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The Compassion Consortium sponsors or suggests a book, film or compassionate practice for you to consider that relates to our mission. Please join us to discuss and exchange thoughts regarding the topic being explored and its meaning to you. When possible, we will be joined by the book’s author, the film maker, or someone who is an expert in the compassionate practice being discussed.

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Join us for our July Sunday Service on July 20, 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.

Discussion Circle for Animal Activists & Caregivers

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Animal Chaplain Alaina Sigler is offering a discussion circle for individuals involved with animal advocacy and animal rescue to share and support each other with the emotional challenges that can come with advocacy and rescue. She offers a space where all emotions and experiences can be held with compassion. It alleviates a sense of isolation, which, as activists, we can often feel. Share whatever feels right in the moment, and it's completely okay if you choose not to share.

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The Discussion Circle for Animal Activists & Caregivers meets the second Monday of every month at 5:00 PM Pacific / 6:00 PM Mountain / 7 PM Central / 8 PM Eastern

The Compassion Consortium, in conjunction with Vegan Meditation, is offering a bi-weekly online peaceful half-hour of vegan-oriented meditation and mindful sharing.

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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.​

Animal Companion Loss Grief Support Group

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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.


I welcome you 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 join a few minutes early to ensure no technical issues.
 

YOU MAY BRING

  1. A picture that you may want to share of your beloved companion animal

  2. Anything that is weighing on your heart in relationship to your loss

  3. A journal and a pen to jot down any insights or awarenesses

  4. Anything else to create a cozy atmosphere! Whether it's a warm drink, a stuffed animal, blankets, or comforting scents.​


This group will start at 6:30 PM EST and run to 7:30 PM EST on Zoom.

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