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!
Where (and how) the Compassion Movement Gathers: Creating Sacred Space in Local Communities to nurture the heart
Tap a new resource for local compassion movements:
Four one-hour live seminars led by Teresa Cowan Jones
Start Date: August 26, 2019
Registration NOW OPEN
Gathering regularly to connect deeply with others in your local community is critical to create the inner fuel needed for social action and compassion work. This course offers profound yet simple, small and large group models of coming together to generate both inner resources and trust – the spiritual and social capital -- necessary for collaboration and collective leadership. The word sacred indicates that which we hold dear in terms of human meaning and values, and is the linguistic bridge needed to reunite us as humanity – and to our humanity – so that we can feel empowered by our unity in diversity. Take away this step-by-step practical guide of contemplative activism full of models and practices, in secular language, that help us more deeply connect with ourselves and each other. Join us in drawing upon secular, humanistic and wisdom traditions to find universal ways to nurture the human heart and build a social architecture for compassionate cities. Click here to learn more about the course.
New!
Compassionate Integrity Training - September 2019
Start Date: Cohort 1 - 9/19/19
Cohort 2 - 9/21/19
Duration: 10 weeks
Registration: NOW OPEN
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.
Cultivating Compassion through Travel
Start Date: 7/29/19
Registration Opens: 6/17/19
What better way to cultivate compassion than by traveling, whether be across town, in a different community or abroad? It’s getting out of our comfort zone; traveling with intention, openness, and mindfulness; embracing other cultures; and acting compassionately. We will discuss all aspects of compassion, noting different is not wrong, review selective compassion vs. unconditional compassion, and more! We will key in on Ted Talks, poetry, photos, and perspectives of philosophical, educational, and spiritual leaders. You can engage in off-line discussions, reflective writing, and guided meditations…and share your stories of travel and compassion. Come join us in this informative and fun course! Click here to learn more about the course.
Special On Demand Course!
How To Become A Compassionate Citizen For Groups: Strategies and Tools to Activate your Community Groups
(Designed for Individuals or Groups)
This course is available to take now
Who is this course for?
This course provides a systematic way for groups to deepen their experience of compassion and experience its impact on both an individual and community level. It helps people to become acquainted and to establish common ground, and a shared vision.
What is the course about?
Participants are invited on a journey of exploration to discover how to manifest our natural tendency for compassion as sustainable compassionate action.
Is your group needing some deeper conversations on compassion to spark your next steps?
Deepening your hands-on understanding of compassion will help to inspire ideas of where and how you want to implement your ideas
Throughout the course participants will engage in exercises and meditations that develop compassion. We will share current scientific research about the validity of these methods.
