
The Mind Bod Adventure Pod
My Friend Tara: Helping Kids Meet Compassion | Ivan Bercholz
<p>This week we’re hanging with Ivan Bercholz, co-owner of Shambhala Publications, publisher of Bala Kids, and co-author (with illustrator Lasha Mutual) of My Friend Tara, a children’s book that introduces kids to Tara, the Buddhist archetype of compassion.</p><p>Ivan set out to create a book that gets straight to the heart of practice: how can kids actually relate to an archetypal quality? How do you help them imagine compassion as something fun, alive, and embodied? How do you make an ancient practice feel natural for modern kiddos?</p><p>When Jeff’s rambunctious six-year-old Eden stumbl...






