UPCOMING EVENTS
The Compassion Consortium sponsors or suggests a book, film or compassionate practice for you to consider that relates to our mission. Please join us to discuss and exchange thoughts regarding the topic being explored and its meaning to you. When possible, we will be joined by the book’s author, the film maker, or someone who is an expert in the compassionate practice being discussed.
Rescheduled - Join us for our May Compassionist Circle
Tuesday, June 24th at 8 pm Eastern / 7 pm Central / 6 pm Mountain / 5 pm Pacific
Special Invitation: Open to All This Month!
For May, our Compassionist Circle is open to all — no membership required! Whether you're part of our Compassion Consortium family or just discovering us, you’re warmly invited to join.
This month, Victoria Moran, founder of Main Street Vegan Academy (MSVA) and Co-founder of Compassion Consortium will lead our Circle with a conversation about the power of vegan living and all about this special learning experience. Main Street Vegan Academy offers a transformative training program designed to deepen your knowledge of vegan living and empower you to become an effective advocate for a compassionate world. Through expert instruction, personal mentorship, and a supportive community, you'll gain the tools to confidently coach others, speak, write, and lead with heart-centered purpose. Whether you're called to professional work or personal growth, MSVA equips you with the skills, connections, and inspiration to amplify your voice for animals, the planet, and human health.
🌱 Ready to explore MSVA? Visit mainstreetvegan.com to learn about upcoming programs!
8:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM CT / 6:00 PM MT / 5:00 PM PT
ZOOM INFO:
Meeting ID: 878 4193 2820
Passcode: 460222
We hope to see you!
Join us for a very special Sunday Service on June 15 to honor our emerging Animal Chaplain cohort!
Our celebration will feature their creative interspecies practices and will honor their achievements in creating frameworks for increasing compassionate service for animals and humans who care for and protect them.
Because this date coincides with Father's Day, we will be honoring "Dads of the Animal Kingdom" within the service, too. So, if you are a dad or would like to invite your dad, or you aren't a dad but you engage in fathering others, we'll be celebrating you, too.
Need an Animal Chaplain?
Our site Findanimalchaplain.com helps humans find support in times of interspecies crisis or concern, for example when they are confused about what is happening with the health of an animal companion (such as a “pet” cat or dog) or endangered wildlife nearby. They also support animal-care professionals. advocates, and activists. Animal chaplains provide support for both animals and humans by using deep listening, sacred ceremonies, and the tools of empathetic spiritual companionship.
Become an animal chaplain!
If you are interested in training to become an animal chaplain, our next cohort starts September 2025.
Discussion Circle for Animal Activists & Caregivers
Animal Chaplain Alaina Sigler is offering a discussion circle for individuals involved with animal advocacy and animal rescue to share and support each other with the emotional challenges that can come with advocacy and rescue. She offers a space where all emotions and experiences can be held with compassion. It alleviates a sense of isolation, which, as activists, we can often feel. Share whatever feels right in the moment, and it's completely okay if you choose not to share.
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The Discussion Circle for Animal Activists & Caregivers meets the second Monday of every month at 5:00 PM Pacific / 6:00 PM Mountain / 7 PM Central / 8 PM Eastern
The Compassion Consortium, in conjunction with Vegan Meditation, is offering a bi-weekly online peaceful half-hour of vegan-oriented meditation and mindful sharing.
We’ll meditate together in silence, then share brief thoughts on a topic related to compassion, mindfulness or veganism. Our aim through this practice is to cultivate greater internal peace and presence, and to bring greater mindfulness and compassion to our interactions with the external world and all its inhabitants. David Simon, the Chair of the Compassion Consortium Advisory Board, will host each week.
We meet Monday evenings at 6pm Pacific / 7pm MT / 8pm CT / 9pm ET for 45 minutes every first and third Monday of each month.​
Animal Companion Loss Grief Support Group
This is a space for anyone who has lost an animal companion – whether it was yesterday or many years ago – and still feels the grips of grief. This is a safe space for sharing that grief with people who understand and can relate to the feelings. In our society, the grief that comes from an animal companion loss can be diminished and dismissed. Please know, though, that the grief is real, raw, and beautiful and that it is so big because of the big and small ways they were integrated into our daily lives and our habits.
I welcome you to join us, to gently explore all the feelings – grief, sadness, anger, guilt, shame, fear, numbness, relief, loneliness, acceptance, and so much more. In this group we will support one another by our presence and with our words.
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Please join a few minutes early to ensure no technical issues.
YOU MAY BRING
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A picture that you may want to share of your beloved companion animal
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Anything that is weighing on your heart in relationship to your loss
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A journal and a pen to jot down any insights or awarenesses
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Anything else to create a cozy atmosphere! Whether it's a warm drink, a stuffed animal, blankets, or comforting scents.​
This group will start at 6:30 PM EST and run to 7:30 PM EST on Zoom.