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Namaste, welcome, friends.

Today I want to share a conversation. I had recently with Paul Gilbert.

Many of you might know if he's a psychology professor and researcher and founder of the

compassion-focused therapy. So Paul has spent decades exploring how our brains are wired for threat

and how we can intentionally cultivate compassion to regulate fear and heal shame and bring

care into our relationships in our world.

And his work has been foundational in helping us understand

that first compassion is trainable.

We can train it.

We can become more compassionate.

And it's a profound and necessary source

of resilience and courage for our times. So this conversation was moderated by

Rick Hansen, dear friend, many of you know of him. His work on resilience and positive

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