Compassion Cultivation Training: 8 Weeks with Miles Bukiet

8 Week Course For Increased Compassion, Acceptance, and Care (for self and others)!

Need compassion and balance during these challenging times? We got you.

Join a group dedicated to training attention, softening the heart, skillfully navigating emotions, and building resilience.

What is Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT)?

CCT is an 8-week training designed to help individuals develop compassion and mindfulness developed at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University School of Medicine.

The spring course runs Tuesday evenings beginning March 3rd - April 28 from 5:30-7:30 in GCASL 465.

Class Dates: 3/3, 3/10, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7, 4/14, 4/ 21, 4/ 28 (no class 3/17)

Tools, techniques, and content you will learn:

+ Intro to Mindfulness

• Principles and practices of mindfulness and compassion
• An overview of scientific and contemplative perspectives

+ Learn relationship between thoughts, emotions, and actions

• Greater understanding between the relationship of thoughts, emotions, and actions, and a better ability to intervene in the cycle at points of highest leverage
• The ability to direct your attention where it's most meaningful
• Tools for calming and stabilizing the nervous system

+ Practice of softening the heart and showing up with kindness

What does 8 weeks of CCT include?

• Weekly 2-hour classes with lectures, discussions & interactive exercises
• Daily meditation practices to transform 
 CCT learning into long term habits

• A supportive in-person community and access to online resources (e.g. guided

Why study CCT?

During the training, you will gain tools to cultivate compassion, kindness, and mindfulness. Research suggests this course can foster.

• INCREASE your compassion for self & others, happiness, calmness, self-regulation, acceptance of emotions, self- acceptance, self-caring behavior 
& job satisfaction

• DECREASE your worry, anxiety, anger, mind wandering, emotional suppression

CCT follows a structured curriculum that progressively builds from week to week.

Week 1: Steadying & calming the mind

Week 2: Compassion & loving-kindness for a loved one

Week 3: Loving-kindness for oneself

Week 4: Compassion for oneself

Week 5: Common humanity & appreciation for others

Week 6: Compassion for others

Week 7: Active compassion

Week 8: Integrated daily compassion

Instructor:

Miles Bukiet, M.A.P.P.

A meditation facilitator with five years of full-time meditation training, including two years at monasteries and practice centers in Myanmar, Thailand and China, two years of solitary retreat in New Mexico under the guidance of Alan Wallace, Ph.D. and Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D and one year working with Soryu Forall at the Monastic Academy in Vermont. In 2018 Miles earned a Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently 1,200 hours into a 1,600 hour teacher training in Alexander Technique. He teaches meditation at universities, non-profits, and companies across the country, runs the non-profit Dharma Gates, and attends Columbia’s School of Social Work.