Moving towards global compassion
We’ve asked our community what compassion looks like to join in on our movement for Global Compassion by participating in our #PictureCompassion campaign. After looking through many inspiring photos, we’ve selected our top 5 favorites!
A Note from Dr. Paul Ekman:
As our submitted photos show, compassion is the desire to help someone who is suffering or to prevent suffering entirely. I call the impulse to relieve immediate suffering “proximal compassion”. Acting to prevent future suffering I call “distal compassion”. The first, proximal compassion, really engages our emotions, whereas distal compassion relies more heavily upon cognition as we try to forecast dangers to avoid.
Thank you to all who participated. We appreciate your efforts in helping us create global compassion!
Winning Photos
Photo of two girls embracing, Submitted by Edner Baumhardt & Lauren Lacerda Nunes
Photo of homeless man near car, Submitted by Nilasis Sen
Photo of Grandmother, Submitted by Richard Munn
Photo of small girls kissing, Submitted by Adek Tanjung
Photo of T&T’s National Triathlon Championships 2014, Submitted by Shaun Rambaran
To learn more about the Paul Ekman’s work on compassion you can watch his new webisode series “Developing Global Compassion” or read his latest book “Moving Toward Global Compassion“, both featuring his one-on-one conversations with the Dalai Lama.
