Kindness for a Change
from wetiko to ecosystem culture
This 8-week live online training is anti-wetiko & pro kindness through honoring the shadow. Training to heal ourselves, our relationships, politics, & planet.
Kindness for a Change
from wetiko to ecosystem culture
This 8-week live online training is anti-wetiko & pro kindness through honoring the shadow. Training to heal ourselves, our relationships, politics, & planet.
About Dr. Donal MacCoon
Integrated Expertise
- Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the best national program in his field
- Therapist for 20 years, helping hundreds of individuals, couples, and groups learn to thrive
- Published 20+ scientific articles related to sustainable well-being, anxiety, depression, and dysregulated behavior
- Survived 13 years of personal suffering (3 years of child’s cancer, family implosion, and 7+ years of wife’s disabling pain)
- Member of cohousing community for 16 years
- Studied with world experts in ecology, sustainable agriculture, and permaculture
- Ran several political campaigns (back in the day)
Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People
As a scientist, Donal worked closely with Dr. Richard Davidson, named a Time Magazine 100 Most Influential Person and known for his neuroscience work with the Dalai Lama.
Co-inventor of Proven Wellbeing Program
Donal co-invented and scientifically validated a group-based program that helped hundreds of people thrive and increase their sustainable wellbeing.
About Dr. Donal MacCoon
Integrated Expertise
- Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the best national program in his field
- Therapist for 20 years, helping hundreds of individuals, couples, and groups learn to thrive
- Published 20+ scientific articles related to sustainable well-being, anxiety, depression, and dysregulated behavior
- Survived 13 years of personal suffering (3 years of child’s cancer, family implosion, and 7+ years of wife’s disabling pain)
- Member of cohousing community for 16 years
- Studied with world experts in ecology, sustainable agriculture, and permaculture
- Ran several political campaigns (back in the day)
Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People
As a scientist, Donal worked closely with Dr. Richard Davidson, named a Time Magazine 100 Most Influential Person and known for his neuroscience work with the Dalai Lama.
Co-inventor of Proven Wellbeing Program
Donal co-invented and scientifically validated a group-based program that helped hundreds of people thrive and increase their sustainable wellbeing.
Kindness for a Change is the most complete training available specifically designed to turn wetiko loneliness and alienation into thriving, connecting, & collaborating for change
The training integrates three levels of transformation, all of which work together to support your individual and relationship thriving first and foremost!
Individual thriving
- Mindfulness training
- Decrease loneliness & isolation
- How does change work?
- Decrease self-criticism
- Increase well-being
- Your brain & nervous system
- Language Mind Traps
- Recovery from mistakes
- Find meaning & purpose
- Find energy & passion
- Unifying Framework applied to You
Relationship thriving
- Mindfulness training
- Compassion & Empathy
- Compassion = Dealing with Reality
- Connect emotionally & deeply with partner & friends
- Brain & nervous system in relationship
- Skillful boundaries
- Skillful disagreement
- Relationship compatibility
- Sex
- Unifying Framework applied to Relationships
Planetary thriving
- How the history of our culture leads to fragile living
- What resilient culture & living looks like
- From the past Industrial to the future Ecosystem Culture
- Life Design models & inspiration from individuals and communities for physical and social technologies
- Permaculture principles for a resilient & sustainable planet
- Unifying Framework applied to Culture & Planet
A Tour of the Six Areas of Skills & Knowledge
A Tour of the Six Areas of Skills & Knowledge
Area One
Integrative Foundation for Individual Thriving
Training 1.1 – Mindfulness Meditation
Training 1.2 – Thriving Strategies and Overview
Training 1.3 – Loneliness
Training 1.4 – Change and Expected Transformations
Training 1.5 – Kindness
Training 1.6 – Mindfulness Deep Dive
Training 1.7 – Enlightenment, Wisdom, Discernment
Training 1.8 – Language Mind Traps
Area Two
Transforming Relationships
Training 2.1 – Thriving Strategies in Relationships
Training 2.2 – Areas of Compatibility with focus on Sex
Training 2.3 – Repair and Ninja Communication
Training 2.4 – Empathy Dialog Card Game
Training 2.5 – Parenting
Training 2.6 – 19+ Patterns to Improve Relationships
Area Three
Brain and Nervous System
Training 3.1 – Polyvagal Theory: Safety, Fight-Flight
Training 3.2 – Foundations of Safety and Connection
Training 3.3 – Adverse Childhood Events
Training 3.4 – Neurocognitive Reprogramming
Area Four
Lessons from Big History
Training 4.1 – A Brief History of the Planet
Training 4.2 – A Brief History of Homo Sapiens
Training 4.3 – A Brief History of Civilization
Training 4.4 – Misfit Hero Advice
Training 4.5 – The Great Mistake
Training 4.6 – The Great Truth & Transformation
Area Five
New Life Design: Physical Technology
Training 5.1 – What is Life Design?
Training 5.2 – Permaculture: Permanent Culture
Training 5.3 – Ecovillages & Cohousing
Training 5.4 – Inspiring Life Designers
Area Six
New Life Design: Social Technology
Training 6.1 – Life Design: Social
Training 6.2 – Kindness, Love, and Capitalism
Training 6.3 – Government: State of Democracy
Training 6.4 – Social Life Designers
Training 6.5 – Strategies for New Ways of Living
Training 6.6 – Lessons from Cooperative Living
The heart of KFAC are the Thriving Strategies
Click here to learn about yours!
The science is with us
Kindness for a Change is based on years of experience in science, including principles of design and healing. It is based on everything I learned co-inventing an 8-week training program with proven results in several randomized controlled trials conducted in cooperation with Dr. Richard Davidson, named by Time Magazine as a 100 Most Influential Person. The primary article on the wellbeing program I co-invented has been cited 122 times by other scientific publications!
Healthcare professionals love us
Hundreds of patients thriving
My patients' stories are all confidential so I can't share a single testimonial from them. And, the Kindness for a Change training is NOT psychotherapy and cannot substitute for it. However, I can tell you that these are some of the results my patients have achieved using the same principles I'm sharing in this training:
- Decreased loneliness
- Better sense of fit in the world
- Understanding of how their suffering is part of their wisdom
- Increased number and quality of friends
- Better communication
- Better relationships with their kids
- Healthier and closer relationship with romantic partner
- Increased wellbeing
- Decreased depression and anxiety
- Increased meaning and purpose
- Increased energy and passion
- More confidence and joy in life
- Better boundaries
- Less reactive anger
- Better self-awareness
- More organized and efficient