Sunday 10th October
Festival Launch 7pm

Transforming Society through Compassion

Keynote address by special guest

Thupten Jinpa

Dalai Lama’s Chief English Translator.

In Association With

Introduced by Shaid Mahmood of Leeds City Council

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Also happening on our Festival Launch Day!

Sharing our Lockdown Walks

A 6 mile walk exploring Guisley.
Hepworth Band conducted by Frank Renton

Aireborough Rotary Club Annual Charity Brass Band concert returns featuring
The Amercian Songbook

Monday 11th October

Compassion Circle

With Andy Bradley
Compassion Training – A Key to Greater Wellbeing

With David Midgley
What Can Science Tell Us About Kindness?

With Gloria Kimberley
Climate Action Leeds Launch

Find out what taking action on the climate emergency really means With Climate Action Leeds
Spaces For Listening

With Amy Dunmall & Catherine Hughes
Zest Health for Life

Running Monday, Tuesday & Thursday @ The Old Fire Station
Kindness in the Cupboard

Virtual Workshop Delivered by JKChangeWork
Meet Incredible Edible!

Join the fantastic team at Incredible Edible for two videos about growing food

Tuesday 12th October
10am-5pm

SEE THE LINE UP!

The Kindness Exchange day at Leeds Civic Hall

Leading practitioners of Kindness, Compassion & Wellbeing will share their
perspectives and experience.

Browse Market Stalls from different Local Organisations committed to a #KinderLeeds!

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Tuesday 12th October

Do Good Lives Have To Cost The Earth?

Online Webinar With The Network of Wellbeing &
The Eden Communities Project
Jewish spirituality, meditation and mindfulness


At Kirkstall Abbey Visitor Centre
Introducing Secular Mindfulness

Online Webinar With Leeds Mindfulness, Wellbeing & Spirituality Centre
Zest Health for Life

Running Monday, Tuesday & Thursday @ The Old Fire Station

Wednesday 13th October

Leeds Kindness Trail

Discover kind spaces, places & secret art around the city centre.

#SpacesForListening (SfL)

With Amy Dunmall and Zoe Nicholls

#SpacesForListening (SfL)

With Brigid Russell and Charlie Jones
The Death Café Online

With Susan Barsky Reid
Leeds Bereavement Forum
Self Nurturing

Online Webinar With Leeds Mindfulness, Wellbeing & Spirituality Centre
Good Grief Guiseley Walk and Coffee

A circular 1 hour walk exploring parts of Guiseley cared for by some of the many Friends groups.
Concord Inter-Faith Peace Service

A programme of readings and music, with candles lit by representatives of all the major faith communities in Leeds
Compassion Education – Creating kinder classrooms

With Jimi Slattery
Compassion Matters

1st Micklefield Beever and Cub Scouts Kindness Session
A ‘Cuppa and a Chat’

Mental Health Mates Leeds
The Universal Message of Guru Nanak Dev Ji

At Kirkstall Abbey Visitor Centre
Mindful Handstitching (Now Full)

At Rivers MEET Cafe
Self-friending Workshop

With Terri (aka. The Wellbeing Witch)
Kind to Self, Kind to Nature

Facebook Live event Delivered by Where the Mind Grows
Wednesday Lunchtime Contemplation Service

A half-hour reflective retreat – perfect for a working lunchtime

Thursday 14th October

The Compassion Salon

With Marilyn Hamilton & Dr Marti
Balaam In Partnership with Compassionate Edinburgh

Death Café at
Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds

With Jane Robinson
Leeds Bereavement Forum

City Retreat Space

Anna Bland

Walk and Talk – Wildflower meadow, Great Preston Green Spaces


Imago Divina

At Kirkstall Abbey Visitor Centre
Good Grief Guiseley, Why? When? What? Where?

Online Webinar with Good Grief Guiseley
Cultivating Kindness Through Coaching

With Anna Whitehead

#SpacesForListening (SfL)

With Brigid Russell and Charlie Jones
Compassion Circle

With Angela Green

Returning to the World: Exploring Resilience

At Kirkstall Abbey Visitor Centre
Leeds Climate Assembly – Meet The Movement

A Webinar with Our Future Leeds
Kinder Eating

A Webinar with Happy Vegan Families
Zest Health for Life

Running Monday, Tuesday & Thursday @ The Old Fire Station

Friday 15th October


Kindness As A Disrupter:
Radical Kindness In Action

With Janice McGuinness
Former Director of the Leeds International Film Festival & CEO of People United

Exploring self-confidence and basic meditation.

Online Webinar With Leeds Mindfulness, Wellbeing & Spirituality Centre

Creative workshops at Guiseley Theatre

Various wonderful local creative people…

Spanish Climate Marchers Light Night Procession.


What does a Healthy Relationship Look Like?

With Behind Closed Doors

Mindfulness for Health with Leeds Mindfulness Cooperative

At Kirkstall Abbey Visitor Centre

Forest Bathing

At Adel Woods with Terri (aka. The Wellbeing Witch)

Saturday 16th October

Love to learn to Paddle (CANCELLED)

Paddle Sport Open Day


Mental Health Mates Leeds

A ‘Walk& Talk’ around Roundhay Park

LUU x Leeds Repair Cafe

Leeds Repair cafe is well established but this is the first collaboration with the University of Leeds
Mindful Handstitching

At Rivers MEET Cafe

Spanish Climate Marchers @ The Sikh Temple


Enhancing Positive Emotion Mini Retreat

Leeds Mindfulness, Wellbeing & Spirituality Centre

Community Kindness Festival

The Villagers Community Club, Bramley

On the trail of the Senses themed walk

The fantastic BalbirSingh Dance Company will be leading themed walks through Gledhow Valley Woods
We don’t like to charge for our events as this can exclude the people who we most want to reach.  Almost all of us are volunteers and we try to keep costs to a minimum but with your support we could do so much more to bring kindness, compassion and wellbeing to our city and beyond.
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