Compassion in the Classroom of Life with Jimi Slattery

“You can train your mind to become more compassionate and therefore your brain can grow in the parts that are adept for compassion and for prosocial behavior and emotional regulation, and for developing deeper connections with people. All of those things can be developed.”

What is compassion? Can it be taught? What is the difference between being compassionate and being nice? Join compassion (and compassionate!) thought-leader Jimi Slattery as he educates us on the centrality of compassion in relationships. In today’s globalized world, we tend to work better when we view others with a compassionate lens. This episode explains why that is the case.

Jimi Slattery is Executive Director at The Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion and runs the organization’s education project, Compassion Matters. Before joining the DLCC, Jimi spent time living in a Buddhist monastery, worked in international education and was Head of Widening Participation at the University of Oxford. In the former role, he had the opportunity to work in several countries around the world in areas of teaching literacy, primary and secondary education. In the latter, he was responsible for the University’s outreach work with young people. While working for Oxford, his work focused on mindfulness, primary education, mental health, digital learning and emotional intelligence. Jimi now focuses on supporting the teaching of compassion, ethics and social-emotional learning through a free project for schools, Compassion Matters.