This document discusses the need for greater compassion in society. It notes that a lack of compassion can lead to issues like poverty, abuse, neglect, and violence. The document argues that cultivating compassion on an individual and community level through empathy, gratitude, and generosity can help create social change. It suggests that women may have a greater innate proclivity toward compassion compared to men. The document proposes that theater and creative community programs can help develop empathy and lead a compassion revolution by bringing people together and allowing self-expression. It provides examples of potential programs like school partnerships, summer camps, and afterschool clubs to build connections across communities and spread compassion.

4.  Bullying, relational aggression, other
incidents of power imbalance and
misuse
 Paralyzing perfectionism and a fear of
making mistakes
 Isolation from their feelings & extreme
self-focus
 Intolerance and misunderstanding others
from different cultures and communities
 A serious compassion deficit

5. “The most important
problem our world
faces is a lack of
compassion.
Compassion is a
prerequisite for building
a happy individual, a
happy society.“
- Dalai Lama

6. “The seeds for
compassion were
sown by my
mother.”
-Dalai Lama

7. Compassion Deficit Compassion We must practice
= Poverty, Abuse, Revolution = compassion
Neglect, Empathy, Gratitude, intentionally at an
Entitlement, Generosity, Honor, individual &
Violence, etc. Peace community level
Theater as Creative
Women = Greater Intentional
Community =
proclivities towards Community =
Multidisciplinary,
Compassion Creative Exploration
Interactive
Women in Theater
Will Lead the
Compassion
Revolution

8. “The evidence for a female advantage in
empathizing comes from many different
areas. For example, given a free choice
of which toys to play with, more girls than
boys will play with dolls, enacting social
and emotional themes….if you leave out
those big plastic cars that children can
ride on, what you see is that more little
boys play the „ramming‟ game. They
deliberately drive the vehicle into another
child. The little girls ride around more
carefully, avoiding the other children
more often. This suggests the girls are
being more sensitive to others.”
- Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge
University, “The Essential Difference: The
Male & Female Brain”

9. “Here's where women differ from
men. If the other person is upset, or
the emotions are disturbing, women's
brains tend to stay with those feelings.
But men's brains do something else:
they sense the feelings for a moment,
then tune out of the emotions and
switch to other brain areas that try to
solve the problem that's creating the
disturbance. Thus women's complaint
that men are tuned out emotionally,
and men's that women are too
emotional - it's a brain difference.
Neither is better - both have
advantages.”
- Daniel Goleman, author of
“Emotional Intelligence” and “The
Brain and Emotional Intelligence”

10. “Through spontaneity we are re-
formed into ourselves. It creates an
explosion that for the moment frees us
from handed-down frames of
reference, memory choked with old
facts and information and undigested
theories and techniques of other
people's findings. Spontaneity is the
moment of personal freedom when
we are faced with reality, and see it,
explore it and act accordingly. In this
reality the bits and pieces of ourselves
function as an organic whole. It is the
time of discovery, of experiencing, of
creative expression.”
– Viola Spolin, innovator, teacher,
director & author of “Improvisation for
the Theater”

11. “Theatre is a form of
knowledge; it should and
can also be a means of
transforming society.
Theatre can help us build
our future, rather than
just waiting for it.”
– Augusto Boal,
innovator, politician,
director & founder of
Theatre of the Oppressed

12. Be Anyone You Want to NOTICE Motivated, Passionate
Make a Play
Change the World
Change Yourself
Be •Get Quiet & Present & Empathetic Leaders
•Active Listening, Active
Sharing
Take in the “good stuff” Compassion in Action
•Identify & Accept Your
Feelings (The Ones that Feel
Good & The Ones that Don’t)
Share Your Creative Peaceful Places &
Ideas •Say Yes to Yourself Spaces
CONNECT
Put Your Ideas Together •Collaboration The Contagion of
•Peaceful Conflict Resolution Happiness
•Looking Out & Standing Up
Practice For Each Other
•Contributing your Personal ,
Positive Power
Perform for Others
CELEBRATE
•Share Your Work with Others
and Be Witnessed
•Reflect on your Work
•Share your Feedback with
Others
•Set New Goals and Intentions

13. School-Based
Partnerships
Summer Camps
Regional
Retreats
Afterschool Clubs
Books &
Products
Building Connections Within & Across
Communities

14. Contact Lynn Johnson at:
510.654.7166 or
lynn@glitterandrazz.com
And visit
www.glitterandrazz.com/go-
girls