Posts by Sara Schairer

As I reflect on the second year of the pandemic, I feel proud and grateful. Compassion It has continued to step up and show up for individuals, organizations, and communities during these challenging times.    Here are our highlights from 2021: 1 – We offered compassion trainings to THOUSANDS  In 2021, we served over 2,900…

I’ve been facilitating courses on compassion for over eight years now, and there’s one thing that keeps coming up again and again:   Most of us have never learned how to have compassion for ourselves.    I remember when I first learned about self-compassion in 2012, and my compassion teacher challenged me to consider, “Think…

A kind stranger recently posted the below drawing on social media, and he tagged Compassion It and me. The Chopra.com article, Compassion in Action: 15 Easy Ways to Spread Kindness, inspired artist Bodhisatva Vivek to create the piece. In the article, I shared some of my favorite ways to “compassion it,” including: Offering your full…

Hindsight might be 2020; however, like you, Burrell and I had no way of anticipating what the year would bring. We could never have predicted that a global pandemic would shut down the world and simultaneously open hearts and minds to the value of compassion and the reality of interconnectedness.   We were both grateful…

My friend Brett’s text message to me this morning sums it up…   “You picked a hell of a week for your retreat.”   Boy, ignorance was bliss.   Yesterday afternoon, I re-emerged out of a five-day silent meditation retreat. Unlike other retreats I’ve attended, this one, like so many other pandemic-era experiences, arrived in…

  My teammate, Burrell Poe, and I recently led a 90-minute self-compassion workshop for 20 leaders of a large organization. We asked them prior to the training to share their current challenges, and this is what we heard back:   “I am worried about team burnout.” “I feel like there are too many fires to…

It’s not always easy to “compassion it.” Especially when the divisiveness created by our two-party political system takes the “united” out of the United States of America.   Dealing with the pain and uncertainties of a global pandemic certainly doesn’t help. During a time when we need more connection and compassion, politics keeps widening the…

What Happens When You Invite Your Enemies to Tea? Howard Stern entered an elevator and found himself face-to-face with Regis Philbin – a man he had been relentlessly berating on his well-known radio show. What could have been an awkward elevator ride instead became a lesson on unconditional kindness.   I’m a big fan of…