Emma Slade: Training in Compassion - a practical perspective

TheOxford Human Rights Festivalraises awareness of human rights through film screenings, poetry, music, theatre, talks, workshops, and exhibitions. Postgraduates and staff at the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) founded the festival in 2003. Based within the School of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, CENDEP continues to host the event today. An organising committee of students, staff, academics, and Oxford residents plans and delivers the festival. We collaborate with local groups, schools, NGOs, and international organisations to create engaging programmes.Each year, the student-led committee selects a central theme. Past themes include Resilience, Identity, Home, Movement, and NOW WHAT? These events have featured prominent speakers such as Scilla Elworthy, Ken Loach, Ziauddin Yousafzai, and Yasmeen Lari. Our exhibitions have showcased artists addressing displacement, belonging, and resistance. The Oxford Brookes University Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment (TDE) provides a small bursary. We rely on voluntary contributions of our committee and friends. We welcome grants and donations to support our funding and mission.The theme for 2026 is Breaking Free. We will explore freedom across generations, discrimination, gaps in human rights protection, and the impact of budget cuts in the humanitarian sector. These topics allow us to examine human rights through the lenses of gender, race, ability, class, and migration.

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Emma had an exciting international career in finance, but a deep seated desire to enquire into the deeper aspects of what it is to be a human being was brought to the surface following a life-changing visit to Jakarta. She resigned from her financial career and began travelling and exploring yoga and meditation.
Emma will speak about the theory and practice of developing the mind through the practices of compassion which lie at the heart of Himalayan Buddhism. The workshop will have formal taught elements as she draws on her years of yogic and meditative practice, reflections and time for Q and A.
After the workshop, Emma will be signing copies of her book, Set Free, which details her inspirational story. Proceeds from the book will be donated to the charity Opening Your Heart to Bhutan.

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