Training Compassion for Business and Leadership

Cultivate skills for enduring wellbeing and a renewed effectiveness and sense of purpose within the spheres of business and leadership. Enroll now in this comprehensive CBCT^® (Cognitively Based Compassion Training) program.

Overview

People and groups can’t truly thrive without compassion. The Training Compassion for Business and Leadership course delivers CBCT^®, a program that trains adults to strengthen attention, regulate emotions, and sustain compassion for themselves and others. This research-based course is for business professionals and leaders interested in bringing greater resilience and compassion into their work to enhance wellbeing and contribute to success. This course offers practical techniques and exercises to integrate compassion into daily life, fostering a caring organizational culture and strengthening leadership skills, teamwork, and trust.

How CBCT Works

In this Training Compassion for Business and Leadership course, you will be guided through CBCT’s carefully designed sequence of modules, each of which targets a specific aspect of compassion. You will start by nurturing a sense of safety and gradually build skills in attention, self-awareness, and emotion regulation, ultimately expanding your capacity for compassion toward yourself and others. Each module offers reflective exercises to encourage meaningful insights, guided formal practices to strengthen enduring capabilities, and informal practices to support the application of these skills and insights into your personal and professional lives.

Why Enroll?

Gain Tools to Support Your Work

Experience how compassion training can help you to manage low energy and high stress, improve trust and effectiveness with others, and navigate change and complexity with confidence.

Cultivate Greater Resilience and Compassion

Experience a comprehensive, proven method for training compassion, with full access to self-guided course materials, a resource library, guided meditations, a personal journal, and more.

Attend Live Sessions with Certified Teachers

Learn in community with others. Attend classes led by experienced teachers who facilitate deeper reflection, provide guidance, and offer support.

Engage Anytime, at Your Own Pace

Enjoy the flexibility to engage in self-guided lessons on your own schedule – make progress, review, reflect, and practice wherever you are.

Connect and Grow with Others

Share experiences with others in the compassion community and continue to gain support upon completion of your course with access to regular sessions led by certified teachers.

What You’ll Get

Research-based strategies for emotion regulation and ameliorating burnout
Practices to foster greater self-compassion and self-agency
Tools to better manage the ups and downs of daily work life
Methods to enhance understanding and connection with colleagues and clients
Techniques to discern effective and compassionate action within complex systems

A Program of Emory University

The Compassion U platform delivers Emory University’s CBCT^® (Cognitively Based Compassion Training) program, ensuring high-quality, research-based learning.

Curriculum

Introduction

Overview

Begin the compassion training journey. In the Overview, we deepen our understanding of what compassion is, why it is valuable, and CBCT’s approach to training it. We explore the relationship between compassion and resilience and engage in practices to strengthen self-regulation skills.

Module 1

Connecting to a Moment of Nurturance

Build a strong foundation and strengthen motivation. In Module 1, we connect to nurturing moments to elicit feelings of safety and deepen our appreciation for compassion. This module is considered foundational to CBCT, as it supports both the resilience and the motivation to train compassion.

Module 2

Developing Stable and Clear Attention

Learn practices to improve focus and resilience. In Module 2, we learn to hold our attention where we choose. We train the emotion regulation strategy of attention deployment, as we strengthen the ability to notice when attention is pulled, to redirect it, and to keep it where we want it to be.

Module 3

Enhancing Self-Awareness

Develop the skill of non-judgmental awareness. In Module 3, we learn to refrain from projecting, cultivate greater insight into our mental and emotional habits and gain greater flexibility in how we respond to them. This emotion regulation strategy is sometimes called self-distancing.

Introduction
Objective
Insight Activity 1: Catching the Spark
Storytelling
Insight Activity 2: Examining Our Emotional Scripts
Insight Activity 3: Non-judgmental Awareness
Insight Activity 4: Starting with Sensations
Self-assessment & Formal Practice
Informal Practice
Wrap-up

Module 4

Cultivating Self-Compassion – Part 1

Respond to setbacks and vulnerabilities with understanding and kindness. In Module 4, we employ the emotion regulation strategy of cognitive reappraisal to uproot patterns of excessive self-critism and harsh self-blame and foster greater understanding and kindness toward ourselves.

Introduction
Objective
Insight Activity 1: Talking to a Friend
Deeper Dive
Storytelling
Insight Activity 2: I’m Not The Only One
Insight Activity 3: Making Strengths Visible
Insight Activity 4: What We Can (and Cannot) Control
Self-assessment & Formal Practice
Informal Practice
Wrap-up

Module 5

Cultivating Self-Compassion – Part 2

Strengthen the ability to find meaning in challenges and vulnerabilities. In Module 5, we tap into self-agency by reappraising our setbacks, seeing them as opportunities for growth. In doing so, we offset feelings of helplessness and despair and foster a genuine sense of empowerment.

Introduction
Objective
Insight Activity 1: Opportunity for Growth
Storytelling
Insight Activity 2: Connecting to Our Values
Insight Activity 3: Adversity as a Gateway to Empathy and Compassion
Insight Activity 4: Making Self-agency Visible
Self-assessment & Formal Practice
Informal Practice
Wrap-up

Module 6

Expanding Our Circle of Concern

Extend a sense of connection to a widening group of people. In Module 6, we use cognitive reappraisal to identify with others and soften the hard line between ingroup and outgroup. We turn our attention from self to other to foster healthier relationships and more meaningful connections.

Introduction
Objective
Insight Activity 1: Step In, Step Out
Storytelling
Insight Activity 2: Connecting Through Our Shared Human Condition
Insight Activity 3: Distinguishing the Act From the Actor
Insight Activity 4: Appreciating Diversity
Self-assessment & Formal Practice
Informal Practice
Wrap-up

Module 7

Deepening Gratitude and Tenderness

Expand warm-heartedness to include a widening circle of people. In Module 7, we deepen awareness of our interdependence with others to dramatically expand feelings of gratitude and tenderness. Reflecting on the benefits of other-oriented attitudes strengthens our capacity for genuine connection.

Introduction
Objective
Insight Activity 1: Connecting to Feelings of Gratitude and Tenderness
Storytelling
Insight Activity 2: Seeing That We Depend on Others
Insight Activity 3: The Web of Interdependence
Insight Activity 4: Reducing Narrow Self-focus
Self-assessment & Formal Practice
Informal Practice
Wrap-up

Module 8

Harnessing the Power of Compassion

Introduction
Objective
Insight Activity 1: The Two Keys to Compassion
Storytelling
Insight Activity 2: What Are They Up Against
Insight Activity 3: The Most Pressing Concern in You Community, Society or World
Insight Activity 4: Creating a Ripple Effect
Self-assessment & Formal Practice
Informal Practice
Wrap-up

Module 9

What’s Next

Continue the journey. In What’s Next, we review the progress we have made, reflect on the CBCT skills, perspectives, and practices that we have found helpful, and set the intention to carry them forward. We chart our own path to bring compassion into being and an uncover our best next steps.