
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.
Book Night with Victoria Moran's Age Like a Yogi
January 6, 2025 7:30 p.m. EST

Please join us to celebrate Epiphany and a brand new year as we discuss a new view of life's second half with our own Victoria Moran. Her upcoming book, Age Like a Yogi: A Heavenly Path to a Dazzling Third Act, explores spiritual awakening yoga-style, and the fundamentals of yoga’s sister science, ayurveda, for care of the body. You'll leave with practical and spiritual tools for feeling more alive and for making 2025 your best year yet.
This book is an honest and light-hearted companion for fully embracing every day and every decade. Highly recommended!
—Dean Ornish, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author
As we engage with the ideas in Age Like a Yogi, we invite you to reflect on how these teachings resonate with your own life and inspire fresh ways to age with purpose and joy. Come prepared to learn, laugh, and share, and find out how pre-ordering your copy of Age Like a Yogi can earn you perks, including an exclusive day-long Zoom seminar on growing older yogically (January 12th, recorded if you can't make it live), and the Age Like a Yogi all vegan e-cookbook.
It is the deftness with which Moran handles this delicate balance between the metaphysical and tangible that makes her guide such a pleasure to read. –Kirkus Reviews
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Victoria is the author of 14 books, including the iconic Main Street Vegan and the international bestseller, Creating a Charmed Life. She appeared twice on Oprah, was listed by VegNews among The Top 10 Living Vegetarian Authors, won Peta's Sexiest Vegan Over 50 in 2016, and was inducted in 2024 into the Vegan Hall of Fame.

Join us on January 19, 2025 for oour next Sunday Service. We'll share our commitment to interspecies spirituality through reflection, meditation, music, fellowship, and a special coversation with Christina Nellist of Pan-Orthodox Concern for Animals.
Dr. Christina Nellist, B.Ed., PhD, FOCAE, is a Presbytera and an Eastern Orthodox Christian theologian and author, specializing in Animal Suffering and Human Soteriology. She is a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
Are you feeling compassion fatigue?

Animal Chaplain Alaina Sigler is offering a much-needed service for those involved in animal advocacy. Whether you are a shelter worker, founder of an animal rescue, veterinarian or vet technician, or perhaps an activist for wild animals, it’s important to have a safe place where you can find support for the challenges you experience in your work. It’s also a place where you can provide that support to other animal activists.
The Emotional Support Group for Animal Activists 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 weekly online peaceful half-hour of vegan-oriented meditation and mindful sharing.

We’ll meditate together in silence for 15 minutes, 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.
https://www.meetup.com/compassionconsortium/
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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.