Online Compassion Cultivation Training with Heather Bartholomew
English
CCT is a multi-week personal and professional development course designed at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education and taught around the world by Certified Facilitators. The program includes practical tools and exercises designed to enhance your awareness, compassion, and resilience.
CCT will support you to improve your relationships with friends, family, clients, patients, staff, and coworkers.
You’ll walk away from each CCT class with tools and practices you can immediately put to work. CCT will help you:
- Improve awareness
- Increase connection to others
- Decrease the distress you may feel in difficult situations
CCT is a two-hour weekly class that includes:
- Large and small group discussions to share learning experiences
- Guided meditation to improve awareness
- Listening and communication exercises to build compassionate interactions
You’ll also have daily homework of one guided meditation per day and informal practices to try as you go about your day.
For more information, visit: https://sites.google.com/view/hdbartholomew-fall2026cctclass/home
Heather Bartholomew
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it and embrace them.” —Rumi. I have been on this compassion journey for several decades now. As a longtime partner and now widow, a mother of four, friend, volunteer, and retired nurse in a variety of acute care settings, I have had the privilege of bringing compassion — in both its softer and its fiercer forms — to those around me. Learning to include myself within that same circle of compassion continues to be transformative for me, reshaping my relationship with both myself and others. The work of compassion cultivation is profoundly meaningful, and I continue to deepen my practice. I’m honored to be part of this community of teachers, and I look forward to journeying with you in cultivating compassion — for the suffering we each carry in our personal worlds and in the wider world we share.