10/11/2025
CI Experience – and what an experience!
On Saturday I took part in this beautiful global gathering organized by Compassionate Inquiry. People from so many corners of the world came together curious, open, vulnerable. There were demonstrations, small group practices, and the possibility to experience 1:1 sessions. I was there as a practitioner, holding space in one of the zoom rooms, and as always, I am humbled by what can happen when someone feels safe enough to look within. Sometimes just a few minutes of being truly seen can soften something that has been tight for years.
Gabor Maté was also there. He shared again how Compassionate Inquiry was born, not as a technique, not as a theory, but as a response to real human suffering. He spoke about his years working as a medical doctor, meeting so many people with chronic illnesses, pain, and symptoms that medicine alone couldn’t fully cure. And how, when he sat with them long enough, he began to see the emotional echoes behind the illness — the tension held in the body from stories that were never told, tears that were never allowed to be felt, needs that were never met.
Many of these people couldn’t afford therapy. And so he simply started to talk with them. To listen. To stay. To ask the kind of questions that don’t push, but gently open a door. Questions that guide someone back to their own truth — the one that was always there, just buried under survival strategies.
This is how Compassionate Inquiry came to life: as an approach that helps us explore what lies beneath our patterns and emotional responses, always through compassion, not judgment. It’s not about analyzing someone. It’s about guiding them back to themselves.
And there’s a reason it’s called Inquiry and Compassionate:
Inquiry — because through guided questions we help people find their own truth. The truth is already inside each of us, the truth of our essence, sometimes hidden under protection, survival, learning to be who we needed to be.
Compassionate — because the truth can sometimes be painful. It can be painful, for example, to realize that being “nice” was actually a desperate way to try to feel loved. But compassion makes room for that pain, gently. With compassion, the truth becomes something we can meet, even when it hurts. As A.H. Almaas said, “Only when compassion is present, people will allow themselves to see the truth.”
This event left my heart full. The presence, the courage, the humanity of it all. I am grateful to be part of this community, grateful for the work, and grateful for every person who shows up to meet themselves more deeply.
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