Center For Engaged Compassion - History

 

Note: This is not an official post created by the CEC. It was created by a researcher to assist any who might be interested.  Official CEC website – https://www.centerforengagedcompassion.com/

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HISTORY OF CENTER FOR ENGAGED COMPASSION

[Year?] - Frank Rogers Jr. joins faculty, Claremont Theology School (CST).

2000 - Andrew Dreitcer joins CST faculty July, 2000.

2002 - Frank Rogers Jr. leaves CST faculty; for 3 years directs a narrative arts program for under-resourced youth.

2005 - Frank Rogers Jr. rejoins CST faculty.

2005-2007 - Frank Rogers & Andrew Dreitcer team-teach classes at CST. The courses “reflected Frank’s notion of a ‘three-fold spirituality’ – contemplation, creativity, and compassion,” Dreitcer says, “These courses formed the core of what we were developing as a spiritual formation concentration and were the context and basis for developing the compassion formation work we do now, as well as the grounding for the Center for Engaged Compassion.” The seeds for the Compassion Practice; “The epiphany about the labyrinth.” That was when we knew we were doing something different from the major tradition.”

2008 - Aug. 2008 – Frank Rogers Jr.; Sausalito, Ca. retreat; “The Compassion Practice crystallized at the retreat.” “The Compassion Practice was birthed in a white-walled apartment by the San Francisco Bay in Sausalito.” [Rogers, Practicing Compassion, 2015, p. 7]; Triptykos School of Compassion receives $300,000 grant from Don Morrison (COO of RIM (Blackberry)) [attended Sausalito retreat?]

2008 - Triptykos School of Compassion - founded - 400 Morton street, Ashland, Oregon 97520; Co-founders: Andrew Dreitcer, Frank Rogers Jr., Mark Yaconelli; changed to The Hearth (established 2010), Yaconelli; Triptykos superseded in 2010 by Center for Engaged Compassion. 

2008 - “Neuroscience & Spiritual Practice: Transforming the Embodied Mind,” conference, October 12-14, 2008, in Claremont, California.; Speakers: Fr. Thomas Keating - ( St. Benedict’s Monastery), B. Alan Wallace - (Santa Barbara Inst. for Consciousness Studies), Evan Thompson - (University of Toronto), Daniel J. Siegel - (Center for Human Development, UCLA), Richard Davidson - (University of Wisconsin), Nahid Angha - (International Association of Sufism), Michael Spezio - (Scripps College), Monica A. Coleman - (Claremont School of Theology), Shauna Shapiro - (Santa Clara University), Thandeka - (Meadville-Lombard Theological Seminary), Cassandra Vieten - (California Pacific Medical Center), John B. Cobb, Jr. - (Claremont School of Theology; Center for Process Studies), Clifford Saron - (Center for Mind & Brain, UC Davis), Andrew Dreitcer - (Claremont School of Theology), Steve Padilla - (L.A. Times), Frank Rogers, Jr. - (Claremont School of Theology), Roland Faber - (Claremont School of Theology; Center for Process Studies), Rick Hanson - (Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience & Contemplative Wisdom), Martinez Hewlett - (University of Arizona), Petr Janata - (Center for Mind and Brain, U.C. Davis), John Buchanan - (psychologist), Ben Johnson - (Columbia Theological Seminary), Richard Mendius - (Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience & Contemplative Wisdom), Steve Odin - (University of Hawai’i), David E. Roy - (Center for Creative Transformation, Fresno), Mustafa Ruzgar - (California State University, Northridge) Marvin Sweeney - (Claremont School of Theology), William S. Waldron - (Middlebury College).

2009 - Andrew Dreitcer, Frank Rogers, Mark Yaconelli, invited by Mazvita Machinga – Reconciliation Workshop, Mutare, Zimbabwe. – Mazvita Machinga, founding director of the Pastoral Care and Counseling Centre in Matare, Zimbabwe; Ph.D. student in my courses at Claremont School of Theology. [Andy Dreitcer, “The Grace of Hope in the Midst of Horror,” Wabash Magazine, Spring 2010.]

2010 - Center for Engaged Compassion (CEC) founded, Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, Ca.; Supersedes Triptykos School of Compassion (Ashland, Oregon).

2011 - Center for Engaged Compassion convocation; St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado; Thomas Keating (a founder of the Centering Prayer movement), contemplatives, academics, and neuroscientists. Conversation between Christian contemplatives and neuroscientists in hopes of designing future research projects. [Yaconelli article: Jul. 17, 2011]

2012 - “Cultivating Compassion in an Unforgiving World.” Training for prison ministry, developed with Prison Fellowship, Canada. [Yaconelli, Mar. 7, 2012]

2013 - CEC receives Grant from 1440 Foundation (Scotts Valley, Ca.).1440 mission: Cancer collaboration. Inner well-being, Community building.

2013 - CEC first offers Certificate in Engaged Compassion. (accredited by CST?).

2014 - Book: Frank Rogers Jr., Practicing Compassion, Dec. 5, 2014, Upper Room Books / Fresh Air Books.

2016 - Book: Frank Rogers Jr., Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus, Aug. 1, 2016, Upper Room Books.

2017 - Book: Andrew Dreitcer, Living Compassion: Loving Like Jesus, Nov. 1, 2017, Upper Room Books.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1998

Andrew Dreitcer, “New Testament images for spiritual direction,” 1998, The Way, a journal of contemporary spirituality published by the British Jesuits. (The Way Supplement No. 91, pp. 50-62). London.

2001

Ben Campbell Johnson, Andrew Dreitcer, Beyond the Ordinary: Spirituality for Church Leaders, 2001,  Wm. B. Eerdmans.

2009

Mark Yaconelli, “Threefold Compassion,” Patheos, Nov. 4, 2009.

2010

Andy Dreitcer, “The Grace of Hope in the Midst of Horror,” Wabash Magazine, Spring 2010.

Deborah Arca Mooney, “Wonder, Fear, and Longing: An Interview with Mark Yaconelli,” Patheos, Mar. 11, 2010.

2011

Mark Yaconelli, “Science, Contemplation, and the God Who Doesn’t Exist,” July 17, 2011.

Frank Rogers Jr., Finding God in the Graffiti: Empowering Teenagers through Stories (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, September 2011).

Frank Rogers Jr., The God of Shattered Glass: A Novel (Eugene, OR: Emerald City Books, January 2011).

2012

Mark Yaconelli, “There’s Love In Me,” Mark Yaconelli, Mar. 7, 2012 (“Cultivating Compassion in an Unforgiving World,” Prison Fellowship, Canada).

2013

Mark Yaconelli & Frank Rogers Jr., “Is it Harmful to Tell People to Love Their Enemies If You Never Teach Them How?,” Red Letter Christians, July 18, 2013.

Mark Yaconelli, “Grant Award to Promote Compassion Training,” Mark Yaconelli, July 26, 2013.

2014

“Concurrent Session 3 – Heartfulness as Mindfulness: Affectivity and Perspective in Abrahamic and Dharmic Traditions”; Linda-Susan Beard, Andrew Dreitcer, Brent A. Field, John Makransky, Rabbi Or Rose, Michael Spezio; 2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session.

Andrew Dreitcer, “Loving Our Enemies: A Contemplative Christian Approach to Compassion,” The Mary Interlandi '05 Memorial Lecture, Mar. 3, 2014, Brown University,, Providence, RI.

Frank Rogers Jr., Practicing Compassion, (Nashville, TN: Upper Room Books / Fresh Air Books, Dec. 5, 2014),

Sung-Jin Yang, “Cultivating Compassionate Living Grounded in a Christian Approach in the Violent World,” Methodist Theological University, Korea; 2014 REA Annual Meeting, Nov. 7-9.

2016

Frank Rogers Jr., Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus, (Nashville, TN: Upper Room Books, Aug. 1, 2016).

Andrew Dreitcer, forward to: Rolf R. Nolasco Jr. & Vincent McDonald, Compassionate Presence: A Radical Response to Human Suffering, 2016, Wipf and Stock.

2017

Andrew Dreitcer, Living Compassion: Loving Like Jesus, (Nashville, TN: Upper Room Books, Nov. 1, 2017).

Andrew Dreitcer, “Relationship: The Heart of Christian Contemplative Practices,” The Wise Brain Bulletin News and Tools for Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, Volume 6,6 (12/2012).

2018

“You make possible collaborative transformative education.” Report on Philanthropy 2017-2018, Claremont School of Theology, 2018, pp. 18-19.

Frank Rogers, “Cultivating Resilience in Chaplaincy: Keynote lecture, "Cultivating Resilience Through the Peaks and Valleys of Chaplaincy" conference, Harvard Divinity School, May 2, 2018. Video.

2019

Frank Rogers Jr., “Warriors of Compassion: Coordinates on the Compass of Compassion-Based Activism” chapter in Taking it to the Streets: Public Theologies of Activism and Resistance, Editor Jennifer Baldwin (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2019).

2020

Frank Rogers Jr., “Compassion-Based Spiritual Direction: Internal Family Systems as a Resource for Spiritual Companions,” Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction 26, 4 (December 2020): 50-60.

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