{"product_id":"openhearted-practices-to-grow-kindness-live-online-24-october-2026","title":"\"Openhearted - Practices to Grow Kindness\" Workshop - Live-Online - 24 October 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoin Kate to explore four qualities of heart that sit at the centre of many contemplative traditions – warmth, compassion, shared joy, and equanimity. These are capacities we already have, and this workshop is a chance to practise growing them on purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe'll start with the first and most foundational of the four: a warm, friendly attitude that wishes well-being on everyone it meets, including ourselves. From there we'll look at how the other three – compassion, sympathetic joy (the capacity to feel glad for someone else's good fortune), and equanimity (a steady, unshaken presence) – grow out of that same warmth, almost like branches from one root. Cultivate one, and you find you've begun cultivating them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sessions will move through sitting, walking, and gentle movement practice, using simple phrases as an anchor for attention rather than a script to recite. Alongside the practice, there'll be time for discussion – how these four qualities interrelate and what it might mean to hold them not as ideals but as something like strengthening a muscle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a good fit for anyone curious to go a little deeper into the wisdom traditions that informs MBSR, and into the psychology underneath it.\u0026amp;nbsp; No prior experience is needed - just a willingness to explore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDo I need previous meditation experience?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eNo. This is a great and easy introduction to mindfulness meditation principles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSession recording (one-month access)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAccess to the full video recording of the session, available for one month.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OpenGround","offers":[{"title":"Standard","offer_id":50547124633855,"sku":"STA-RAT","price":49.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Scholarship","offer_id":50547124666623,"sku":"SCH-RAT","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0791\/1987\/6351\/files\/Nature_flowers_pink_macro_2560x1600_4edf1685-0fa3-4ee3-8e24-5dd46ad1667b.jpg?v=1790554610","url":"https:\/\/openground.com.au\/products\/openhearted-practices-to-grow-kindness-live-online-24-october-2026","provider":"OpenGround","version":"1.0","type":"link"}