National Day has a theme and in 2024 our Theme is Compassion and Deep Connection which featured six facets of deep connection including: Contested spaces - Indigenous Justice - Peace Culture - Repairing Relationships - Innate Connection with our Environment - Dealing with our Distracted World. The National Day started with a launch that included presentations from the CEO of the global Charter for Compassion, Marilyn Turkovich on the Charter’s involvement in the 19th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates – with the Australian Charter Ambassador, Hugh Mackay, AO on Deep Connection in Community - and with the National Lead of the Australian Compassion Council, Dr Lynne Reeder on a Compassionate City project entitled Seeds of Compassion along with some inspiring young students and their compassionate wishes for their city. You can access the video recordings of this day here:

Seeds of Compassion – Final Report

By Brett Allen • October 7, 2024

The purpose of this project was to plant seeds of compassion to promote Ballarat as a caring city underpinned by the compassionate wishes of its future leaders. Nearly 100 wishes were received from Ballarat students in Year 6 and Year 10 classes and the collected wishes were subject to a content analysis and were written up under the following five headings: 1) INCLUSION - ACCEPTANCE – BELONGING 2) RESPECT - UNITY – PEACE 3) SAFE – PROTECTED – COMPASSIONATE 4) COHESION – HARMONY – EQUALITY 5) THRIVING – MEANING – POTENTIAL The student’s wishes will be distributed across Ballarat, and they will also be circulated to cities around the world who have signed the Charter for Compassion. By sharing this report globally, we offer these cities a valuable demonstration project for them to consider replicating, and Compassionate Ballarat will continue to work with the City Council to make tangible, as many of these wishes as possible.

Compassion and Care Award 2024 Award Winner - Maggie Phillips

By Lynne Reeder • September 2, 2024

In 2024 the Compassion and Care Award was won by Maggie Phillips for her participation in the World's Greatest Shave and fundraising for the Leukaemia Foundation to spread awareness and educate us all about the 140,000 families who face blood cancer right now, and that it takes the lives of 16 people every day. Maggie’s efforts in raising money goes towards those individuals in the community suffering, and into research to prevent future pain. Maggie shows true compassion and care for members of the community which we are very grateful for. In 2024 the finalists in this category included: Adelle Weidemann, Charlotte Gibson, Eva Xie, Madelaine Hutchinson and Maggie Phillips. Compassionate Ballarat congratulates all the award finalists and winner for the compassionate work they do in the community and in recognition Ben Kelly, Chair of Compassionate Ballarat personally presented this Award to Maggie.