Online Compassion Cultivation Training with Holly Costa and Tiffany Wong
English
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.
Holly Costa
After a 25 year career in technology and leadership, Holly has engaged in a vigorous professional transformation as a certified Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT™) instructor, . She hosts “Integrate Compassion”, offering compassion education courses and retreats, including evidence based approaches to cultivating compassion through sharing wisdom traditions and practical exercises. Integrate Compassion students find the courage in themselves to meet life with compassion and wisdom. Compassion for those supporting loved ones who suffer from mental health disorders and addiction issues is at the heart of her vision to offer this training.
Tiffany Lynn Wong
Tiffany Lynn Wong, MFA, is an instructor at the University of California Santa Cruz where she teaches courses on mindfulness, creativity, and ecology. She leads the Watsonville Insight Meditation group “Living Room Dharma” and has practiced with Laung Por Pasanno at Abhayagiri Monastery, Thanissaro Bhikkhu at Metta Forest Monastery, and Ajahn Chandako at the Redwood Hermitage. She originally completed CCT (Compassionate Cultivation Training) with the Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi and is mentored by Chris Basiletti in the Insight tradition. She is the recipient of a Contemplative Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation for her work as an educator that supports initiatives that foster basic human goodness in individuals and society. Her specialty is in providing educational innovators clear science-based strategies for integrating compassion into their policy, pedagogy, programming, and research.