Compassionate Leadership Workshop: Explore + Heal (North Beach)
FabMab (Mabuhay Gardens) | 435 Broadway
Event Details
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March 8th- 4:30pm- 6:30pm Post-Solarpunkification Workshop on Compassion: What it is/not, how it heals, from the individual, work, to global facilitated by Daniel Martin
Join us for a two-hour workshop after Solarpunkification 2026 concludes: pm on 6 March.
We’ll establish a definition of this hot topic that has been studied and deployed for 1,000s of years, then explore through a science-based talk sprinkled with a host of experiences to highlight compassion in a tangible way. While some might equate compassion with weakness, we’ll find it takes tremendous strength and fortitude to offer others and ourselves compassion, as well as having a willingness to accept compassion from others. We’ll also find that when the directions of compassion are being extended in each direction, ensuring safe equilibrium.
The workshop is based on research (Dan’s and others), as well as the complex reality of being compassionate, and individual differences which might force our values to the side, foster authoritarian leaders and followers, and facilitate inequality. So, we’ll take a look at our own values and look at individual differences that might cause havoc politically, in organizations and within hierarchies. Importantly we’ll highlight the impact compassion can have in leading teams and organizations.
Why this matters this moment and tomorrow
The pressures of today weigh on us all, cross generationally, with polarization, social comparison, the perceived value of another human being reflecting the tense times we are in. Humans are suffering, with epidemics of violence, fear, loneliness, stress, and depression blooming everywhere. We’re often told to look inside, when cognitive biases can make an introspective mirror warped. We’ll appreciate our social nature and bring it right upfront in our exercises, research and consider the varieties of evoking it, in 3 directions while appreciating the complex emotional systems we’ve inherited.
How the workshop works
Participants will be guided through compassion from the micro to meso, then macro, always considering positive outcomes, potential barriers to using compassion, along with the aforementioned brief exercises, all sprinkled with illustrative quotes through the ages
You will leave with:
- A deeper knowledge of an oftentimes neglected human behavior – Compassion
- A deeper understanding of the impact of individual differences that might sideline compassion, how to be aware of them,
- Several examples and exercises of things you can do to be aware, feel and act when needed.
A bonus 3 week sample to keep you measurably on your compassion game, part of a broader range of tools that statistically significantly increase compassion for self, other, and willingness to receive it, leadership, service orientations, bravery, emotional intelligence while diminishing stress, anxiety and depression, racist and sexist proclivities and many well-being and occupational competencies as well.
About Daniel E. Martin, Ph.D.
Dr. Daniel E. Martin (Dan) is an Associate Professor of Management at California State University, East Bay, and Director of Compassion Education at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University (currently a Consulting scientist), a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society at UC Berkeley, a Research Fellow for the U.S. Army Research Institute as well as a Personnel Research Psychologist for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, he has worked with private, public and non-profit organizations on pre-employment selection, training, and organizational assessment. He has held international appointments at Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Villahermosa, Mexico and The D’Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), Rio De Janiero, Brazil and is a board member of the IBRACE, the Institute for Brain Research Altruism Compassion and Education.
Education & Qualifications:
Dan holds a Ph.D. in Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Howard University, Washington, D.C., and a BS in Clinical Psychology from San Francisco State, California.
Relevant Experience:
Dan’s research interests include: compassion, social capital, ethical behavior, racism and prejudice, human resources assessment, religiosity, human hierarchy, spirituality and humor. Dan has held TEDxHayward at CSUEB highlighting quantitative efforts in Peace Innovation twice.
Dan is published in a range of journals including Journal of Business Ethics, Personnel Review, Human Organization, Ethics and Behavior, Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science, the Journal of Applied Psychology amongst others. His current research streams investigate the impact of individual differences and ideology on social corporate responsibility and human resources decision making. Other streams involve the impact of ideology on compassion and psychological well-being. His current applied work on the use of untapped social capital to ameliorate social problems serve as a research, skills development and assessment platform. Dan has scaling interventions and measurable impact in competence and well-being across a wide array of social, individual needs (Business, Leadership, Psychedelics, SUD and more) and counties.
This event is happening after the Solarpunkification festival Solarpunkification 2026 Mabuhay Gardens- Luma: https://luma.com/8u07vkhv
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: $40
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