Featured Courses

The range of courses offered in the Featured Courses section of the Charter Education Institute stem from assisting individuals, teams and organizations around the world on understanding the mind and heart of a compassionate community and explore processes that create paths to design sustainable action plans to meet local, national and international challenges.  In addition, just as many of us engage in different circles of culture and society, so does the Charter for Compassion.  The Charter supports work in twelve sectors: art, business, education, environment, healthcare, interfaith (religion and spirituality), peace, science and research, social justice, social services, restorative justice, and women and girls.  Consequently, course work is being desired and implemented in each of these sectors.  

Vist this page periodically to see current listing of courses which usually change monthly or bi-monthly.

NEW!
Working Together Towards Harmony: Using Our Shared Humanity to Bridge Divides

Start date: January 6, 2020
Duration: 4 weeks
Cost: $30
Registration: Open!

Back by popular demand. Start the New Year with a commitment to social harmony. In the past two years, this course has attracted over five hundred participants from more than thirty countries. We are proud to offer it again.

The 4-week course brings together ideas from interfaith activists, Nobel peace prize laureates, modern psychologists, and ancient Indian seekers to create a unique recipe for working towards harmony. By the end of the course, participants should have created a list of concrete steps they can take to create more personal and social harmony.

In addition, participants will have access to like-minded participants from around the world, and Rev. Bergmann, who will answer questions and comments on a daily basis. Click here to learn more about the course

NEW!
Compassionate Integrity Training - January 2020

Start Date: Cohort 1 - January 15, 2020
                      Cohort 2 - January 16, 2020
Duration: 10 weeks
Registration: Opens December 9, 2019

Have you ever wondered how you could cultivate the compassion called for in the Charter or help others cultivate that compassion? Compassionate Integrity Training (CIT) is a great place to start!

CIT is a resiliency-informed program that cultivates human values as skills, so we can thrive as individuals, and a society, within a healthy environment.  By learning skills to calm our bodies and mind, becoming more emotionally aware, learning to practice compassion for ourselves and others, as well as engaging with compassion in complex systems, we can build towards compassionate integrity: the ability to live one’s life in accordance with one’s values with a recognition of common humanity, our basic orientation to kindness and reciprocity. Click here to learn more about the course.

NEW!
Compassionate Children: How to Cultivate Compassion for a Flawed Parent by Loving Yourself

Start date: February 24, 2020
Duration: 4 weeks
Cost: $30
Registration Opens: February 3, 2020

We all come from diverse cultures, backgrounds and ethnicities. We were also raised in various families of origin. Some grew up with two parents, some one, others lived with grandparents or other relatives. There are many who had stepparents (bonus parents), adoptive parents and even foster parents. With all the differences in our upbringings, those who are interested in this course have one thing in common. Your parental figures were not the ones you would have chosen for yourselves. You may have survived abuse, rejection, abandonment or neglect. You may still blame them or carry your own guilt and shame to this day. But that can change now. This course offers a way to cultivate compassion for you as well as your flawed parent. Understand how to love yourself regardless of the relationship you have or had with them. Learn how to reclaim your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health. Whether or not your parents ever change who they are, you can live your life in peace knowing you did your part. Click hear to read more about the course.

Smart From The Heart: How to Give Wisely and Well 

This online course includes pre-recorded instructors' videos, weekly lessons and activities, and discussion forums. It's fine to go at your own pace.

We will introduce you to our unique, integrated Head, Hands and Heart approach, teach you about your altruistic brain and help you discover your true Altruistic Archetype.  We will show you how to combine these into a powerful, personal Altruism Plan for 2020. You will join a community of Wise Altruists as we all work together to save the world and protect it wisely. We'd love to have you join us! Click here to learn more and register for the course.

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