Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT®): April 14 - 15 & May 19- 20, 2017
The CHA Center for Mindfulness & Compassion (in Somerville, MA) is pleased to offer the first New England-based CBCT 2-Weekend Training in partnership with Emory University. CBCT® (Cognitively-Based Compassion Training) is a meditation-based method for cultivating well-being and aims to help grow and sustain a genuine compassionate responsiveness. CBCT is a 12-year-old highly researched program that has been demonstrated to create a Culture of Compassion and help to avoid burnout, and lead to increased resilience to stress, improved empathetic accuracy, decreased depression and loneliness, and increased hopefulness. Click here for more information.
This CBCT® opportunity offer tools to expand compassion toward wider and wider circles. The practices support the growth of a number of mental states and behaviors valued across cultures, such as kindness, gratitude, generosity, and warm-heartedness. CBCT® is a cognitively-based compassion training and meditation-based method that deliberately and systematically works to cultivate compassion. Through progressive exercises (beginning with the development of attentional stability and progressing through various analytical meditations), one gains insight into how one’s attitudes and behaviors support or hinder compassionate response. The practice of CBCT® intensifies the desire to help others, allowing compassion to become more natural and spontaneous in one’s everyday life.