{"id":3042,"date":"2024-11-27T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucsia.org\/?post_type=event&p=3042"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:57:09","slug":"compassion-in-society-today","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.ucsia.org\/en\/events\/compassion-in-society-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity in Compassionate Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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This talk is a part of the series ‘Compassion in Context’, a project in collaboration with Museum MAS.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Power of Compassion in Solidarity: Social and Societal Vistas<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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This lecture focuses on the multifaceted nature of compassion, examining it both through the lens of human-to-human interactions and from a broader societal perspective. Key questions include: How does compassion transform groups and organizations? What role does it play in fostering psychological safety? And, more societally: How is compassion connected to wider solidarity, and what contributions can it make toward building safe societies? The lecture will also explore the role of religious communities and spaces in promoting, as well as threatening, compassion.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Anne Birgitta Pessi<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Anne Birgitta Pessi is a Professor of Church and Social Studies, at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology since 2012. She is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters since 2012. Pessi is a true believer and explorer of altruism and compassion.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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She holds the title of \u2018Docent\u2019 both in Theology, in Church and Social Studies (University of Helsinki) and in empirical and welfare sociology (University of Eastern Finland).<\/p>

Pessi\u2019s research interests cover particularly compassion, altruism, meaningfulness, volunteering, \u00a0civil society, togetherness, church social work and experiences of a good life, as well as individualized religiosity and experiences of the sacred. Her publications include, for instance, over 40 referee journal articles, and over 200 titles. Currently Pessi works, together with her two research teams, on analysis of the power of compassion in corporate business and the public sector as well as on content and reader experiences of self-help literature and the construction of self in this genre.<\/p>

Pessi directed a vast multidiciplinary project called \u2018CoPassion<\/a>, The Revolutionary Power of Compass\u2019, from 2015 to 2017. The project involved 11 researchers and was funded by more than 10 companies. She also directed an Academy of Finland funded project\u00a0\u2018CoCare<\/a>, Cooperation in Care \u2013 meaning systems, chances, and conflicts\u2019, in 2014-2018.\u00a0In 2014 she co-edited the publication \u2018Solidarity. Theory and Practice<\/a>\u2019. Previously she directed the research projects \u2018RiTS Religion in Transforming Solidarity\u2019, in 2008-201), which led to the publication \u2018Christianity and the Roots of\u00a0 Morality\u2019<\/a>. She has also worked as a Senior Research Member on the project \u2018Church in Today\u00b4s European Society\u2019<\/a>, 2011-2015 and as a member of the executive management team of an Argumenta project \u2018Human Mortality\u2019, 2011-2014, funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. Pessi had already been working on various international research projects before, such as the EU-funded project \u201cWelfare and Values in Europe\u201d (2006-2009).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    Optional visit the expo 'COMPASSION'<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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    Lecture by Anne Birgitta Pessi (Professor of Church and Social Studies, University of Helsinki) <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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    Sociologist and theologian Anne Birgitta Pessi (University of Helsinki) and Emmanuel Van Lierde (Curando) will discuss compassion in building communities.<\/p>\n

    How does compassion transform groups and organizations? What role does it play in fostering psychological safety? How is it connected to wider solidarity? What contributions can it make toward building safe societies?<\/p>\n

    This talk is a part of the series ‘Compassion in Context’, a project in collaboration with Museum MAS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2911,"template":"","topic":[32],"class_list":["post-3042","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic-europe-and-solidarity"],"yoast_head":"\nSolidarity in Compassionate Communities - UCSIA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What is the role and impact of compassion in building communities? 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