Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics (FACE)

#compassioncon was awesome!!! I had a most awesome time hanging out with some amazing people Like Audrey Galex, Iyabo Onipede, Zeitgeist Atlanta, Compassionate Atlanta Inc. Atlanta Humane Society Refugee Women's Network Georgia Poor People's Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival disABILITY LINK black women and prep and many more! Loved spending the day with Rabbi Mitch Cohen, Rob Johnson from @A Way Home for Everyone and seeing Rabbi Ellen from Interfaith Atlanta

Mark your calendars for November 19 at 1 p.m.! Join us virtually for the 2024 Paul Farmer Symposium on Global Health Equity: "The Audacity of Accompaniment." Inspired by Dr. Paul Farmer's legacy, we’ll explore how true accompaniment fosters solidarity and drives the path to justice. Don’t miss this engaging event, featuring thought-provoking panels and a powerful keynote. Click here to register today: https://lnkd.in/eYzcQX3q

⏰ IT'S TIME! ⏰ Don't miss CompassionCon THIS SUNDAY, it's always a community gathering to remember! Learn more about this FREE & family friendly event here: https://bit.ly/4gD0uHR 💫 Why should you go? 👩🏽🦼🏃🏽♂️ 1. You'll connect with like-minded organizations and people who want more compassion and kindness in the world. 2. You'll have the offering of various food trucks 3. You'll be supporting your local community 4. You'll enjoy some stupendous live music 5. Children will experience a variety of fun activities, including a costume parade We hope you'll join us at the Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics (FACE) and The Task Force for Global Health, Inc. booth for engaging activities and SWAG!

🗓️ ONE WEEK AWAY! ⭐️ In case you missed the memo🤗, our colleagues at Compassionate Atlanta Inc. will be holding their annual CompassionCon on OCTOBER 27TH. Joined by Daniel Tiger🐯 (think Mr. Rogers), this is always a community gathering to remember! Learn more about this FREE event and even sign up to volunteer on their site: https://bit.ly/4gD0uHR This will be a time for you to bond with like minded organizations and people who want more compassion and kindness in the world. Attendees will enjoy food trucks, activities for children, live music, and more. We hope you'll join Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics (FACE) and The Task Force for Global Health, Inc. at our booth too for engaging activities and SWAG!

We're growing! 🥳 Last month we had the joy of entering 3 new members into our team: 👏 Heba Magdy Metwally Tanmayee Kodali Lee Wilkers Please join us as we welcome them into The Task Force for Global Health, Inc.! 🙌 We're honored to have each of their experiences and expertises to lean into, which you can learn more about on our website! https://lnkd.in/e5TkrAZi

Elevating our colleagues work; please take the time to explore this important piece on the power dynamics of global health that have life-altering impacts every day.

Over the last year at The Task Force for Global Health, Inc., we co-created with our staff and piloted an initiative by the Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics (FACE) and CODE (our Council for Opportunity, Diversity, and Equity). This effort - 🌟Compassionate Space🌟 - was formed with the recognition that we all bring sources of strength and suffering to the workplace each day that may need, well, ... [[SPACE]] 😮💨 As on organization, we can choose to make way for this fundamental need. We offered monthly gathering times for open discussion, meditation, reflection, coloring, and everything in-between. 👀 See an example offering attached. 🙋 Led by, for, and with our staff, we held these sessions virtually and in-person to increase safety and access. 💡HERE'S WHAT WE FOUND: While these spaces are deeply valued and needed by many, they don't fit for everyone *and* making time for them remains a major barrier. ❓WE'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU: What have you tried? Have you convened communities of practice that invite people to just "be", or safe and brave spaces? What has worked? What has failed? What have you learned?

Save the date! 📚 The Task Force for Global Health, Inc. is holding a public open house on October 5 as part of the Decatur Book Festival. Join us for an afternoon of learning what it’s like to work in the exciting world of global health. Meet public health experts – many of them your friends and neighbors – to hear about what they do each day, why they chose this work, what they like about it, and other insider insights into the world of global health. Bring your questions! Learn more: https://bit.ly/4dXnnDD

🗓️ ONE MONTH AWAY! ⭐️ On October 27th, our colleagues at Compassionate Atlanta Inc. will be putting on their annual CompassionCon. Joined by Daniel Tiger🐯 for Be My Neighbor Day (remember, Mr. Rogers?!), it'll be a community gathering to remember! Learn more and even sign up to volunteer on their site: https://bit.ly/4gD0uHR This will be a time for you to discover organizations that center compassion in their work, and to bond with like minded people who want more kindness in the world. Attendees will enjoy food trucks, activities for children, live music and more. We hope to see you at our booth with The Task Force for Global Health, Inc. too!  📨 Also in case you missed our latest newsletter OUT TODAY, here it is ➡️ https://lnkd.in/exedtaCG ... or if haven't signed up for it yet (gasp!🫢🤫), now's the time ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eM3-4CbB

Last week, FACE's founder and director, Dr. David Addiss, had the opportunity to speak 📣 at the book launch of close colleague, Dr. Rachel Hall-Clifford. 🎤 A beautiful gathering for an honest, rigorous, and poetic ethnography. 🤩 📖 This book -- a labor of many years of intensive love and dedication -- highlights the UNDERBELLY of global health systems and power structures, 🌏 or the hidden and vulnerable side, as it's name implies. https://lnkd.in/guthr9Sb If you're like us and want to hold the book, maybe even jot down thoughts, know that all proceeds for the purchase of the paperback version will go towards the communities Dr. Hall-Clifford has worked and learned alongside. 📔 It is also available open access online above (Spanish version soon to come too!). 🙏 PLEASE do share this post and information with colleagues and friends. Whether you're just becoming interested in global health, are an early-to-mid professional, are a veteran in the field, or even have distant or no connections to it -- this book piece has lessons and reflections critical for each of us to review if we wish to reduce worldwide harms, not perpetuate them. 👥 Together, if we are willing to examine ourselves, we can. 🤲