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Oct 25, 2019
4 min

We are all in this together

‘More than anything when I was going through cancer treatment, I wanted to see my oncologist’s heart.'

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Oct 21, 2019
3 min

1000% Excited

An article by Sue Robins, Canadian Patient Storyteller and Author of Bird's Eye View: Stories from a life lived in health care.

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Mar 26, 2019
5 min

We are only (and not only) human, after all

The importance of a humanistic approach to the way we care and are cared for. By Amy Maddison I still remember back in 2014, reading abou...

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Jan 4, 2019
3 min

The efficiency of kindness

by Guest Contributor Monday mornings of my surgical rotation this year made me a little apprehensive. Each week we were assigned to a new...

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Nov 22, 2018
2 min

Gathering of Kindness, November 13 2018

There has been significant focus on the mental health and wellbeing of doctors in both mainstream media as well as in medical journals an...

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Nov 6, 2018
6 min

'Being Sam': On kindness demonstrated and kindness welcomed.

This post is written by Morag Zwartz- a Melbourne Journalist and writer. She recently published 'Being Sam' which movingly details her ex...

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Sep 17, 2018
3 min

Little by little....The stars began to burn

Today my therapist fired me. By Sue Robins. Sue Robins is a New York Times published writer, health conference speaker and mother of thre...

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Jun 28, 2018
6 min

Hardwired to be kind

Written by Dr Brian Goldman. Dr Goldman is an emergency physician in Toronto, Canada. He is also a writer who blogs at doctorbriangoldman...

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May 10, 2018
5 min

A Letter to My Daughter

How our rigid rules can disconnect us from our souls' truth and the ones we love the most… by Karina Meacham When rules, guidelines, fram...

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Dec 22, 2017
4 min

“What Matters” - Gathering of Kindness poem by Michelle Phillips. November 3, 2017

What Matters? in life, in health in death, in wealth? the breadth of our experiences is tremendous and we do well to remember this answer...

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Dec 10, 2017
2 min

“We are not in an era of change, we are in a change of era”

By Lucy Mayes I know a little bit about what it feels like to bring an audacious idea into action in the world. This made it all the mo...

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Nov 24, 2017
1 min

A tool for 'kindfulness'

By Christine Ireland, teacher. The Kindness sessions I went to on November 3, 2017, were immediately applicable to not only my line of wo...

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Nov 7, 2017
5 min

Burnout Culture and Disconnected Medicine

By Dr Nathalie Martinek Reports to date show that health and caring professionals across every specialty experience high rates of wor...

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Nov 3, 2017
4 min

Celebrate Kindness

Hi, my name is Tanya Hendry and I work as a Manager at EACH, a social and community health service. I have spent most of my career workin...

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Nov 1, 2017
3 min

Kindness practice

Ideas to kickstart your individual kindness practices at work. By Liz Ramsay No one wants to live with strain and unpleasantness in thei...

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Nov 1, 2017
3 min

Simple steps to kindness

By Liz Ramsay 4 simple steps to personal kindness practice in the workplace It is a truth universally acknowledged that workplace ...

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Oct 31, 2017
3 min

A place for kindness

A place for kindness in a change-driven health care sector. Amy Maddison, String Words. There have been countless changes in our health...

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Oct 30, 2017
3 min

An organisation that fosters kindness.

Monash Health is one of the major partners supporting the Gathering of Kindness this week. As the largest health service in Victoria, Mon...

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Oct 29, 2017
3 min

'Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.'

(Mother Theresa) On the first day of Kindness Week we would like to introduce Rosie Keely who has written a beautiful reflection on the ...

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Oct 27, 2017
5 min

Karin Morrison on 'Unlimited Kindness'

The Gathering of Kindness is proud to introduce Karin Morrison. Karin is a renowned educator and author, who will be facilitating our di...

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