[Downtown Dharma Listserve] I'm teaching Compassion Cultivation Training through the Center for Mindful Living this Fall

Dear sangha members,

I wanted to let you know about an online course I will be offering through the Center for Mindful Living (10% of tuition will go to CML), beginning in mid-October: Compassion Cultivation Training.© This 8-week course developed at Stanford University by a team of contemplative scholars, clinical psychologists, and researchers is taught at the Medical School and around the world by certified teachers. It is designed to strengthen your natural capacity for compassion, empathy and kindness—toward yourself and others—and increase resilience. Many who have taken Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT™) say that it has given them a sense of balance and allowed them to live with greater joy and intention.

There's been a lot of talk about empathy and compassion of late—who has these two qualities, who doesn't, and the need for compassionate leadership.  Months into the pandemic, physicians, nurses and other health professionals are complaining of burnout and compassion fatigue. Whether or not we're front-line workers, many of us worry that an empathy deficit is fueling our nation's divide. Could teaching people how to tap into their innate powers of compassion be the answer? In January of this year (seems like a lifetime ago, I know), The Washington Post published, "In an Angry America, a New Remedy Emerges: Compassion."

To find out more or register for the free 90-minute introduction to CCT on Zoom on Wednesday,  October 7,  from 6:30-8:00 pm (no obligation to take the 8-week course and you don't have to take the Intro to enroll in the 8-week course), go here. 

To find out more or register for the 8-week course on Wednesdays October 14-December 9 from 6:30-8:30 pm (no class on Nov 25th), taught through the Center for Mindful Living on Zoom,  go here.

And if you are a physician, nurse, physician assistant, social worker, psychologist, or case manager, you might want to take this same course with me at the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts where I can offer 14 CMEs/CEs for participating in the 8-week Compassion Cultivation Training. That course will be held on Zoom on Mondays October 19-December 7 from 6:30-8:30. To find out more or register for that course, go here.

Feel free to share with friends or colleagues and to write me at bravofrance@gmail.com to ask questions or to request a tuition reduction.  I don't want cost to be a barrier! You can read more about CCT at the Compassion Institute. 

I look forward too sitting with you all soon!

Brandel

 

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