Compassion Cultivation Training© (CCT) 8-Week meditation course on Zoom

Start or deepen a meditation practice, and discover how compassion, for yourself and others, can help prevent burnout, build resilience, and increase happiness and your sense of connection with others.

October 28, November 4, 11, 18, 25, and December 2, 9, and 16 from 6:30 pm-8:30 pm US East Coast Time. Check the start time in your time zone .

Compassion Cultivation Training© with Brandel France de Bravo, a certified teacher of CCT™

What exactly is compassion? How does it differ from empathy? And how can compassion prevent burnout, build resilience, and increase happiness? All questions you can find answers to in this course!

Each of us is born with the capacity for compassion. It’s the seed within that has allowed the human species to evolve and flourish. Most scientists now agree that Darwin’s theories support “survival of the kindest,” not survival of the fittest!

Our instinct to care is what has allowed us to adapt to changing, even challenging circumstances, and thrive. However, the seed of compassion, like any seed, needs tending. We have to cultivate compassion because there are many forces in society that mitigate against it taking root and growing tall.

Meditation can help us nourish the soil and water the seedling. Similarly, learning to practice compassion in our day-to-day life is an exercise we can do that’s good for those we interact with, but also good for ourselves—like training at the gym. And just as there is sports science, there is compassion science!

Compassion Cultivation Training or CCT™ is an 8-week course developed at Stanford University by a team of contemplative scientists, psychologists and researchers. Its impact on participants has been extensively researched and the results published in peer-reviewed journals. People who’ve taken CCT report less anxiety, anger, and mind-wandering, and greater self-acceptance, calm and happiness.

The course meets on Zoom for 2 hours every week over 8 weeks, and each week’s theme and practices build on the previous week’s (this is why it’s important to miss no more than 2 of the 8 classes). Engaging and highly participatory, each class is comprised of two guided meditations, a brief lecture, group discussion, and small group exercises.

Participants have pre-recorded audio meditations for daily use at home that change each week according to the theme. Many optional learning resources are provided after each week’s class, including “real world” assignments for putting learning into practice. You choose the resources that match your interest and learning style!

I hope you’ll join me! Here’s a personal story about my own compassion journey to perhaps inspire you.

The ticket/registration price should never be a barrier to taking this course! Email me ([email protected]) about a tuition discount or scholarships.

Host or Publisher Brandel France de Bravo