September is about Peace (Compassion)

Compassion can be experienced between people and towards all living beings including ourselves. Cultivating inner peace through self-compassion enables us to extend genuine compassion to others, creating a ripple effect, inspiring others to do the same. By fostering both inner peace and compassion, we are directly contributing to a more peaceful and compassionate world, making the world a better place for everyone in it.

Classroom question of the month:

How do you show kindness to yourself?

Let’s practise!

Create compassion collages. Get students to practise kindness and record their mood. 

Class Activity 1: 1h to 1h and 30 mins
Creative Challenge: Compassion Collage 
Task: Create a Compassion Collage. 

• Step 1: Collect together images, photographs, drawings, illustrations and quotes which you think most clearly demonstrate the idea of compassion - towards, others, the natural world or self-compassion.  
• Step 2: Create a collage using these images and quotations.

Class Activity 2: 5 minutes every day for 2 weeks
Research Challenge: The Impact of Compassion 
Task: Keep a mood record

• Week 1: Live life as usual. At the end of every day record how happy you feel on a scale of 1-5. 
• Week 2: Every day do one act of kindness for a person or the natural world. Record your happiness levels each day using the same scale. 

What do your results show? Have your happiness levels improved, stayed constant or decreased? Do you think you should continue practising compassion in your daily life?