The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education

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The Center for Compassion And Altruism Research And Education

8-Week Compassion Course (Wednesdays)

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Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online

Class Details

  • SUMMER SESSION B | June 25 – August 13, 2025
  • 8 WEDNESDAYS | 10 am – 12 pm PDT (check your time zone)
  • INSTRUCTOR | Robert Cusick & Neelama Eyres
  • REGISTRATION FEE | $425 (includes course instruction, online materials, and guided meditation recordings)
  • CE CREDITS | Learn more…
  • REGISTRATION | Opens soon!

Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online is designed to help you develop the skills of (self)compassion, (self)awareness, reflection, meditation and more, skills that are anchored in evidence-based practices. Cultivating foundational contemplative practices and and connecting to your heart through Presence and Awareness is at the core of this 8-week online course.

There is a correlation between compassion and personal well-being. Research suggests that as we become more aware of ‘being’ with ourselves in a compassionate way, we gradually begin to recognize and experience a more fully integrated sense of connection with our deeper core values and intentions. To directly embody and experience the benefits of cultivating and anchoring attention in our body and heart, however, necessitates learning how to train and incline the mind towards a more compassionate, resilient, and authentic life. This requires a rebalancing of our over-developed habit of ‘doing’ with one of ‘being.’

Participants in this 8-week course work with contemplative practices for at least 20 minutes in each class session. By actively engaging in the practices to cultivate greater awareness and hone new skills for emotional self-regulation, we learn how to connect to ourselves first and drop from our head into our heart. As an entry point, Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online integrates the “Alphabet of the Heart,” a mnemonic created by Dr. James Doty, CCARE Founder and Director. 

Continuing Education (CE) Credits

If you are an LCSW, LEP, LMFT, LPCC, RN, or licensed psychologist, you can earn 14 CE credits for your Compassion Course for an additional fee of $175. It is the sole responsibility of the participant to attend the entire class meetings, always have their video on, participate in the class, and submit a separate course evaluation form at the end of the final class. No partial CE credit is available if more than one class is missed.

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Apply basic mindfulness skills and utilize mindfulness meditation to stay present and heartful to self and others
  • Apply learned compassion skills as a response to everyday needs and demands in personal and professional settings
  • Utilize compassion practice with oneself and others for emotional regulation in the face of distress
  • Utilize cognitive re-framing with oneself and others from the compassionate stance of common humanity
  • Describe the difference between compassion and empathetic distress, and how empathic distress leads to burnout
  • Utilize evidence-based self-compassion meditation practices in the context of personal and professional relationships
  • List three sources of resistance to the development of self-compassion
  • Explain three ways to recognize resistance to compassion for and from others
  • Describe physiological substrates of concentration and how this helps manage stress and anxiety
  • Describe current research studies on the effects and effectiveness of compassion practices

Please review the following information for your profession

CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, email CCARE at CompassionEducation@stanford.edu. For questions about CE, email Spiritual Competency Academy at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.

8-Week Compassion Course (Mondays)

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Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online

Class Details

  • SUMMER SESSION A | June 23 – August 11, 2025
  • 8 MONDAYS | 4 pm – 6 pm PDT (check your time zone)
  • INSTRUCTOR | Britta Eskey
  • REGISTRATION FEE | $425 (includes course instruction, online materials, and guided meditation recordings)
  • CE CREDITS | Learn more…
  • REGISTRATION | Opens soon!

Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online is designed to help you develop the skills of (self)compassion, (self)awareness, reflection, meditation and more, skills that are anchored in evidence-based practices. Cultivating foundational contemplative practices and and connecting to your heart through Presence and Awareness is at the core of this 8-week online course.

There is a correlation between compassion and personal well-being. Research suggests that as we become more aware of ‘being’ with ourselves in a compassionate way, we gradually begin to recognize and experience a more fully integrated sense of connection with our deeper core values and intentions. To directly embody and experience the benefits of cultivating and anchoring attention in our body and heart, however, necessitates learning how to train and incline the mind towards a more compassionate, resilient, and authentic life. This requires a rebalancing of our over-developed habit of ‘doing’ with one of ‘being.’

Participants in this 8-week course work with contemplative practices for at least 20 minutes in each class session. By actively engaging in the practices to cultivate greater awareness and hone new skills for emotional self-regulation, we learn how to connect to ourselves first and drop from our head into our heart. As an entry point, Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online integrates the “Alphabet of the Heart,” a mnemonic created by Dr. James Doty, CCARE Founder and Director. 

Continuing Education (CE) Credits

If you are an LCSW, LEP, LMFT, LPCC, RN, or licensed psychologist, you can earn 14 CE credits for your Compassion Course for an additional fee of $175. It is the sole responsibility of the participant to attend the entire class meetings, always have their video on, participate in the class, and submit a separate course evaluation form at the end of the final class. No partial CE credit is available if more than one class is missed.

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Apply basic mindfulness skills and utilize mindfulness meditation to stay present and heartful to self and others
  • Apply learned compassion skills as a response to everyday needs and demands in personal and professional settings
  • Utilize compassion practice with oneself and others for emotional regulation in the face of distress
  • Utilize cognitive re-framing with oneself and others from the compassionate stance of common humanity
  • Describe the difference between compassion and empathetic distress, and how empathic distress leads to burnout
  • Utilize evidence-based self-compassion meditation practices in the context of personal and professional relationships
  • List three sources of resistance to the development of self-compassion
  • Explain three ways to recognize resistance to compassion for and from others
  • Describe physiological substrates of concentration and how this helps manage stress and anxiety
  • Describe current research studies on the effects and effectiveness of compassion practices

Please review the following information for your profession

CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, email CCARE at CompassionEducation@stanford.edu. For questions about CE, email Spiritual Competency Academy at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.

8-Week Compassion Course (Thursdays)

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Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online

Class Details

  • 8 THURSDAYS | April 3 – May 22, 2025
  • TIME | 10 am – 12 pm PDT (check your time zone)
  • INSTRUCTOR | Neelama Eyres
  • REGISTRATION FEE | $425 (includes course instruction, online materials, and guided meditation recordings)
  • CE CREDITS | Learn More

Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online is designed to help you develop the skills of (self)compassion, (self)awareness, reflection, meditation and more, skills that are anchored in evidence-based practices. Cultivating foundational contemplative practices and and connecting to your heart through Presence and Awareness is at the core of this 8-week online course.

There is a correlation between compassion and personal well-being. Research suggests that as we become more aware of ‘being’ with ourselves in a compassionate way, we gradually begin to recognize and experience a more fully integrated sense of connection with our deeper core values and intentions. To directly embody and experience the benefits of cultivating and anchoring attention in our body and heart, however, necessitates learning how to train and incline the mind towards a more compassionate, resilient, and authentic life. This requires a rebalancing of our over-developed habit of ‘doing’ with one of ‘being.’

Participants in this 8-week course work with contemplative practices for at least 20 minutes in each class session. By actively engaging in the practices to cultivate greater awareness and hone new skills for emotional self-regulation, we learn how to connect to ourselves first and drop from our head into our heart. As an entry point, Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online integrates the “Alphabet of the Heart,” a mnemonic created by Dr. James Doty, CCARE Founder and Director. 

REGISTER NOW

Continuing Education (CE) Credits

If you are an LCSW, LEP, LMFT, LPCC, RN, or licensed psychologist, you can earn 14 CE credits for your Compassion Course for a fee of $175. It is the sole responsibility of the participant to attend the entire class meetings, always have their video on, participate in the class, and submit a separate course evaluation form at the end of the final class. No partial CE credit is available if more than one class is missed.

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Apply basic mindfulness skills and utilize mindfulness meditation to stay present and heartful to self and others
  • Apply learned compassion skills as a response to everyday needs and demands in personal and professional settings
  • Utilize compassion practice with oneself and others for emotional regulation in the face of distress
  • Utilize cognitive re-framing with oneself and others from the compassionate stance of common humanity
  • Describe the difference between compassion and empathetic distress, and how empathic distress leads to burnout
  • Utilize evidence-based self-compassion meditation practices in the context of personal and professional relationships
  • List three sources of resistance to the development of self-compassion
  • Explain three ways to recognize resistance to compassion for and from others
  • Describe physiological substrates of concentration and how this helps manage stress and anxiety
  • Describe current research studies on the effects and effectiveness of compassion practices

Please review the following information for your profession

CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, email CCARE at CompassionEducation@stanford.edu. For questions about CE, email Spiritual Competency Academy at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.

Compassion Community Monthly Gathering | December

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Have you participated in compassion training at CCARE or elsewhere? Are you looking for a supportive community to fuel or amplify your compassion practice? We gather each month on Zoom to reinforce our knowledge, refresh our practice, and renew our dedication to creating a more compassionate world.

These live, community-building events are free and open to the global compassion community. No recording will be available. Please register to receive the private Zoom link for the event. PLEASE NOTE: this month the event will be held on the second Thursday.

Thursday, December 12, 2024 | 5:30-6:30 pm PT | 8:30-9:30 pm ET

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Compassion Community Monthly Gathering | November

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Have you participated in compassion training at CCARE or elsewhere? Are you looking for a supportive community to fuel or amplify your compassion practice? We gather each month on Zoom to reinforce our knowledge, refresh our practice, and renew our dedication to creating a more compassionate world.

These live, community-building events are free and open to the global compassion community. No recording will be available. Please register to receive the private Zoom link for the event. PLEASE NOTE: this month the event will be held on the third Thursday.

Thursday, November 21, 2024 | 5:30-6:30 pm PT | 8:30-9:30 pm ET

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Compassion Community Monthly Gathering | October

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Have you participated in compassion training at CCARE or elsewhere? Are you looking for a supportive community to fuel or amplify your compassion practice? Join the CCARE Compassion Alumni Community. We gather each month to reinforce our knowledge, refresh our practice, and renew our dedication to creating a more compassionate world.

These live, community-building events are free and open to the global compassion community. No recording will be available. Please register to receive the private Zoom link for the event.

Thursday, October 31, 2024 | 5:30-6:30 pm PT | 8:30-9:30 pm ET

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CCARE Compassion Alumni Community

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Have you participated in compassion training at CCARE or elsewhere? Are you looking for a supportive community to fuel or amplify your compassion practice? Join the CCARE Compassion Alumni Community. We gather each month to reinforce our knowledge, refresh our practice, and renew our dedication to creating a more compassionate world.

These live, community-building events are free and open to the global compassion community. No recording will be available. Please register to receive the private Zoom link for the event.

Thursday, September 26, 2024 | 5:30-6:30 pm PT | 8:30-9:30 pm ET

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CCARE Compassion Alumni Community

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Have you participated in compassion training at CCARE or elsewhere? Are you looking for a supportive community to fuel or amplify your compassion practice? Join the CCARE Compassion Alumni Community. We gather each month to reinforce our knowledge, refresh our practice, and renew our dedication to creating a more compassionate world.

These live, community-building events are free and open to the global compassion community. No recording will be available. Please register to receive the private Zoom link for the event.

Thursday, August 29, 2024 | 5:30-6:30 pm PT | 8:30-9:30 pm ET

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8-Week Compassion Course

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  • SPRING SESSION A | April 1 – May 20, 2025
  • 8 TUESDAYS | 4 pm – 6 pm PDT
  • INSTRUCTOR | Shandra LaMotte
  • REGISTRATION FEE | $425 (includes course instruction, online materials, and guided meditation recordings)
  • CE CREDITS | $175 if applicable
  • REGISTER NOW | CLICK HERE
 
Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online is designed to help you develop the skills of (self)compassion, (self)awareness, reflection, meditation and more, skills that are anchored in evidence-based practices. Cultivating foundational contemplative practices and and connecting to your heart through Presence and Awareness is at the core of this 8-week online course.

There is a correlation between compassion and personal well-being. Research suggests that as we become more aware of ‘being’ with ourselves in a compassionate way, we gradually begin to recognize and experience a more fully integrated sense of connection with our deeper core values and intentions. To directly embody and experience the benefits of cultivating and anchoring attention in our body and heart, however, necessitates learning how to train and incline the mind towards a more compassionate, resilient, and authentic life. This requires a rebalancing of our over-developed habit of ‘doing’ with one of ‘being.’

Participants in this 8-week course work with contemplative practices for at least 20 minutes in each class session. By actively engaging in the practices to cultivate greater awareness and hone new skills for emotional self-regulation, we learn how to connect to ourselves first and drop from our head into our heart. As an entry point, Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online integrates the “Alphabet of the Heart,” a mnemonic created by Dr. James Doty, CCARE Founder and Director.
REGISTER NOW

Questions?

If you have questions after reading our Compassion Courses FAQs, please email CompassionEducation@stanford.edu.
 

Continuing Education (CE) Credits

If you are an LCSW, LEP, LMFT, LPCC, RN, or licensed psychologist, you can earn 14 CE credits for your Compassion Course for a fee of $175. It is the sole responsibility of the participant to attend the entire class meetings, always have their video on, participate in the class, and submit a separate course evaluation form at the end of the final class. No partial CE credit is available if more than one class is missed.

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Apply basic mindfulness skills and utilize mindfulness meditation to stay present and heartful to self and others
  • Apply learned compassion skills as a response to everyday needs and demands in personal and professional settings
  • Utilize compassion practice with oneself and others for emotional regulation in the face of distress
  • Utilize cognitive re-framing with oneself and others from the compassionate stance of common humanity
  • Describe the difference between compassion and empathetic distress, and how empathic distress leads to burnout
  • Utilize evidence-based self-compassion meditation practices in the context of personal and professional relationships
  • List three sources of resistance to the development of self-compassion
  • Explain three ways to recognize resistance to compassion for and from others
  • Describe physiological substrates of concentration and how this helps manage stress and anxiety
  • Describe current research studies on the effects and effectiveness of compassion practices

Please review the following information for your profession

CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, email CCARE at CompassionEducation@stanford.edu. For questions about CE, email Spiritual Competency Academy at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.

 

Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online

Class Details

  • SPRING SESSION A | April 1 – May 20, 2025
  • 8 TUESDAYS | 4 pm – 6 pm PDT
  • INSTRUCTOR | Shandra LaMotte
  • REGISTRATION FEE | $425 (includes course instruction, online materials, and guided meditation recordings)
  • CE CREDITS | $175 if applicable
  • REGISTER NOW | CLICK HERE
 
Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online is designed to help you develop the skills of (self)compassion, (self)awareness, reflection, meditation and more, skills that are anchored in evidence-based practices. Cultivating foundational contemplative practices and and connecting to your heart through Presence and Awareness is at the core of this 8-week online course.

There is a correlation between compassion and personal well-being. Research suggests that as we become more aware of ‘being’ with ourselves in a compassionate way, we gradually begin to recognize and experience a more fully integrated sense of connection with our deeper core values and intentions. To directly embody and experience the benefits of cultivating and anchoring attention in our body and heart, however, necessitates learning how to train and incline the mind towards a more compassionate, resilient, and authentic life. This requires a rebalancing of our over-developed habit of ‘doing’ with one of ‘being.’

Participants in this 8-week course work with contemplative practices for at least 20 minutes in each class session. By actively engaging in the practices to cultivate greater awareness and hone new skills for emotional self-regulation, we learn how to connect to ourselves first and drop from our head into our heart. As an entry point, Cultivate a Compassionate Heart – Live/Online integrates the “Alphabet of the Heart,” a mnemonic created by Dr. James Doty, CCARE Founder and Director.
REGISTER NOW

Questions?

If you have questions after reading our Compassion Courses FAQs, please email CompassionEducation@stanford.edu.
 

Continuing Education (CE) Credits

If you are an LCSW, LEP, LMFT, LPCC, RN, or licensed psychologist, you can earn 14 CE credits for your Compassion Course for a fee of $175. It is the sole responsibility of the participant to attend the entire class meetings, always have their video on, participate in the class, and submit a separate course evaluation form at the end of the final class. No partial CE credit is available if more than one class is missed.

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Apply basic mindfulness skills and utilize mindfulness meditation to stay present and heartful to self and others
  • Apply learned compassion skills as a response to everyday needs and demands in personal and professional settings
  • Utilize compassion practice with oneself and others for emotional regulation in the face of distress
  • Utilize cognitive re-framing with oneself and others from the compassionate stance of common humanity
  • Describe the difference between compassion and empathetic distress, and how empathic distress leads to burnout
  • Utilize evidence-based self-compassion meditation practices in the context of personal and professional relationships
  • List three sources of resistance to the development of self-compassion
  • Explain three ways to recognize resistance to compassion for and from others
  • Describe physiological substrates of concentration and how this helps manage stress and anxiety
  • Describe current research studies on the effects and effectiveness of compassion practices

Please review the following information for your profession

CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, email CCARE at CompassionEducation@stanford.edu. For questions about CE, email Spiritual Competency Academy at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.

 

CCARE Compassion Alumni Community | October

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Have you participated in compassion training at CCARE or elsewhere? Are you looking for a supportive community to fuel or amplify your compassion practice? Join the CCARE Compassion Alumni Community. We gather each month to reinforce our knowledge, refresh our practice, and renew our dedication to creating a more compassionate world.

These live, community-building events are free and open to the global compassion community. No recording will be available. Please register to receive the private Zoom link for the event.

Thursday, October 26, 2023 | 5:30-6:30 pm PT | 8:30-9:30 pm ET

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Applied Compassion is Changing the World

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Join us for this live online event and learn about the Applied Compassion Training (ACT) projects and people making a difference around the world!

Hosted by the ACT Founders together with ACT participants and alumni (listed below).

CCARE’s Applied Compassion Training is an 11-month certificate program for people who recognize the urgent need for compassion in today’s world. ACT prepares people to bring tangible compassionate action into their personal development, professions, communities, institutions, and lives.

During our live event you will have the opportunity to:

  • Learn about the unique approach of CCARE’s Applied Compassion Training (ACT)
  • Meet the ACT Founders and Directors, along with several ACT Participants and Alumni
  • Hear how ACT Ambassadors are changing the world through Applied Compassion, one project at a time.

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 | 5-7 pm Los Angeles | 8-10 pm New York | free online

RSVP now to receive the private Zoom link.

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Distinguished Speaker | Monica Worline, PhD

Dr. Worline is a collaborating research scientist at CCARE and the faculty leader of the Magnify Immersion Program at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Magnify is an award-winning, one-of-a-kind immersion program for undergraduates who learn the science and practice of thriving organizations in an intensive action learning format. Dr. Worline is also part of the core faculty at the University of Michigan’s Center for Positive Organizations (CPO), and Founder and CEO of EnlivenWork. Her groundbreaking research featured in the seminal book, Awakening Compassion at Work, details the impact of Applying Compassion within organizations in ways that can be applied to other systems including communities, groups, and families.

ACT Panelists | Their Capstone Projects

Cyndi Weekes Bradley, MAT | Bridging the Gap Between Racism and Humanity in the Field of Education

Jessica Brown | Transformational Eating: Using Self-Compassion to Heal Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders

Brooke Cassoff | Diabetes Sangha and Self-Compassion Training for People with Diabetes

Sounak Chakrabarty | Mindfulness and Neuroscience-based Compassionate Leadership for Corporate Leaders in India

Atul Garg, MA | Suncoast, PACE Storytime: Art, Compassion & Magic

Ruth Gottfried, PhD | Compassion Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress

Shashu Habtu | Mindfulness and Compassion for individuals impacted by the war in Ethiopia

Xiadani Juarez-Diaz | Under the Same Dream

Jim Micheletti | Corrections and the Literacy of Compassion for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Individuals

Noelle O’Dwyer | Bringing Awareness to Compassion and Care in Further Education and Training (FET)

Cate Schweikert | How to maintain your passion with compassion for healthcare providers

Peter Winfield | Growth After Trauma: The Self Compassion Project

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 | 5-7 pm Los Angeles | 8-10 pm New York | free online

RSVP now to receive the private Zoom link.

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Applied Compassion Training | OPEN HOUSE

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Join us for our live online OPEN HOUSE for Applied Compassion Training (ACT), and learn about the ACT projects and people making a difference around the world!

Hosted by Dr. James Doty, CCARE Founder and Director, and the ACT Co-Founders, together with ACT participants and alumni (listed below).

Real People. Real Projects. Real Life.


CCARE’s Applied Compassion Training is an 11-month certificate program for people who recognize the urgent need for compassion in today’s world. ACT prepares people to bring tangible compassionate action into their personal development, professions, communities, institutions, and lives.

During our live online OPEN HOUSE, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Learn how Applied Compassion is changing the world, with Dr. James Doty.
  • Meet the Co-Founders of ACT, Robert Cusick, Neelama Eyres, and Monica Hanson.
  • Understand more about the ACT program.
  • Find out how participating in ACT and delivering a Capstone Project transformed current participants and alumni.
  • Discover the impact of Applied Compassion Capstone Projects around the globe.

Friday, September 30, 2022 | 9-11 am Los Angeles | 16:00-18:00 UTC | free online

RSVP now to receive the private Zoom link.

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ACT Panelists | Their Capstone Projects

Al’ai Alvarez, MD | Meditate2Resilience: Reducing Emergency Room Physician Burnout
Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Well-Being and Co-Lead Human Potential Team, Department of Emergency Medicine, Co-Chair, Physician Wellness Forum, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

Cyndi Weekes Bradley, MAT | Bridging the Gap Between Racism and Humanity in the Field of Education
Founder and CEO, The Equity Process, a Strategic Planning, Social Justice, and Racial Equity Consultancy and Organization for School Leaders and Systems, USA

Brooke Cassoff | Self-Compassion Training for People with Diabetes
DEI Expert Ally for Hiring Onboarding and Co-Founder of the Diabetes Sangha, USA

Dr. Albert Celoza | Educating Students in Compassion
Executive Director, Arizona Interfaith Movement, USA

Pinuccia Contino | From Wholeness to Purpose
Manager and Regulator, European Commission, Belgium

Suzanne DeLine | Compassion@Work: The Steps to Building It, and Enjoying Its Benefits
Founder and Chief Strategist, Digital Artisans LLC, Author at EM Marketing, Compassion Advocate, USA

Xiadani Juarez Diaz | Under the Same Dream
Family Resource Center Coordinator-Lead, Mental Health Specialist and Youth Advocate with Allcove, Gardner Health Services, Gardner Specialty Service Center, USA

Atul Garg, MA | Suncoast, PACE Storytime: Art, Compassion & Magic
Legacy Corps for Veterans and Military Families Program Coordinator, Empath Health, USA

Ruth Gottfried, PhD | Compassion Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress
Head M.A.A.T. Program in Dance Movement Therapy, The David Yellin Academic College of Education, Secondary Trauma Expert and Author, Israel

Belinda Haan | Real Motherhood, Compassion Practices, Tools and Self-Reflection for Mothers
Mindfulness Teacher, Founder: The Motherhood Gathering & Co-host of Reclaiming Ourselves Podcast, Australia

Danna Hoshino | Compassionate Leadership in Action
Instructional Designer and Corporate Consultant, USA

Sanjay Khoosal | care4YOU Towards a Common Humanity, Compassion During an Imbalance of Power
Head of People Development and Employment Equity, Human Resources, Netcare Limited, South Africa

Lee Lipton | Mindful Moments in Medicine: a Toolbox for Stress Relief
Exercise Physiologist, Physician Assistant and Corporate Wellness Manager, USA

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8-week Compassion Course | 5-7 pm PT

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Cultivating the Heart – Live/Online

Course Description

When you drop from your head into your heart, life becomes clear and purposeful.

  • Are you looking for more calm, focus and feelings of inner peace in your life?
  • Are you interested in learning about evidence-based practices that can provide you with ways to investigate your own experience and build mindfulness in the service of cultivating a compassionate response to life’s everyday challenges?
  • Do you want to build resilience from the inside out?

Cultivating the Heart – Live/Online is designed to help you develop the skills of (self)compassion, (self)awareness, reflection, meditation and more, skills that are anchored in evidence-based practices. Cultivating foundational contemplative practices and finding root in your heart through Presence and Awareness is at the core of this 8-week online course.

There is a correlation between compassion and personal well-being. Research suggests that as we become more aware of ‘being’ with ourselves in a compassionate way, we gradually begin to recognize and experience a more fully integrated sense of connection with our deeper core values and intentions. To directly embody and experience the benefits of cultivating and anchoring attention in the body and heart, however, necessitates learning how to train and incline the mind towards a more compassionate, resilient, and authentic life. This requires a rebalancing of our over-developed habit of ‘doing’ with one of ‘being.’

Over the course of 8 weeks, participants actively work with contemplative practices for at least 20 minutes in each class session. By engaging in the practice to cultivate greater awareness and hone new skills for emotional self-regulation, we learn how to connect to ourselves first. As an entry point, Cultivating the Heart – Live/Online integrates the “Alphabet of the Heart,” a mnemonic created by James Doty MD, CCARE Founder and Director.

Class Details

  • 8 Wednesdays with Britta Eskey and Lee Eskey | SEPT 28 – NOV 16, 2022
  • 5-7 pm Los Angeles | 8-10 pm New York (live only – no recordings available)
  • Registration fee | $425 (Stanford STAP funds eligible)

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Questions?

If you have questions after reading our Compassion Courses FAQs, please email CompassionEducation@stanford.edu.

Experience Applied Compassion Training | ACT

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Experience Applied Compassion Training in an Interactive Session

Join CCARE’s Founder and Director, Dr. James Doty, and ACT’s Co-Founders for a 90-minute interactive session to learn more about the Applied Compassion Training (ACT) program and experience its profound power and potential.

  • Learn about the importance of Applied Compassion with Dr. Doty
  • Meet ACT Co-Founders Robert Cusick, Neelama Eyres, and Monica Hanson
  • Experience a compassion-based practice designed to increase understanding of our common humanity and bridge differences
  • Engage in an interactive process of Applied Compassion
  • Understand more about CCARE’s ACT program
  • Discover the impact of Applied Compassion around the globe

Please RSVP below to receive the Zoom link for this free live online event

Applied Compassion Training (ACT) is an 11-month certificate program for people who recognize the urgent need for compassion in today’s world. ACT prepares people to bring tangible compassionate action into their personal development, professions, communities, institutions, and lives.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. -The Dalai Lama

Tuesday | AUG 23 | 5-6:30 pm Los Angeles | 8-9:30 pm New York

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CCARE Compassion Alumni Community | September

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Have you participated in compassion training at CCARE or elsewhere? Are you looking for a supportive community to fuel or amplify your compassion practice? Join the CCARE Compassion Alumni Community. We gather each month to reinforce our knowledge, refresh our practice, and renew our dedication to creating a more compassionate world.

These live, community-building events are free and open to the global compassion community. No recording will be available. Please register to receive the private Zoom link for the event.

Thursday, September 28, 2023 | 5:30-6:30 pm PT | 8:30-9:30 pm ET

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Applied Compassion Training | ACT 2023

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Applied Compassion Training (ACT) is an 11-month deep dive into the embodied experience of becoming a compassion change agent.

ACT 2023 Registration is Closed | JOIN THE WAITLIST
The ultimate aim of Applied Compassion Training is to prepare people who feel an urgency to bring forth and integrate compassionate action into their occupations, professions, communities and institutions, as well as into their personal development.

Unlike other teacher training programs, ACT offers participants a chance to apply compassion in practice during the program and use the dialogue, skill-building, and tools in real-time. Participants who successfully complete ACT will be in a variety of fields. ACT creates AMBASSADORS of compassion in many fields, including educators, facilitators, consultants, physicians, nurses, coaches, and leaders of all kinds. Ambassadors of Applied Compassion will be representatives, advocates, and stewards of compassion. ACT helps bring forth people who will embody a high level of mastery and expertise in facilitating a compassionate response in real-world settings. Graduates will leave this training with the mindset, heart set, and skillset they need to effectively work for and sustain transformative change within a multiplicity of community and organizational settings.

Training Description

Over the course of this 11-month training, we will meet via Zoom for three immersion retreats: at the beginning, midpoint, and end of the training. Due to the experiential and highly-interactive nature of these retreats, live online participation is required.

In the intervening months, between the immersion retreats, trainees will participate in two monthly Zoom sessions and 1:1 Zoom meetings with an assigned program adviser. The first monthly online session is a didactic/practice session. It combines teaching and experiential processes associated with that month’s specific module. The second online session will give trainees an opportunity to bring questions, challenges, and real-world issues into a smaller group and receive direct coaching from the core faculty and other guest subject-matter experts.

A key component of ACT will include a capstone project that each trainee will design, execute, and present with the support of their ACT teams, along with support and guidance from core faculty and other guest subject-matter experts.

Organizational Funding for Professional Development

Many ACT participants have successfully requested funding from their organizations, companies, or institutions to pay for their participation. To support you in making this request, we developed a packet designed for decision makers. It includes a sample letter that has been used to request funding from organizations.

What’s Involved?

  • Three Online Immersion Retreats
    1 | Becoming an Ambassador of Applied Compassion
    2 | Compassionate Coaching, Communication and Facilitation Skills
    3 | Applied Compassion in Action, Capstone Presentations, and Graduation
  • Monthly Online Sessions with Subject-Matter Experts | Examples include: Mindfulness in the Service of Compassion™, Resiliency, A Skillful Recognition and Response to Triggers, Unconscious Bias and Compassion, Compassionate Leadership, Designing Systems for Compassion, and Applied Compassion: Bringing It into the World.
  • Applied Compassion Capstone Project | Designed, executed, and delivered with support from other ACT team members and guidance from core faculty and guest subject-matter experts.
  • Collaborative Learning Community | Ongoing engagement with a creative and dynamic group of colleagues committed to bringing compassion into real-world settings as a core motivating intention and goal. Graduates of ACT will be certified as Educators, Facilitators, Consultants, and Ambassadors of Applied Compassion.

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A Meng-Wu Lecture Featuring Prof. Dr. Tania Singer

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About the Event

During the first hour, Prof. Dr. Tania Singer will present: From Inner Change Towards a More Caring Economy: The Neuroscience of Motivation, Care and Compassion.

Abstract: In the last decades our society has faced many global and economic problems that call for new solutions and change. Emerging fields such as affective-social and contemplative neurosciences as well as neuro-economics have produced promising findings that can help inform such necessary changes as well as inform new economic models which integrate psychological and biological knowledge about human motivation and decision making. For example, plasticity research has suggested that training of mental capacities such as compassion and care is indeed effective and leads to changes in brain functions associated with increases in mental health, well-being and pro-social behaviors and cooperation. Evidence for the trainability and alterability of what economists have postulated being fixed and context-insensitive preferences questions classic views of homo economicus and call for the development of new decision-making models based on care and affiliation and not only on consumption motivation. In this talk, she will introduce the idea of caring economics and review findings from two mental training studies: the Resource Project, a large-scale multi-methodological one-year secular mental training program that aims at the cultivation of attention and social skills such as empathy, compassion and perspective taking, and the CovSocial Project, focusing on assessing changes in mental health, social cohesion and resilience throughout the Covid19 pandemic in 2020/21/22. She will show how such mental trainings can indeed foster resilience and social skills as well as cooperation and human prosociality. Further she will show how 10-weeks mental online training including 12-minutes daily partner-based practices, so called Contemplative Dyads, can actually reduce increasing levels of loneliness and stress elicited by multiple consecutive lock-downs during the Covid19 pandemic and increase social connectedness and resilience. She will discuss these findings in light of their relevance for caring economics models aiming at reintroducing secular ethics and care in society emphasizing the need to step into a global responsibility through personal change.

Following the lecture, she and Dr. James Doty, CCARE founder and director, will discuss these topics and answer questions from the audience. A video of the event will be available on CCARE’s YouTube Channel and website the following week.

About Prof. Dr. Tania Singer

Tania Singer is the scientific head of the Social Neuroscience Lab of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany. After doing her PhD in Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, she became a Post-doctoral Fellow at the same institution, at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, and at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in London. In 2006, she first became Assistant Professor and later Inaugural Chair of Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics as well as Co-Director of the Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research at the University of Zurich. Between 2010 and 2018 Tania Singer was the director of the department of Social Neurosciences at the Max Planck Institute of Cognitive and Human Development in Leipzig. Tania Singer is author of more than 150 scientific articles and book chapters and edited together with Mathieu Ricard the two books Caring Economics (2015) and Power and Care (2019).

Her research focus is on the hormonal, neuronal, and developmental basis of human sociality, empathy and compassion, and their malleability through mental training. Learning from contemplative traditions from the East, she has initiated and headed one of the largest meditation-based secular mental training studies on compassion, the ReSource project. Linking such findings to the field of (neuro)economics, she developed a Caring Economics approach, developing new models of economy based on care and social cohesion. She is also heading the CovSocial project, a large-scale study on stress, resilience and social cohesion in Berliners during the corona crisis. Throughout her life she has explored how inner change can bring about societal change putting science in the service of societal transformation. Web: taniasinger.de

Registration

FREE ONLINE REGISTRATION | Please bring a paper or electronic copy of your confirmation email for entrance to the event.

Directions & Parking

View the Park James Hotel on Google Maps | Valet parking at hotel for $10 fee

Disability-Related Accommodations and Services

Please email CCARE staff at CCARE_info@stanford.edu with requests for disability-related accommodations.

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