Who We Are Welcome to Zen Compassionate Care, an outreach of The Still Point Center for Western Zen Practice. Our mission is to bring open-hearted volunteer support to people confronted with life-changing situations and to the people who care for them as they struggle to regain balance and bring meaning to their lives. You may work with or know someone who has gone through the struggle of adjusting to this kind of situation and know what it would mean to receive the gift of supportive presence and listening. You may understand the value of a volunteer program based in Zen practice that brings compassion, first to the heart of the volunteer, and then extends compassionate companionship to others. We invite you to be a part of this program that transforms the way we stand alongside each other in those difficult times when life does not turn out as we had planned.
Deepening Compassionate
Awareness
 
Whom We Serve Imagine the challenge of being diagnosed with a chronic illness or going through a major life transition that limits your life, changing your daily routines and altering the social connections that have given you meaning and focus. In addition to the immediate sense of isolation, limitation, and frustration you might also experience apprehension that these unsettling changes will continue to occur, bringing even more challenges. At the same time those closest to you may begin to pull back because they don’t know how to help. Through referrals from physicians and other caring professionals Zen Compassionate Care volunteers provide several months of weekly visits with people in this situation. How We Serve Zen Compassionate Care volunteers begin from a background in the spiritual practice of conscious compassionate awareness. This Western Zen perspective allows them to enter the situation with a basic confidence in each person’s capacity to experience whatever life may hold. They are able to provide a few hours a week of calm presence, engaged listening, and open-hearted acceptance of whatever is arising for those they serve. In this atmosphere of authentic compassionate companionship, much can be shared to ease the feelings of isolation and distress.
 
 
Extending
Open-Hearted
Companionship
 
 
Your Donations Make it Possible
 
Zen Compassionate Care is supported by donations from the Chico Community. Donations are tax-deductible. For more information call The Still Point/Zen Compassionate Care at
(530) 321-5392
Zen Compassionate Care
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