Seeds of Compassion – A Joint Project Between the City of Ballarat and Compassionate Ballarat

Lynne Reeder • August 2, 2024

With many recent traumas in Ballarat, the City of Ballarat approached Compassionate Ballarat about a healing project that might bring the city together. In response CB suggested a project which involved planting seeds of compassion to promote Ballarat as a caring city through the compassionate wishes of its future leaders. CB members Dr Lynne Reeder and Mary Darcy developed a teacher’s guide to assist schools in gathering those wishes from Year 6 and Year 10 students.


On Friday 26 July this project was launched by Mayor Des Hudson who invited the students to hand their written wishes to him, and to other adults present as a ‘call to action’ for the students’ wishes for our city to come true. The outcome of this project will be a book that will comprise all the wishes from participating students and be will be distributed to other compassionate cities


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This story has also been covered in the Ballarat Times
https://timesnewsgroup.com.au/ballarat/news/a-compassionatecall-to-action/

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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:
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