COVID Compassion — Healing Individuals and Society

Jean-Luc Mommaerts
7 min readAug 19, 2020

In a socially challenging period, human traits may come out intensified. Hopefully, in this corona pandemic, Compassion will prevail.

Compassion is not ‘empathy.’

Apart from terminological issues [see: “ Landscape of Empathy “], empathy can be narrow or broad…

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Jean-Luc Mommaerts

Dr. Jean-Luc Mommaerts, MD, MAI, PhD, is mental and exec. coach, author (amazon.com/author/jeanlucmommaerts) and founder/developer of AURELIS (www.aurelis.org).