Online Compassion Cultivation Training with Mary Doane
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.
Mary Doane
Mary Doane is Supervising Instructor of Education Programs at Zen Caregiving Project in San Francisco, where she develops course content and trains and mentors instructors. She served for ten years as a volunteer hospice caregiver. Mary has completed Buddhist Chaplaincy training at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and Being With Dying training for clinicians at Upaya Institute and Zen Center. Earlier, she studied socially engaged Buddhist practice with the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
Mary trained at Stanford University to teach CCT and has dual Instructor certification from the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford and from Compassion Institute (CI). She teaches throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.