Interfaith. Interspiritual. Interspecies.
Join us for our August Sunday Service on August 17, 2025 at 4:00 pm ET with our Special Spiritual Guest, Altamush Saeed
Altamush Saeed is a BIPOC award-winning Pakistani interspecies justice lawyer, activist, philanthropist, teacher, and filmmaker. He holds four advanced law degrees, including an Animal Law LLM and Environmental Law LLM from Lewis & Clark Law School, where he was the first Pakistani recipient of the Brooks Institute Scholarship and an Environmental Law LLM Ambassador Scholar. He also earned a Human Rights LLM from the University of Michigan as a Comparative and International Law Scholar and Myint Zan LLM Prize winner, along with a BA-LLB from LUMS.
Altamush lectures on Animal, Environmental, and Animals in Disasters Law at the University of Central Punjab and NUST Law School, teaching Pakistan’s first Animal Law and Environmental law courses.
He is the Founding Managing Partner at Environmental and Animal Rights Consultants and Co-Founder of Charity Doings Foundation. He is the Founder and Lead of Pakistan’s first International Animal and Environmental Rights Conference and the founder and chair of Pakistan's 1st Notified Animal Law Committee at the Lahore High Court Bar Association of Pakistan.
Recognized globally, he has received the LUMS Vice Chancellor Alumni Achievement Award, the Humane Society’s DEI Trailblazer Award, and the inaugural DEI Trailblazer Spark Award and the HBL PSL Hamaray Heroes Award 2025.
about us
The Compassion Consortium is a non-sectarian center. We offer well-being resources, spiritual guidance, support, and community fellowship to Vegans, Vegetarians, animal rights activists, animal lovers, and all humans who care about and advocate for animals and the planet.
We recognize that many people do not see their deeply rooted compassion for all creatures reflected in houses of worship or spiritual centers; some people have even left faith traditions after seeing animals excluded from the level of mercy they deserve; in many cases, they're even denied the possession of a soul.
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The Compassion Consortium is here to supplement this "missing piece" for persons who are part of another religious or spiritual community and those who are not affiliated ("nones") or identify as secular.
Channel your passion for animals and the planet into a caring and supportive vocation
Animal chaplains provide support for both animals and humans by using ritual, ceremony, and the tools of spiritual companionship. Our training program helps you fulfill your heart’s call to honor and celebrate the lives of all species, including how to companion them through joys and challenges.
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Our program is non-denominational and does not require students to have a specific religious or spiritual outlook. It will, though, prepare you to work with a diverse set of belief systems, so that you can support people regardless of their own outlook.
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Program is offered annually. Our next cohort begins classes in September! Contact us with any questions or schedule a consult with our program director by clicking below.
Animal Companion Loss (Pet) Grief Support Group
What This Is:
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.
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You are welcome 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 arrive within 5 minutes of the start time so as not to interrupt vulnerable sharing. After 6:35pm ET, the virtual doors will be closed and no new attendees will be admitted.
Where:
This group will start at 6:30 PM EST and run to 7:30 PM EST on Zoom.
Animal Activist Online Support Group
Join the Animal Activist Online Support group to discuss burnout, self-care, compassion fatigue, infighting, anger, grief, depression, communicating with non-activists, and other activist concerns. Participate in this free, confidential support group by phone, smart phone, or computer on the 4th Thursday Every Month,
8 - 9 p.m. Eastern Time.
Facilitated by Animal Chaplain Lisa Levinson and hosted by In Defense of Animals.
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Register for free monthly Animal Activist Online Support Groups: www.idausa.org/supportgroups
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, 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 for 45 minutes every first and third Monday of each month.
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