Joan Halifax Compassion and the true meaning of empathy

Noting events organized for the promotion of inclusive financial sectors, including the convening of the Global Microcredit Summit in Halifax, Canada, from 12 to 15 November 2006,

In June of 2002, having completed the programme of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute at Dalhousie University School of Law, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Sir Burton became a Fellow of that Institute.

Boris Worm, Assistant Professor in Marine Conservation Biology, Biology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, made a presentation on the causes and consequences of and solutions to the global decline in large pelagic fish.

Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life . She shares what she's learned about compassion in the face of death and dying, and a deep insight into the nature of empathy.

We started in Bermuda for our test project, then moved up to Halifax, working down the U.S. East Coast, the Caribbean Sea, the Panama Canal, through to the Galapagos, then across the Pacific, and we're in the process now of working our way across the Indian Ocean.