What is Kind Caller?

Kind Caller® is the brand behind Compassionate Strength™ Practice, an educational wellbeing practice for moments when attention drifts. Through Compassionate Strength and the Living Gently™ Club, we offer ways to explore and practise caring for attention, both individually and together.

Why Kind Caller?

Kind Caller is you — the person practising gently returning when your attention drifts. We live in a world where our attention is constantly pulled in different directions. Rather than meeting the drift with judgement, Kind Caller invites us to notice it and return with kindness.

Why kindness matters?

When our attention drifts, we can easily meet the moment with frustration, judgement, or the feeling that we should be doing better. Kindness offers another way — meeting ourselves and our experience with care rather than criticism.

At Kind Caller, we practise caring for our attention as something worth valuing, by exploring how we relate to it. We do this through three progressive returns that build on one another: Kind, Kinder, Kindest™.

Who is Kind Caller for?

Kind Caller is for adults wanting to develop a caring relationship with their attention and everyday experience, and for groups, communities, and workplaces wanting to create spaces where attention can rest and play — individually and together.

What is Compassionate Strength Practice?

Compassion and strength are two words often seen as opposites. We believe they belong together.

Strength helps us notice when our attention naturally drifts. Compassion brings kindness and care to our attention when it does. Compassionate Strength combines these qualities into a practice of caring for our attention — individually and together.

What problem does the practice address?

Our attention naturally drifts. This is a natural part of being human. We don't always notice when it does, and when we do, we may respond with frustration or self-criticism, or think there is something wrong with us that needs fixing.

At the same time, we live in a world where our attention is constantly pulled in different directions. When we don't notice it drifting, we may miss moments of connection with ourselves, others, and what matters.

Explore the many ways attention drifts → The Return

Compassionate Strength Practice isn't about controlling attention or returning quickly. It's about awareness of the drift and care in the return. Our Kind, Kinder, Kindest™ approach invites us to practice caring for our attention in relationship to ourselves, others, and the world around us in everyday moments.

What informs Compassionate Strength Practice?

Compassionate Strength Practice is informed by mindful awareness, self-kindness, the science of attention, and Te Whare Tapa Whā, a Māori model for understanding health and wellbeing. It focuses on bringing kindness and care into the return when we notice our attention has drifted.

Learn more about the research and foundations behind Compassionate Strength™ see credits & research

Kind Caller offers different ways to explore and practise caring for our attention.

Compassionate Strength™ Practice
Our educational wellbeing practice caring for attention when it drifts.

Memberships
Personal Membership offers a 24-week self-guided Compassionate Strength™ Practice. Living Gently™ Club offers a shared way to practise together.

Practice Sessions
Live, pay-as-you-go opportunities to practise noticing and pausing together.

Custom Programmes
Compassionate Strength™ Practice can be thoughtfully adapted for workplaces, communities and groups through tailored themes, relevant examples or co-designed programmes.

Everything we offer is available through the Living Gently App.