Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Training

Live Online Training
March 31; April 7, 14, 21, 28; May 5, 12 and 19, 2021
5:30–7:30pm EST/EDT (all days)

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 16 CE contact hours

Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an 8-week program (weekly 2-hour classes) developed at the Stanford School of Medicine by Thupten Jinpa, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s translator, and a team of psychologists and neuroscientists interested in compassion as a pathway to connection. Research suggests CCT results in improved awareness, less stress reactivity, enhanced wellbeing and increased ease with oneself and others. While CCT offers benefits to all interested participants, it was developed specifically keeping in mind the needs of keystone professions serving the public good under challenging circumstances. 

CCT benefits healthcare professionals gain stress resilience and cultivate a more sustainable sense of compassion resulting in an improved ability to handle everyday challenges. The course consists of lectures and group discussion designed to support the inner capacity to care for ourselves and others, interactive exercises and informal practices to increase mindfulness and joy in everyday life, and a structured sequence of evidence based guided meditations aimed at cultivating a warm-hearted and robust responsiveness while protecting against the side effects of empathic distress and burnout.

No previous experience is needed – CCT is designed to meet you where you are. 

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Apply basic mindfulness skills and utilize mindfulness meditation to stay present to self and others
• Apply learned compassion skills as a response to everyday needs and demands in personal and professional settings
• Utilize compassion practice with oneself and others for emotional regulation in the face of distress
• Utilize cognitive re-framing with oneself and others from the compassionate stance of common humanity
• Explain the differences between empathy and compassion
• Describe how empathetic distress vs. compassion collapse leads to burnout
• Utilize evidence-based self-compassion meditation practices in the context of personal and professional relationships
• List three (3) sources of resistance to the development of self-compassion
• Explain three (3) ways to recognize resistance to compassion for and from others
• Describe current research studies on the effects and effectiveness of compassion practices

Bornali Basu, PhD

Bornali Basu is a licensed psychologist on the clinical faculty at the Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in New York focused on compassion and mindfulness based approaches to cultivating joy. She completed her internship and a post-doctoral fellowship in cardiac psychology at the NYU School of Medicine, and previously was a senior staff psychologist at Bellevue Hospital where she founded, and was the Director of the Mind-Body Program. She is dually certified to teach CCT through the Center for Compassion & Altruism Research & Education at the Stanford School of Medicine, and the Compassion Institute.

Note: Registration for this event is limited to 28 attendees. 

To register for this seminar, please log in to our Online Registration Portal and select this event from the "All Events & Programs" tab, under the "Conferences and Events" section.

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General Admission: $395.00

Discounts:

• NYU Silver Alumni (Graduate and Undergraduate degrees): $296.25
• NYU Faculty & Staff: $296.25
• NYU Silver Post-Master's Certificate Program Alumni: $335.75
• NYU Silver Current Field Instructors: $296.25
• NYU Silver Retired Full Time Faculty: $296.25
• NYU Silver Current Students: $99.99
• Non-NYU Current MSW and PhD Students: $199.99
• 3+ From Same Agency: $296.25
• Veterans: $197.50

If after registering, you determine that you can no longer attend this event, The Office of Global and Lifelong Learning will issue refunds on the following basis:

• Refund requests made on or before March 23 (by midnight): full refund
• Refund requests made on or before March 26 (by midnight): 50% refund
• Refund requests made on or after March 29: no refund

If this event is cancelled, all registrants will be fully reimbursed. To withdraw from and be reimbursed for this event, please complete the event withdrawal form.

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 16 Continuing Education Contact Hours.

55 jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education provider in the states of New York (though NYU Silver is NYSED CE approved in NYS) and West Virginia, unless the event is outside of West VA. ACE only approves individual courses in New Jersey, though NYU Silver is CSWE-accredited and therefore accepted for licensed NJ professionals. Here is a full list of statutes related to social work CE.

Special Accommodations:
Students requiring accommodations have the opportunity to make these known upon registering or by writing to silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Addressing Grievances:
For information on our grievance and complaint procedures, contact 212.998.9099 or silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

NYU Silver School of Social Work
Office of Global and Lifelong Learning
1 Washington Square North, G08
New York, NY 10003

Email: silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu
Phone: 212.998.5973
Fax: 212.995.4497