Become the human you want to be.
Training + Community
Kindness for a Change is our 8-week training program designed to help you learn how to thrive individually and in your relationships and use those same skills to heal our politics and planet. All while connecting with people like you.
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Become the human you want to be.
Training + Community
Kindness for a Change is our 8-week training program designed to help you learn how to thrive individually and in your relationships and use those same skills to heal our politics and planet. All while connecting with people like you.
The live training is closed for now. Sign up to learn about the next training.
What thriving strategies do you have? Which ones do you need?
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.
This world needs you
If you’re feeling lonely and alienated ….. It’s not your fault
Our culture sucks because it tries to tell you that you’re the problem all while this culture is ruining the planet.
We tell ourselves “I suck!”…”I’m a failure!”…”I’m such a loser!”…“Why can’t I just be positive?!” And we’re too busy to change. We’re so much in “go mode” that we can’t … be.
So our bad habits keep us trapped in cycles of self-criticism, depression and isolation.
The solution is to deal with reality skillfully, early, and often with kindness. Then we can make positive changes for ourselves and connect with each other to make a better world.
I’ll lay all this out for you in my free live webinar, Thriving Together.
This world needs you
If you’re feeling lonely and alienated ….. It’s not your fault
Our culture sucks because it tries to tell you that you’re the problem all while this culture is ruining the planet.
We tell ourselves “I suck!”…”I’m a failure!”…”I’m such a loser!”…“Why can’t I just be positive?!” And we’re too busy to change. We’re so much in “go mode” that we can’t … be.
So our bad habits keep us trapped in cycles of self-criticism, depression and isolation.
The solution is to deal with reality skillfully, early, and often with kindness. Then we can make positive changes for ourselves and connect with each other to make a better world.
I’ll lay all this out for you in my free live webinar, Thriving Together.
The Cure is Connection:
to ourselves, our people, our planet.
The violence destroying our politics and planet is the same violence that's causing individual suffering and disconnected relationships
- Feel less lonely and alienated
- Learn how to turn suffering into thriving
- Increase your wellbeing
- Thrive, connect, and collaborate for change
- Be able to talk to people about the hard things
- Maintain healthy boundaries
- Save a world that’s falling apart
- Understand the interdependence between yourself, your relationships, and the planet
What Healthcare Professionals Say About Dr. MacCoon
Participants in medical and healthcare keynote talks and workshops who provided anonymous feedback – meaning honest – feedback.
Just some of what you'll learn...
Born Buddha, Not Bad
You were born enlightened but — like most of us — you were taught bad habits that lead to loneliness, anxiety, depression, and alienation. Then, you were taught to blame yourself for the bad habits you were taught! The #1 way to transform to thriving and connection is to rediscover your wisdom and power.
Talk (& listen) like a Ninja
…er, if ninjas weren’t just ghostly silent and violent all the time?! Seriously, when you tap your own wisdom with centeredness and learn how to communicate that to the world skillfully, early, and often even when others don’t have those skills, there’s no stopping you! Go ahead and break that board, you Ninja you!
1 Solution, 2 Changes...
The one solution we need to thrive, connect, and heal our planet? Deal with reality, early, often, and skillfully.
Doing that requires two changes: (1) Learn to deal with unpleasant emotion skillfully, and (2) Distribute power more equally.
Navigate Complexity
There are three types of problems in life: (1) Simple, like baking a cake; (2) Complicated, like building a rocket; and (3) Complex, like raising a child. We haven’t been trained in the skill to navigate complexity. Discernment is that skill — you’ll learn what it is and why it’s essential to thriving.
Valuable Misfit.
Beautiful Weirdo.
Your suffering is the solution. Those who are lucky and fit in don’t have to learn new habits because the mainstream habits work just fine. And, the lucky don’t want to learn the new habits because that requires work. But if you’re here it’s because you have the experience, courage and self-awareness to know that those mainstream habits need to be transformed into something new, not just for yourself, but for your community, and our planet. So embrace your inner weirdo because we need you!
Being > Doing
Our culture is all about doing — go, go, go. But fast response times and reactivity are a path to increased suffering. Thomas Merton observed that busyness is a form of violence. Many of us are so busy drowning, we can’t learn to swim. We’re so much in “go mode” that we can’t…be.
Learn the difference between responding and reacting. We need firefly moments, moments of space and breathing. Learn how “being mode” is essential for wisdom and navigating complexity.
