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
Spaces For Listening

With Amy Dunmall & Catherine Hughes

Tuesday 12th October
10am-5pm

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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!

Tuesday 12th October
7.30pm

Do Good Lives Have To Cost The Earth?

Online Webinar With The Network of Wellbeing &
The Eden Communities Project
Introducing Secular Mindfulness

Online Webinar With Leeds Mindfulness, Wellbeing & Spirituality Centre

Wednesday 13th October

Leeds Kindness Trail

Discover kind spaces, places & secret art around the city centre.
#SpacesForListening (SfL)

With Amy Dunmall and Zoe Nicholls & 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
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

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

Cultivating Kindness Through Coaching

With Anna Whitehead

#SpacesForListening (SfL)

With Brigid Russell and Charlie Jones

Leeds Climate Assembly – Meet The Movement

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

Spanish Climate Marchers Light Night Procession.


Healthy Relationships

With Behind Closed Doors

Mindfulness for Health with Leeds Mindfulness Cooperative

At Kirkstall Abbey Visitor Centre

Saturday 16th October


Love to learn to Paddle

Paddle Sport Open Day

Mental Health Mates Leeds

A ‘Walk& Talk’ around Roundhay Park

Spanish Climate Marchers @ The Sikh Temple

Details of confirmed events are available on the Events page