CBCT® is a research-based program from Emory University’s Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-based Ethics. The program provides cognitive and behavioral strategies that help participants promote greater degrees of personal wellbeing and resilience while supporting and expanding altruistic motivation. 

In the first part of the program, a sequence of exercises aims at cultivating a more grounded and resilient approach to life’s ups and downs, including core practices for security priming, attention training, and mindful self-awareness. With this strengthened basis for greater mental stability and balance, the course then provides reflective exercises to notice, analyze, and shift inner mindsets and attitudes to foster more inclusive and insightful empathic understanding of others and ultimately to intensify and extend genuine compassion. 

CBCT’s targeted outcomes include self-compassion, greater insight into the behaviors of others, and the capacity to sustain a realistic hopefulness in the face of complex or difficult circumstances. According to researchers, strengthening inner skills through CBCT’s methods may contribute to lessening depression and stress and prevent empathic fatigue and burnout.

Applications due: Thursday, March 9 at 5 p.m.