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Photo: Chat News/Ross Lavigne When it was founded in September The Inner Man Project gave men in the community a virtual place to go for mental health support and to raise awareness of the issue. Four months later, they have a physical place to call their own. The Inner Man Project has its own community centre at 6 941 South Railway St. Co-founder Dylan Eckes says it’s huge for the group to have the space. “On average we have 30-40 people coming into our peer sessions every week,” he says. “We have two or three counsellors now that basically show up to the peer sessions if anybody nee...

ASSESSMENT OF THE COMPASSION PROJECT: A case for hope & human-kindness from the town that beat loneliness – Julian Abel and Lindsay Clarke  Aster/ Oxford Publishing Group (2020) “ All the lonely people. Where do they all belong?” – Beatles (Eleanor Rigby) The authors write clearly and convincingly. I enjoyed how they conveyed the extent and depth of fatigue, lethargy, dysphoria, loneliness and elimination of positive motivation in the modern world. (Isolation and loneliness is one of the existential givens of life that form part of pioneering psychiatrist Irvin Yalom’s framework). ...

The Compassion Project Frome in Somerset, UK has seen a dramatic fall in emergency hospital admissions since it began a collective project to combat isolation. While emergency admissions to hospitals across Somerset have increased by 29%, incurring a 21% increase in costs, Frome has seen admissions fall by 17%, with a 21% reduction in costs. Society has developed in such a way to facilitate a drastic malnourishment of community, connection and compassion. This book sets out the case for the effective restoration of the active power of compassion as a widely available, fundamental force for g...