Awakin Calls

Exploring inner journeys to expand outer edges.

Conversations with changemakers to inspire deeper awareness and transformative action. Each offering is co-created by a team of volunteers distributed across the world, in the spirit of service and kinship. That's Awakin. More ...

"In a gentle way, we can shake the world." --Gandhi

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Susan Bauer-Wu

Susan Bauer-Wu

Redefining the Architecture of Caring with Attention and Active Hope

Susan Bauer-Wu, the former President of Mind & Life Institute, is a teacher of contemplative modalities and a meditation practitioner. Having served as an oncology nurse, clinical scientist, and academic for decades, her mission emerges from a fusing of the spiritual, scientific, and secular realms, coupled with a calling for deep service and human care. Her experiences as a young woman with her mother's life and death laid the groundwork for her approach to caring, mortality, and service. Susan’s subsequent research, scholarship, and teaching examined chronic stress and the use of contemplative approaches to corroborate stress resilience and well-being, especially for those challenged by serious illness. She translated the learnings into her first book, Leaves Falling Gently: Living Fully with Serious & Life-limiting Illness through Mindfulness, Compassion and Connectedness, which she expanded and republished in 2023 to foreground critical insights and actions.

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Awakin Calls is an initiative of ServiceSpace, a global, all-volunteer community dedicated to small acts of great love. Our webinar and podcast series highlights the outer work and inner journeys of individuals who are transforming our world in large and small ways. We aim to inspire and seed shifts in consciousness by highlighting paradigm-shifting ways of being and doing in the world. We are a heart-centered learning community across wisdom traditions exploring the ServiceSpace principle of “change yourself, change the world”. We organize our processes in accordance with the principles we seek to lift up, and so each conversation is co-created by a team of volunteers distributed across the world, in a spirit of intrinsically motivated service and kinship.

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