Cities / Communities
What is a Compassionate Community
A City or Community of Compassion is a community that recognizes compassion is a valuable asset in problem solving. As part of an International, and naturally California Community of Compassion initiative, each community (city, county, region, etc.) caring for their unique and interrelated issues and collaborating towards their interrelated solutions brings their own dynamic of models and methodologies depending on their unique challenges and resources. |
In a Compassionate Community, people are motivated by compassion to take responsibility for and care for each other. There is a desire for the needs of everyone to be recognized and met, where the well-being of the entire community is a priority, and all people and living things are treated with respect.
In fact, no single community in the world is a Compassionate Community in any abstract or formal sense, just as no community is devoid of compassion. |