Seeds of Compassion

Final Report

The purpose of this project was to plant seeds of compassion to promote Ballarat as a caring city underpinned by the compassionate wishes of its future leaders. Nearly 100 wishes were received from Ballarat students in Year 6 and Year 10 classes and the collected wishes were subject to a content analysis and were written up under the following five headings:

1) INCLUSION – ACCEPTANCE – BELONGING

2) RESPECT – UNITY – PEACE

3) SAFE – PROTECTED – COMPASSIONATE

4) COHESION – HARMONY – EQUALITY

5) THRIVING – MEANING – POTENTIAL

The student’s wishes will be distributed across Ballarat, and they will also be circulated to cities around the world who have signed the Charter for Compassion. By sharing this report globally, we offer these cities a valuable demonstration project for them to consider replicating, and Compassionate Ballarat will continue to work with the City Council to make tangible, as many of these wishes as possible.