The Applied Compassion Training, formerly offered through CCARE, was an 11-month program that centered around the Principles of Applied Compassion and introduced participants to the science of compassion. A major emphasis of ACT was supporting participants to develop a Capstone Project, designed to apply compassion to a real-world issue in their organization, community, or other settings (e.g., burnout in the workplace).
The CCARE Compassion Lab is a new 4-month immersive living laboratory for skill-building and transformation in compassion, designed to respond to the challenges of today’s divisive world. Participants will strengthen the core competencies of compassion (ie: compassionate dialogue, emotional regulation, perspective-taking, conflict navigation, collaboration, and bridge building skills) through practice-based methods and interactive compassion experiments. CCL provides real-time, simulated practice in a collaborative and supportive environment of peer-compassion pods. The CCARE Compassion Lab is designed to help participants sustain compassion as a way of life, especially in the face of reactivity, conflict, or difficulty.
A culminating aspect of the CCARE Compassion Lab, the Compassion Blueprint, integrates evidence-based practices from neuroscience, psychology, and contemplative traditions with lived experience. Based on program insights and transformation, participants will develop a practical blueprint for reliably living compassion in the world.