Lee Eskey

Lee Eskey is a compassion educator, leadership trainer, and facilitator with more than 25 years of experience helping individuals and groups cultivate emotional awareness, healing, and compassion. A certified Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) instructor, he has taught CCT in numerous formats and settings, including higher education. He also co-developed Stanford CCARE’s Cultivate a Compassionate Heart course, which he taught from its inception.

Along with his wife, Britta, Lee is co-founder and co-director of COR, where he leads experiential workshops and leadership and facilitation trainings. His work integrates compassion with emotional maturity, mindful presence, somatic awareness, self-responsibility, and trauma-informed approaches. He has worked with therapists, educators, ministers, artists, and business leaders, helping them embody and facilitate compassion in their lives and work.

Lee is Chair of Acting at John Paul the Great Catholic University, where he also teaches Mindfulness and Compassion Cultivation. He has provided compassion training at the National College of Ireland and is passionate about bringing compassion education into Catholic higher education. He also lectures on Theology of the Body, Pope John Paul II’s holistic vision of the human person, and is completing certification through the Theology of the Body Institute.

Lee is a certified NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) trauma-informed practitioner, a Family Constellations facilitator, and a facilitator of Nonviolent Communication. He is also a founding board member of the nonprofit COR Community Foundation.