Compassionate Conversations
The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute will begin the second year of its “Compassionate Conversations” series, featuring speakers who share a deep and humane commitment to engaging others with passion, compassion, empathy, and respect. A recurrent theme in the 2025-26 series will be “kindness to the stranger.”
The 2025-26 Compassionate Conversations series is as follows:
Upcoming Events
Racial Exhaustion: How to Move Through Racism in the Wake of DEI
Book Launch with Vice Provost Ralina Joseph (UCLA)
December 2, 2025
Watch and Read About Past Events
Compassion in Practice: Providing Water and Shelter in Gaza
A Conversation with Tom Kellner and Seba Abudaza, co-founders of Clean Shelter
November 17, 2025
Dialogue Across Difference Initiative
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