Compassion is a skill, a basic capacity of the human heart that can be developed and expanded
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Compassion is the warm-hearted concern that unfolds when we witness the suffering of others and feel motivated to relieve it. Though witnessing others’ suffering can also lead to responses like distress or overwhelm or even pity, compassion is unique. It is positive, proactive, and energizing.
At this moment, you may be turning to compassion training to contribute to your own well-being, or because you want to create more trusting and harmonious relationships with friends or family. You may want to enhance your ability to focus in order to make better decisions. Perhaps you wish for a healthier culture at your place of work. You may engage in compassion training to find a path toward a more equitable and just world. What these goals have in common is one thing: flourishing. Flourishing is why any one of us will train in compassion, whether we seek it alone or together, or seek to extend it to individuals or groups. In this way, compassion training contributes to a healthier and more ethical world.
CBCT® (Cognitively-Based Compassion Training), one of North America's leading compassion training programs, was developed by Lobsang Tenzin Negi, PhD at Emory University in 2004, and has been found to be beneficial through research studies, and the personal experiences of thousands of participants worldwide.
Join us for this 8-week program on Tuesdays, September 5 - October 24th in-person.
Instructor: Leslie Langbert, Senior/Level 2 CBCT Instructor
Registration fee: $395. This includes instruction for the 8-week program, access to all supplemental materials including recorded guided meditations for home practice use during and after the program.
We are committed to making this program accessible to all in our community. A limited number of partial scholarships are available as needed, please contact us to inquire. We appreciate your full support, as it allows the Center for Compassion Studies to continue to sustain its valuable work for our collective community. In a time when many programs have increased their fees, we have not increased our registration fee since 2014.