101 - Jennifer Nadel

When I'm connected to my innermost self, my geographical location matters far less.

So compassion is the space that I'm working in and it was quite a journey to get to this space because I have been a campaigner, activist and a journalist. I've run for parliament a couple of times and I've been a lawyer and in all of those worlds, I was in a very binary world of right or wrong, and developed quite an addiction to being right, to thinking what I knew the right thing was. My belief is that we shouldn't other and part of the problem with many government policies in my view is that we other those that we should be including. I've campaigned in lots of different areas, refugees, homelessness, climate and all of them have the same underlying cause, which is the absence of compassion. They're all symptoms of the same thing. And so, I took a step back and asked, what is the thing I could do that would really make a difference? There was such a hunger, for value for things that people could believe in and now through Compassion in Politics, we've got active engagement from over 100 MPs and we've got groups springing up across the world, all of whom want to prioritise compassion.

An island called Mount desert island in Acadia National Park in Maine

When you look under the water and and see what's there, you realise how little you know and also just how creative the universe is. The shocking colours that when you see them on a palette, in a shop or in an art gallery, you think those are so fake those colours but you realise they all exist in nature.