Kindness Starts With Me – Advancing Compassion Project

Kindness Starts With Me A Model for Engaging Elementary School Children in a Lifestyle of Kindness Advancing Compassion Project Learning compassion, much like learning a language, is easiest and most effective when it starts early. Advancing Compassion Project is helping to launch an innovative program that could serve as a model for elementary schools, helping students to think about kindness in their own lives, and use it to help build a better world. Kindness Starts With Me is being … [Read more...]

Kindness Starts With Me

Thanks to the support, Kindness Starts With Me is launched! The objective couldn’t be more timely when so much attention in the news has been focused on the effects of bullying, teaching a kindness lifestyle reinforces and inspires children to be kinder, more loving and accepting. I realized the importance of involving children directly in the development of the kindness project – and I decided to design and test the program with a group of students at a Sarasota's Alta Vista Elementary … [Read more...]