Compassion Cultivation Training with Eva Hertz (Danish)
Danish
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
- 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.
Eva Hertz
Dr. Eva Hertz is clinical psychologist, researcher; lecturer and author based in Copenhagen, Denmark. For the past three decades she has worked with people’s psychological response to suffering due to somatic illness, e.g. people living with aids and cancer, people in palliative care and people suffering from stress and trauma. She is the founder of the Danish Center for Resilience. Her mission is to contribute to workplaces in which we perceive meaning, joy, connectedness and can stay resilient. Eva works with stress management, design and teaching of psychological resilience training programs in private and governmental organizations e.g. hospitals and the army. She has been a meditator for more than 40 years and has attended multiple retreats in Kopan Monastery, Katmandu.