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A Free Panel Discussion: Debunking the Myth of Compassion Fatigue

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Join us on August 18, 11:00 am Pacific

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Research suggests that compassion is a regenerative experience. Tapping into compassion often helps us continue to act compassionately. If that’s the case, how do we explain the real phenomenon of people experiencing what feels like “compassion fatigue”?

Join Compassion Institute Founding Faculty Dr. Erika Rosenberg and Senior Teacher Dr. Shireen Mansouri, for a conversation about how we can reframe and better understand compassion fatigue. By grasping the differences between empathy and compassion, we can better identify ways to counteract the effects of empathic distress.

This webinar will be geared toward a general audience. Attendees will leave the webinar equipped with mindfulness tools and reflective questions that will help strengthen your abilities to tap into compassion more often and with greater ease. Join us on Tuesday, August 18th at 11am Pacific Time.

Read about Erika Rosenberg, Ph.D. and Shireen Mansouri, MD, below.

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Erika Rosenberg, PhD, CCT Teacher

Erika Rosenberg, Ph.D.

About Erika

Shireen Mansouri, MD

About Shireen

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Erika Rosenberg, Ph.D., is a scientist and a meditation teacher. She is a senior investigator on the Shamatha Project, a comprehensive study of the effects of intensive meditation, at U.C. Davis’s Center for Mind and Brain.

Currently, Dr. Rosenberg serves as Founding Faculty at the Compassion Institute and has been a senior teacher at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education since 2009. In 2010 she offered the new CCT course at Google, Inc. and presented the CCT™ program to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Stanford University. Since then, she has been teaching CCT™ in regular and intensive formats worldwide.

Dr. Rosenberg is faculty at the Nyingma Institute of Tibetan Studies in Berkeley and has offered meditation trainings in diverse international venues such as Lerab Ling Monastery, Upaya Zen Center, Kripalu Yoga Center, the Telluride Institute, and Burning Man.

Dr. Rosenberg is co-author of the McGraw-Hill textbook, Psychology: Perspectives and Connections, now in its 4th edition, and numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles and chapters on facial expression, emotion, and meditation.
Shireen is a family physician who has worked the majority of her career in the Northwest Territories of Canada.  She first took CCT in 2014 and found it transformative for herself and her practice of medicine.  She became a certified CCT teacher in 2019.  Since then she has worked to bring Compassion Cultivation to health care communities.  She is excited to be exploring the ways that Compassion Cultivation can support health care providers to thrive in their work.  

She completed her medical degree at Queen’s University in Ontario Canada, and then obtained her training in Family Medicine in Newfoundland Canada.  She also has training in emergency medicine and obstetrical ultrasound.  Over her career she has provided full spectrum family practice including obstetrical care and remote medicine, and has worked in both Canada and the US.  She currently lives in Calgary Alberta and continues to work as a GP Oncologist and family physician in Yellowknife NWT Canada.  In her spare time she enjoys cooking and being out in nature with her husband.