Compassion Cultivation Training with Jose Alberto Fonseca Roa April 2020
Spanish
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, to increase your effectiveness and influence
- 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.

Jose Alberto Fonseca Roa
Since 2013, Alberto has been teaching workshops and giving conferences related to contemplative practice, aimed at the general public, private companies, and governmental and social organizations. He leads the meditation workshops at the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s (UNAM), Acatlan and Iztacala School of Higher Education, and is currently implementing an inter-institutional project to introduce meditation to vulnerable sectors of the population. He is leading another project to promote a more natural approach to death, as well as the creation of community support networks to help cope with bereavement and the end of life.