Upcoming Training Programs and Events
Accelerated Compassionate Leadership Certification Training
Next Three-week Online Cohort Begins January 30, 2025
Serves as Prerequisite for 2025 Compassionate Leadership Teacher Training
Compassionate Leadership Teacher Training
Applications Now Open
Opening Retreat May 6-9, 2025
Cultivating Awareness for Leaders and Life
6-Week Program – Live Online
Due to the impact of Hurricane Helene on our faculty, this program will be rescheduled for early 2025.
Compassionate Leadership Training and Curriculum
Let our decades of business, entrepreneurial, nonprofit, and contemplative experience put compassion into action at your organization using powerful, evidence-based compassionate leadership principles, experiential tools, and practices.
Like many leaders, you may want to operationalize compassionate leadership, and seek expert support to know how to do it, or where to start. The Center leverages its proprietary, proven Compassionate Leadership Model in all trainings and retreats, giving leaders and teams a simple, yet profound roadmap.
Our model works from the inside out, starting with self-compassion as the firm foundation from which to lead, moving to compassion for others in day-to-day leadership, and then acknowledging the wider circle of compassion encompassing common humanity, the greater good, and cultural values that set the compass for your organization.
Deliver proven positive impact on innovation, diversity/inclusion/belonging, well-being, financial returns, customer and employee retention, service quality, creativity, communication, and culture.
See how compassionate leadership creates meaningful and sustainable strategic advantage.
Compassionate Leadership Certification Training
Our eight-week and accelerated Compassionate Leadership Certification Training programs are designed to equip you with empowering tools and evidence-based practices to lead with compassion, courage, and confidence. The shift happens from the inside out. Using our proven Compassionate Leadership Training Framework and curriculum, participants begin with a focus on the inner self, move into the realm of relationships and organizational compassion, and then extend outward to systems change.
Learn more about our October Compassionate Leadership Certification Training
Learn more about our Compassionate Leadership in Global Health Certification Training
If you’d like to learn more about participating in these upcoming courses, click here to complete our program inquiry form.
Compassionate Leadership Teacher Training
If you are passionate and ready to lead this movement, join us for the inaugural global cohort of Compassionate Leadership Teacher Training. Learn the evidence-based tools, practices, and principles that will equip you to train and inspire leaders and changemakers to create lasting shifts. It’s time to bring our innate wisdom and the power of compassion to the forefront of leadership so that individuals, organizations, and systems can thrive.
This Teacher Training is for organizational learning and development and human resources professionals, leadership consultants and coaches, as well as leaders who want to create thriving organizations characterized by safety, connection, and belonging. You will be empowered to lead with clarity and confidence, fostering the change so needed in the world right now.
Our current Compassionate Leadership Teacher Training began on February 28, 2024. If you are interested in becoming a certified compassionate leadership teacher and participating in future trainings – Find out more now!
Organizational Trainings, Executive Retreats and Custom Curriculum
Introduction to Compassionate Leadership Workshops
Give your team the foundational business and scientific rationale for why compassionate leadership works, and the how-to practices that put compassion into action.
Compassionate Leadership Transformational Executive Retreat
A two or three day immersion for leadership covering all topics in the eight-week training, crafted to the specific needs of each organization and executive grouping.
Building a Community of Practice for Employees and Leaders
Working together we build customized programs with tools, techniques, trainings, and programs to operationalize compassion and compassionate leadership within your organization for lasting impact.
Customized in-depth modules for specific needs, including:
– Self-Compassion for Leaders and Teams
– Aligning Mission, Culture, and Values
– Systemic Racism and Unconscious Bias
– Psychological Safety and Mindset
– Organizational Resilience
– Effective Feedback
– Implementing Organizational Communities of Practice
– Custom Implementation Roadmaps for Organizations
Burnout Prevention in Healthcare
Burnout Prevention in Healthcare is an 8-week personal and professional development course based on a compassion training curriculum designed at the Stanford School of Medicine (Compassion Cultivation Training ©). This program is specifically customized for nurses, physicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals, and may be available for 12 CE’s upon successful course completion. Participants will be introduced to practical tools and techniques that can be integrated into their personal and work life, providing protection against an inherently stressful work environment while promoting a reconnection with professional meaning. Contact cfclprograms@gmail.com for pricing and scheduling information.
Learn more about Burnout Prevention in Healthcare here.
Customized Organizational Consulting
The significance of compassionate leadership only comes to fullness in its practice. Our decades of experience operating, managing, and consulting in the business world make us particularly well suited to apply the best practices of modern leadership, evidence-based science, and contemplative wisdom to your specific organization or team. We can assess the current state of compassionate leadership in your organization and team, and recommend specific policies, procedures, and actions to create an environment where compassionate leadership will thrive for you and your team.
Let’s talk about how compassionate leadership can contribute to your organization. For a confidential discussion about your requirements, please email cfclprograms@gmail.com.
Upcoming Events
Compassion Intensive
Our four-week Compassion Intensive is designed to introduce participants to the practice of compassion through evidence-based research, interactive exercises, personal reflection, and group discussions. It condenses key components of Compassion Cultivation Training© (CCT™), an 8-week training developed at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), and now housed at the Compassion Institute. Participants are introduced to the science of compassion, gain insight into their own experiences, and explore practices which support the unfolding of compassion in their personal and professional lives.
The next Compassion Intensive training cohort will take place in Fall of 2024.
Learn more about our four-week Compassion Intensive program.
Community Gatherings
Our mission advances compassionate methods of leadership by integrating best practices of modern leadership, evidence-based science, and contemplative wisdom. We accomplish this vision by offering a variety of community events aimed to resource and replenish compassionate leaders from across the globe.
We host a quarterly series of Global Compassion Community Gatherings for our global network of compassionate leaders to align, inspire, and ignite the collective hearts and minds needed to birth a more compassionate world. It is our intention to grow in connection, conversation, and community as we learn through thought leadership, research, and compassion-based curriculum from today’s top leaders in the field.
Click here to watch videos of past Global Compassion Community Gatherings.
Community Events Calendar
We also feature information on upcoming community events from other like-minded organizations across our compassion and mindfulness-based leadership network. We curate accessible and content-focused community events that are regularly virtual, free, and full of evidence-based leadership practices from some of the field’s most reputable organizations.
Browse our community events calendar.
If you’d like to contribute to our community events calendar, please contact our team for more information.