Early Years
The Early Year’s Working Group focuses on family well-being, from conception to early adulthood, with all kinds of parents and all kinds of families.
Our interest is in promoting not only the health and happiness of today’s children and young people but in building for them a future that is safe, kind, and caring.
“If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.”
– Marian Wright Edelman
Essential Reading
Books on Early Years and Compassion
Our Founding Organizations
Organizations Working on Compassion in Early Years
Watch
Videos about Compassion in Early Years
Compassionate approaches to childhood distress
Rearing children in caring communities
Cultivating Compassion: Compassion in Children and Adults
When Are Kids Old Enough to Talk About Race?
Early Start Parents Give Advice
How BIPOC Jai Parenting Coaches Are Leading In the Peaceful Parenting Movement
Compassion for your co-parent
The beautiful, hard work of co-parenting
Healing from Childhood Trauma
Capital News Center: YOGA KIDS: Finding Inner Peace in the Inner City
Our Founding Supporters
People Working on Compassion for Early Years from our Founding Supporters
Adele Diamond
Canada Research Chair & Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
University of British Columbia (UBC)
Asi Sharabi
CEO
Wonderbly
Beth Reel
Co-Executive Director
Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center
Bliss Beata Lewis
Psychiatrist
Mind Body Seven Psychiatry PC
Christine O’Connell
Executive Director
Rileys Way Foundation
Darcia Narvaez
Founder
EvolvedNest.org
Dawn Courage Popatia
Educator/Coach/Writer
Independent
Harriet Broadfoot
Researcher and Teacher, Early Childhood Education
Durham University
Jamie Lynn Tatera
Founder, Teacher, and Teacher Trainer
Self-Compassion for Children and Caregivers
Jane Hampton
Co-Executive Director
Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center, Inc.
Kai Shappley
Activist
Kai Shappley, Inc
Kathryn Lovewell
Founder, Creative Director, Author
Kind Mind Academy
Liliana Lengua
Professor, Child Clinical Psychology
University of Washington Center for Child and Family Well-being
Lisa Reagan
Founder
Kindred World
Lorraine Hobbs
Founding Director
Youth & Family Programs, UCSD Center for Mindfulness
Luis Miguel Gallardo
Founder and President
World Happiness Foundation
Magdalena Whoolery
Registered Nurse & Founder
Breastfeeding International
Susan Dzimbiri
Pediatric Nurse & National Coordinator
Compassion Connectors - Malawi
Tasneem Behardien
NLP Coach, Facilitator and Craftivist
Cape Town Stitch to Resist and Alchemy of Becoming
Tina Bryson
Author/Speaker/Founder & CEO, LCSW
The Center for Connection
Yaffa Maritz
Co-Founder
The Charter for compassion and Center of Families Well Being at UW