Episode 4: How to Build Compassion Muscles

Episode 4: How to Build Compassion Muscles

In this episode Meg and Sendolo have a conversation about how they built up their capacities around compassion and the different ways that we find and resource ourselves for those challenging moments of compassion. Add your voice to the project If you have thoughts, ideas, suggestions, things you’d like to see us discuss in the future we welcome them all! Connect with us by email us at generosityisradical@gmail.com [generosityisradical@gmail.com] or by leaving a voicemail at Meg’s Google Voice number 802-222-0091, we’d love to hear from you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit generosityisradical.substack.com [https://generosityisradical.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Episode 3: An Alternative to the Scarcity Model of Compassion

In this episode Sendolo and Meg discuss the current ways that we relate to compassion and their alternative vision. The current ways compassion is seen in society is that it’s something that some people deserve and other’s do not, and it’s something that some people have the inner-capacity to give and others just don’t. Meg and Sendolo present an alternative idea, how compassion might actually be a generative and renewable resource and what shifting our relationship to compassion might mean for all of us. What if compassion is the natural response to suffering. Add your voice to the project If you have thoughts, ideas, suggestions, things you’d like to see us discuss in the future we welcome them all! Connect with us by email us at generosityisradical@gmail.com [generosityisradical@gmail.com] or by leaving a voicemail at Meg’s Google Voice number 802-222-0091, we’d love to hear from you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit generosityisradical.substack.com [https://generosityisradical.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Episode 2: Why Compassion can be a Struggle

In this episode Meg & Sendolo discuss why it’s often a challenge for all of us to access a feeling or mindset of compassion in challenging or activating moments. We get into a conversation about the difference between anger and condemnation, how anger can be a tender emotion, and why tender vs. hardened emotions can move us toward action for a more loving world. Add your voice to the project If you have thoughts, ideas, suggestions, things you’d like to see us discuss in the future we welcome them all! Connect with us by email us at generosityisradical@gmail.com [generosityisradical@gmail.com] or by leaving a voicemail at Meg’s Google Voice number 802-222-0091, we’d love to hear from you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit generosityisradical.substack.com [https://generosityisradical.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Episode #1: Why Generosity is Radical

In this first episode Meg & Sendolo discuss why generosity is powerful, why privilege discourse won’t get us to victory or the good life, and what we can learn about radical generosity from Alok and a West African revolutionary movement against colonial rule. Add your voice to the project If you have thoughts you want to share with us after listening to the episode we welcome all thoughts, questions, suggestions for future conversations, and your stories of radical generosity. Email us at generosityisradical@gmail.com [generosityisradical@gmail.com] Show Notes 🙋‍♀️ Alok! Their Website [https://www.alokvmenon.com/about] | Meg’s favorite podcast w/ them [https://manenough.com/alok/] | Alok’s Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/alokvmenon/] on Shame [https://www.instagram.com/p/CqrcrFygF4v/], Love Wins [https://www.instagram.com/p/ChcBkFtI5QF/], Compassion > Comprehension [https://www.instagram.com/p/CiA5r2pgBRe/] 📚 See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur [https://valariekaur.com/see-no-stranger/] 📄 Guinea-Bissau’s Liberation Struggle Against Portuguese Imperialism [https://jacobin.com/2022/12/guinea-bissau-liberation-struggle-amilcar-cabral-west-africa-anti-colonialism/] Additional Resources! 📄 Coalition Politics: Turning the Century by Bernice Johnson Reagon [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/fs-2015-0115] 📚 Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. [https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/45754985] 📺 White Right: Meeting the Enemy directed/starring Deeyah Khan [https://deeyah.com/blog/white-right-meeting-enemy/] 📚 Between Slavery and Freedom: Philosophy and American Slavery by Howard McGary and Bill E. Lawson [https://iupress.org/9780253207456/between-slavery-and-freedom/] 📚 Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus [https://bookshop.org/p/books/biomimicry-innovation-inspired-by-nature-janine-m-benyus/7908133?ean=9780060533229] 🎧 Biomimicry - On Being Podcast Episode [https://onbeing.org/programs/janine-benyus-biomimicry-an-operating-manual-for-earthlings/] with Janine Benyus 🎧 Additional On Being Episodes John Lewis: Love in Action [https://onbeing.org/programs/john-lewis-love-in-action/] and Ruby Sales: Where Does it Hurt [https://onbeing.org/programs/ruby-sales-where-does-it-hurt/] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit generosityisradical.substack.com [https://generosityisradical.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]