How can compassion change societies?

with Debbie Abrahams MP, Marcela Matos, Mick Cooper, Tania Singer and Reggie Hubbard

We know that compassion can have a transformative impact on individuals. And increasingly we're seeing how compassion can be used as a guiding light to help structure and organize our schools, hospitals, and workplaces as places of care, inclusion, and inspiration. But how do we use all this knowledge to bring change at the society level? What does the science of compassion tell us about how to shift hearts and minds in ways that create positive changes for all? And just as importantly, how do we make it all happen?

Debbie Abrahams MP

Marcela Matos

Mick Cooper

Tania Singer

Reggie Hubbard

Debbie Abrahams

Debbie Abrahams has been UK Labour MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth since 2011. She is Co-Chair of the All-Parliamentary Group for Compassionate Politics and was the 2020 winner of the Labour People’s Choice MP of the Year Award.

Mick Cooper

Mick is an internationally recognised authority in the field of counselling and psychotherapy and a chartered psychologist. He is author of the book Psychology at the Heart of Social Change.

Reggie Hubbard

Reggie is the Founder of Active Peace Yoga. He teaches Members of Congress, Congressional Staff, leading progressive organizations and individuals, sharing techniques for growing peace and ease as a foundation, not an afterthought.

Marcela Matos

Marcela is a Clinical Psychologist and Auxiliary Researcher at the CINEICC, University of Coimbra, who has developed research in evolutionary clinical psychology and compassion focused psychological approaches. She convenes the GCC Science Committee.

Tania Singer

Tania is a German psychologist and social neuroscientist and the scientific director of the Max Planck Society’s Social Neuroscience Lab in Berlin, Germany.