Stand Up For Compassion

A Free Course and Resource for Navigating Uncertain Times with Jack Kornfield

In a world of rapid change and increasing polarization, discover timeless wisdom to steady your heart, quiet your mind, and respond with courage and compassion.

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Course Overview

ILLUMINATING THE PATH THROUGH TURBULENT TIMES

In this free mini-course, Jack Kornfield shares powerful meditation practices and timeless Buddhist wisdom to help you navigate life’s challenges with grace and inner stability.

“Stand Up for Compassion” offers practical guidance for finding your spiritual rudder during periods of personal and collective uncertainty. Through guided meditations, inspiring stories, and transformative teachings, you’ll discover how to:

    • Quiet your mind and tend to your heart when the world feels chaotic
    • Transform anxiety and fear into imagination and hope
    • Remember your fundamental dignity and nobility in difficult moments
    • Stand up for your values with courage and compassion
    • Become a “makeweight” that tips the scales toward healing

Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed by political division, climate change, social injustice, or personal challenges, these teachings provide a pathway to becoming a steady, compassionate presence in a world that desperately needs it. Join Jack Kornfield, one of the West’s most beloved meditation teachers, as he helps you remember that even in the darkest times, you can become a beacon of loving awareness.

What You Will Learn?

TRANSFORMATIVE WISDOM FOR CHALLENGING TIMES

Through this mini-course, you'll develop practical skills and insights to:

  • Find inner stability even when external circumstances feel chaotic
  • Practice mindful loving awareness that's big enough to hold it all — joy, sorrow, gain, loss
  • Understand the Buddhist wisdom of uncertainty, suffering, and impermanence and how these lead to freedom
  • Connect with your deepest values and navigate difficult conversations with wisdom
  • Transform anxiety in your body and mind through powerful meditation techniques
  • Cultivate trust in the "bigger picture" during times of rapid change
  • Become a beacon of compassion in your community
  • Experience the freedom that comes from accepting things as they are
  • Apply ancient teachings to modern challenges like climate change, political division, and technological disruption

 

Each lesson builds upon timeless Buddhist principles while offering immediate, practical tools you can apply in your daily life. You’ll receive guided meditations, journal prompts, and inspirational stories that help you embody these teachings in a natural, authentic way. By the end of this course, you’ll have a stronger spiritual rudder to navigate life’s challenges and a deeper understanding of how to “stand up for compassion” in ways that create meaningful change.

Course Syllabus

This transformative mini-course is organized into three comprehensive chapters that guide you from inner stability to outer action:

Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1: CHOOSING YOUR OWN SPIRIT

  • Navigate uncertainty, suffering, and change with mindful loving presence.
  • Guided meditation: Taking your noble seat amidst life's worldly winds
  • How mindful loving awareness is big enough to hold it all
  • The wisdom of uncertainty, suffering, and impermanence
  • Choosing your own spirit in every moment
  • Finding freedom from fear by turning toward difficulty
  • The transformative power of community
  • Guided meditation: Becoming the great tree of compassion
Chapter 2

A SPIRITUAL RUDDER FOR NAVIGATING DIFFICULT TIMES

  • Develop practical tools for staying centered when the world feels chaotic.
  • Guided meditation: Opening the great heart of compassion
  • Navigating samsara and the nature of uncertainty
  • Creating a wise society based on mutual care
  • Standing up for compassion
  • Living as a modern Bodhisattva with beautiful purpose
  • Guided meditation: Navigating turbulent times with mindful loving kindness
Chapter 3

YOU ARE THE IMAGINAL CELLS OF THE BUTTERFLY

  • Discover your role in awakening humanity during the Great Turning.
  • Mindful instructions for walking meditation
  • The birth process of the Great Turning
  • Transforming from caterpillar to butterfly
  • Overcoming anger, fear, and frustration
  • Creating a wise society through each of our hearts
  • Guided meditation: Uncovering freedom as your birthright
Complete Syllabus
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What Makes This Course Unique?

A Rare Teaching From a Meditation Master

Jack Kornfield distills 50+ years of wisdom as a Buddhist monk, psychologist, and beloved meditation teacher into this essential guidance for turbulent times. Drawing from ancient teachings and modern psychological insights, Jack shares practical compassion practices rarely found outside intensive retreats.

Wisdom for Navigating Uncertainty

Unlike standard meditation courses focused only on personal calm, this course directly addresses how to maintain an open heart during societal upheaval. Jack offers time-tested Buddhist approaches to transforming fear, anger, and anxiety into compassionate action and steady presence.

Creating Inner Stability in Chaotic Times

"When even one person remains centered and calm, it shows the way for everyone to survive." These teachings develop your capacity to be that person—the one who maintains perspective, speaks truth with kindness, and acts from wisdom when circumstances feel overwhelming.

Designed for Everyday Practice

Each meditation and reflection is designed for immediate application in daily life. Whether you're navigating difficult conversations, consuming news, or deciding how to respond to injustice, these practices provide a reliable spiritual rudder through life's storms.

A Path to Meaningful Action

Gain practical guidance on how to stand up for your values without contributing to polarization. Jack shows how compassionate presence becomes the foundation for effective action that addresses suffering rather than perpetuating it.

Who Is It For?

Those Feeling Overwhelmed by World Events

If you find yourself anxious about political division, climate change, social injustice, or the rapid pace of technological change, these teachings offer a spiritual anchor during turbulent times.

Compassionate Activists Seeking Balance

For those working to make a difference but struggling with burnout, overwhelm, or discouragement, Jack provides practices to sustain your efforts with wisdom and an open heart.

Spiritual Seekers Looking for Practical Application

If you're drawn to meditation and mindfulness but wonder how to apply these practices to real-world challenges, this course bridges contemplative wisdom with everyday action.

People Navigating Personal Life Transitions

Whether facing health challenges, relationship changes, career shifts, or other personal upheavals, these teachings help you find stability amidst change.

Community Leaders and Bridge Builders

For those seeking to create connection across differences and foster understanding in divided communities, Jack offers tools for compassionate communication and presence.

Anyone Wanting to Cultivate Inner Strength

If you simply wish to develop greater resilience, kindness, and clarity in an uncertain world, these timeless teachings will help you access your natural capacity for steady, compassionate presence.

Jack Kornfield
YOUR GUIDE THROUGH UNCERTAIN TIMES

Jack Kornfield is one of the most influential meditation teachers in the West, helping to bring mindfulness practices and Buddhist wisdom to contemporary life for over 50 years.

After training as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India in the 1960s, Jack returned to the United States to make ancient teachings accessible to modern audiences. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and has taught meditation worldwide, co-founding the Insight Meditation Society and the Spirit Rock Center.

Jack’s teachings blend psychological insight with spiritual practice, offering a compassionate approach to personal transformation that’s both profound and practical. His warmth, humor, and storytelling ability make complex wisdom accessible to everyone, regardless of their background.

As the author of numerous bestselling books including “A Path with Heart,” “After the Ecstasy, the Laundry,” and “No Time Like the Present,” Jack has helped millions of people navigate life’s challenges with greater wisdom and compassion.

In this mini-course, Jack shares essential teachings he’s developed during five decades of practice, teaching, and helping individuals through personal and societal upheaval. His gentle guidance provides a much-needed spiritual rudder for navigating our rapidly changing world.

Why Take This Course?

BECOME A FORCE FOR COMPASSION IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

The world needs your steady presence, open heart, and compassionate action now more than ever.

In these rapidly changing times, you have a choice: to be swept away by fear and division, or to stand firmly as a beacon of mindful loving awareness.

As Jack teaches, “You get to choose your spirit no matter what happens—what greater gift could there be?”

This free mini-course offers the wisdom, practices, and community support to help you navigate uncertainty with grace and courage. Whether you’re seeking personal stability or ways to create positive change in the world, “Stand Up for Compassion” provides a pathway forward.

Remember: “When the crowded refugee boats met with storms or pirates, if everyone panicked, all would be lost. But if even one person remained calm and centered, it was enough. They showed the way for everyone to survive.” —Thich Nhat Hanh

Will you be that person? Will you stand up for compassion?

Bring the light of compassion to your life and our world today

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  • 3 comprehensive modules of transformative wisdom
  • 6 guided meditations for cultivating compassion
  • Practical journal prompts for deepening your practice
  • Lifetime access to all course materials
  • Join a community of compassionate practitioners
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