International compassion community
Are you in need for some inner peace?
✓ Do you feel that it’s important to keep your life in balance?
✓ Will you allow yourself more inner peace, focus, and kindness?
✓ Would you like to be inspired by experienced and renowned meditation teachers ?
✓ Do you desire more quiet moments of mindfulness, reflection, and contemplation?
✓ Would you like to receive tips on how to train and integrate focus and compassion your daily life and professional activities?
✓ Are you somebody who would like to connect with others who care?
Then the International Compassion Community is right for you!
Our mission is to make online live guided meditations accessible to everyone; regardless of personal financial situation. That is why we have chosen to also add the option for ‘free membership’.
This is only possible through the generosity of those who can afford to take out a paid membership and thus make this not-for-profit initiative sustainably possible.
We would like to ask you to take the above into account when choosing your membership.
Thank you.
International Compassion Community for People who care
Our community is a gathering place for people who care. A virtual space where you can recharge and let yourself be guided and inspired by international teachers. We cultivate a quiet meeting place, interaction is optional – only if it is right for you. Here you can take a moment for yourself away from all the hectic day to day responsibilities.
Do you desire to cultivate your calm, focus, and compassion in order to be more resilient and improve your life balance? Or rather, are you in need of support and motivation to meditate regularly? Join us and see for yourself what the community can mean for you.
We are very proud to be partner of the Global Compassion Coalition and its support of our International Compassion Community.
What does the compassion community offer you?
The following 7 elements come together to make the Compassion Community unique:
01
Live guided meditations
Join us every Thursday from 7.45-8.15 PM (GMT) online for live meditations, together with other people who care. We support you in your personal meditative practice and this will strengthen your focus, balance and kindness. Once a week, on Thursday, the meditations will be led in English and three times a week (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday ) the sessions are led in Dutch.
7.45-8.15 PM GMT (London, UK)
8.45 – 9.15 PM CET (Amsterdam, Europe)
2.45 – 3.15 PM EST (New York. West Coast USA)
11.45 -12.15 AM PST (San Francisco, East Coast USA)
6.45 – 7.15 AM AEDT (Sidney, Australia)
4.45-5.15 AM AEDT (Melbourne, Australia)
02
Translation to daily life and work
During the opening and closing reflections you will receive short suggestions for integrating what we have practiced in your daily work and daily life.
03
Experienced International Meditation Teachers
Each of these evening sessions, is a new opportunity to be guided by a very experienced meditation teacher. Our teachers come from quite diverse backgrounds and the community is inclusive for all who care. The meditations are inspired by the traditional teachings and methods and are supported by modern insights from research.
04
Webinars About Mindfulness and Compassion
Every 3-4 months you are invited to attend an hour long session for free. Our internationally renowned expert will discuss the applications and recent discoveries about meditation, mindfulness, compassion, care and or (personal) leadership.
Some of our speakers who have rallied behind our mission are: Professor Michael West (The King’s Fund), Professor Megan Reitz (Ashridge Business School), Robert Cusick (CCARE Stanford), Irène Bakker (Zen Master), Barbara Doeleman-van Veldhoven (founder BFC CCMM) and many more. . .
These webinars will alternate between Dutch and English. They will also be recorded so you can watch or re-watch them at a later moment. These webinars are offered donation-based.
05
Q&A with the Meditation Teacher
Every now and then we organize a 20-minute Q&A. This session directly follows a meditation so that you can share and ask questions about your experience. These sessions will similarly alternate between Dutch and English.
06
Insights and Inspiration in Your Inbox
You will receive the BFC e-newsletter with special offers, news and insights surrounding the topics of mindfulness, meditation and compassion.
07
Pre-Recorded Meditations
As member you will gain access to our extensive database of pre-recorded meditations from our own teachers. In this way you can choose to re-live interesting sessions or even meditate on your own schedule if you happen to miss our evening meditation.
Would you like to meditate?
Through meditation you get to know yourself better so you can relate more skillfully and compassionately to yourself and therefor to the world and people around you.