Session 16 - 17 - Truth with compassion, compassion through truth final

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OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY

Valenzuela City • Quezon City • Antipolo City • Cabanatuan • Pampanga Veritas et Misericordia

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Session 16 & 17: Truth with compassion, compassion through truth.

INTRODUCTION

Bringing truth together with compassion helps people to do all things. Compassion encourages humans to ask ‘what might be going on for this person that they are behaving like this?’, starting from the assumption that it makes sense rather than seeing them just from the self-centered point of view of our own desires and how they are blocking these. Compassion to ourselves enables us to look honestly at what we bring to the situation, without being overwhelmed by guilt and shame when we realize that we are also being imperfect people and contributing to conflict, confusion and pain. Finally, compassion opens us up to other aspects of the person – particularly the ones that are impressive – when our attention is in danger of being fixed on

‘negative aspects’. It allows us to see that what we are finding difficult may well be inextricably connected to things that we find valuable about this person (stubbornness and being committed, for example, or flakiness and being easygoing).

Truth plus compassion helps people to see more clearly – indeed honestly – the vulnerability which we all share which underlies much of our behavior. Then, instead of moments of conflict making us feel disconnected, isolated and alienated, they have the potential to connect us more fundamentally, as we recognize the familiar fears and dreads, hopes and desires, that drives the very behaviors that we are finding so difficult. But we need at least a little kindness to cut through the sense that we are up against a bad, blameworthy, inexplicable individual who is just getting in our way.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: At the end of this module, students are expected to:

1. Differentiate truth and compassion 2. Apply truth and compassion 3. Demonstrate truth with compassion

MODULE LESSON

In this session, the culmination of what is truth and compassion learned throughout the semester will be presented as a group poster work.

MODULE ACTIVITY

A. POSTER MAKING. Express your understanding about “Truth” and “Compassion” using textual and graphic elements.

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OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY

Valenzuela City • Quezon City • Antipolo City • Cabanatuan • Pampanga Veritas et Misericordia

B. BIG GROUP ACTIVITY. Video Presentation and Analysis.

Write a short analysis of the video presented. Discuss the themes reflected on the video and write your reflection about it.

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C. ROLE-PLAYING. In your group, think and portray a specific scenario in which you can manifest truth and compassion for yourself, for others, and for the country at large.

CLOSURE

Journal Writing: What do you think are the challenges in your search for truth and in showing compassion to others?

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REFERENCES

Cohn-Vargas, B. (2016). How to Develop the 3 Most Common Types of compassion. Sixty and Me.

Mindset

Neff, K. & Dahm, K., (2015). Self-Compassion: What it is, What it does, and how it Relate to Mindfulness.

Mindfulness and Self-Regulation. New York Springer

Using What Has Been Learned to Deal with Future Moods.Retrieved from

http://www.breathingspacelondon.org.uk/resources-for-teachers/?cmd=download- file&vpath=/kbt/participant-course-notes/&vfile=all-kbt-handouts-for-week-7.pdf