Compassion and its power to transform was the theme of our twelfth annual conference, which took place in Brighton on 15 May 2026.
The Sussex Mindfulness Centre’s conference explored how compassion can create change from the personal to the global.
If you missed the conference and would like a summary do read this short pithy report from Tamsin Bishton. Below you can find the videos of two speeches from keynote speakers, Professor Paul Gilbert, and Alison Evans and Pamela Duckerin.
Professor Paul Gilbert
The nature and process of compassion: From the personal to the global
This talk explored the evolutionary and biopsychosocial approach to compassion and how it can be applied. Paul, the founder of Compassion-Focused Therapy, discussed: the psychology of being sensitive to suffering and working out appropriate behaviours to address it. Compassion has many different textures depending on context and whether it is directed to one’s personal sources of suffering or those created more globally, the latter requiring community and political action.
Alison Evans and Pamela Duckerin
Embodied dialogue as an aid to cultivating mindfulness, compassion and wisdom within relationships
Alison and Pamela, talked about how bringing mindfulness and compassion into relationships can strengthen connections and cultivate a safe, creative space for reflecting on the challenges we face. This keynote highlighted how the mindfulness-based supervision framework that Alison and Pamela developed, can act as a map to bringing this orientation into our dialogues.