Unlocking our best human qualities through the transformative power of compassion.
Our Mission
Our mission is to advance compassion as a guiding principle and active force to foster a more caring world.
Compassion is a bridge. Your gift today can be the bridge between someone’s suffering and their well-being.
Resourcing for Space Holders
Recording Available Now
Join us for a one hour FREE event focused on giving space to support those who support others. We know that many people in our community focus on giving back, lifting up and caring for those around them, and supporting others. It is easy for these caregivers to forget to offer care to themselves.
Our Work
We develop and deliver programs for individuals and organizations, designed to promote personal and societal well-being.
Systems Transformation
Improving outcomes by advancing the core value of compassion throughout institutions and sector-level systems.
Law Enforcement
Resilience, compassion, and leadership training for law enforcement.
Health
Compassion-based professional and leadership development for the health sector.
Education
Exploring ways to bring compassion training to educators and future generations.
What is Compassion?
The strength to be with suffering and the courage to take compassionate action.
Building Compassion From the Inside Out
An online program with Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. to support meaning, purpose and joy in your daily life.
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT™)
Our flagship 8-week program, developed at Stanford University and taught worldwide.
CCT™ Teacher Training
A certification program for those who aspire to teach CCT™ in their community.
Compassion Cultivation Training© (CCT™)
The original 8-week course, with Amanda D. Mahoney, M.A.
Compassion Cultivation Training© (CCT™)
Compassion Cultivation Training is an 8-week training course developed at Stanford University Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) by principal author and Compassion Institute Co-Founder Thupten Jinpa Ph.D with contributions from CI’s Founding Faculty. Taught by Erika Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Building Compassion From the Inside Out (BCFTIO)
Start your compassion journey by taking the self-paced foundational compassion course meant for everyone. Now available in English and Spanish.
Construyendo la Compasión desde Adentro Hacia Afuera
Un programa en línea de dos semanas con Thupten Jinpa, PhD. para apoyar el significado, propósito y alegría en tu vida cotidiana.
Entrenamiento en el Cultivo de la Compasion Online en Español
El Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) es un programa de ocho semanas diseñado para desarrollar las cualidades de compasión, empatía y bondad amorosa hacia uno mismo y hacia los demás, así como la resiliencia frente al burnout emocional. Con profesora Maria Paula Jimenez Palacio.
Find a Compassion Cultivation Training© (CCT™) Class
The original 8-week course, taught by our global network of certified CCT™ teachers in English and other languages.
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