Institute for Compassionate Community

08/01/2026

06/15/2026

Corrected email address: [email protected]

02/28/2026

Keen on promoting workshops and trainings, ethics and leadership with counselors, therapists and community members, to cross pollinate the various disciplines and skill sets, to break down barriers that silo us.

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03/14/2024

One of the challenges of being a long lived human being is reconciling the linear nature of our life span with the recurring cyclical nature of the seasons. Another Spring is underway, buds on trees preparing the leaf out, the Winter receding with some cold snaps making a last stand. Hard as the cold may be, the heat is more demanding.

01/08/2022

Maria Holand Tøsse surprised everyone and especially her beloved one Ronny Eidsvik, when she went down the aisle singing in Alesund Church. Not to talk about her dad Charles Tøsse that topped it all with his singing to the groom. It was all accompanied by great singers and musicians. https://en.wi...

05/28/2021

Such is the case of pseudo science, create a diagnosis to label a normal impulse as an illness, such is the case with racist propaganda, such is the case with the wild, far fetched conspiracy theories unleashed by malevolent actors.

Drapetomania was a conjectural mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity.[1]:41 Contemporarily reprinted in the South, Cartwright's article was widely mocked and satirized in the northern United States. The....

01/28/2021

A six hour jam packed CEU training/workshop for social workers, counselors and mental health clinicians.

05/09/2020

The Institute for Compassionate Community is moving into a new direction with the inclusion of a variety of different workshops with a focus on leadership for young people. The three and six hour workshops, using experiential and critical thinking methods will address decision making, creativity and team building.