Compassion Cultivation Training For Physicians and Psychologists

CCT™ is an 8-week program, developed at Stanford University, with insights and techniques from psychology, neuroscience, and contemplative practice. The course integrates evidence-based meditation techniques, interactive discussions, and lectures as well as real-world exercises to put learning into practice. This class will provide a private and safe environment for physicians and psychologists to explore compassion issues.

CCT™ has applications for your own well-being, response to suffering within yourself and others, burnout, your relationship to your work and in clinical applications for treatment of anxiety. The Stanford WellMD/WellPhD Center's Professional Fulfillment Model emphasizes Personal Resilience. Compassion and Self Compassion are two measures of Personal Resilience that the Center tracks as measures of medical staff wellbeing. Compassion Cultivation Training has been also studied in reducing burnout.

Activate your own compassionate nature as a powerful force in your everyday life. CCT™ is taught worldwide and offers practical skills, tools, and knowledge. As a graduate, you establish the habit of relating to yourself, others, and the world around you from a place of greater understanding, joy, and purpose. This CCT class is designed with supplemental materials that focus on the unique education and experience of being a physician or psychologist.

Fall 2026 Course Schedule

Thursdays, October 8 - December 3, 2026, for 8 class sessions
(No class on Thanksgiving )
6:00pm - 8:00pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)

The course includes:

Weekly 2 hour class including lecture, discussion, and in-class exercises
Daily meditation practices
Real-world assignments for practicing compassionate thoughts and actions

For more information and to register, please visit https://cvent.me/dwxVZ4

This CCT™ course is specifically designed to support physicians and psychologists who want to engage compassion for themselves and improve their relationships with others. For this session, registration is limited to physicians and psychologists. We welcome our physicians and psychologists colleagues from other Medical Institutions to join us. This is a hybrid class; learners may attend in-person on the Stanford campus, or via Zoom videoconferencing.

For more information visit https://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/education/cme/cct.html

Early Bird Registration
Tuition Only: $525
Tuition + CME: $575

Regular Rates - from September 1, 2026
Tuition Only: $575
Tuition + CME: $625

STAP-eligible for Stanford affiliates.

1. Differentiate empathy, compassion and empathy fatigue and apply learned compassion skills in everyday and professional life
2. Describe basic mindfulness skills; how to stay present to self and clients, while teaching clients how to do this for themselves.
3. Utilize cognitive re-framing with oneself and others from a compassionate stance of "common humanity."
4. Utilize compassion practice with oneself and others for emotional regulation in the face of emotional distress.
5. Identify resistance to self compassion.

In support of improving patient care, Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Credit Designation 
American Medical Association (AMA) 
Stanford Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 16.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

American Psychological Association (APA) 
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibly for the content of the programs. 

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations received in writing no less than 20 days before the course will be refunded. No refunds will be made on cancellations received after that date.

Please send cancellation requests to Reiko Riley at [email protected]

Stanford University School of Medicine reserves the right to cancel or postpone this program if necessary; in the event of cancellation, course fees will be fully refunded. We are not responsible for other costs incurred such as non-refundable airline tickets or hotel penalties.

Accessibility Statement
 Stanford University School of Medicine is committed to ensuring that its programs, services, goods and facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities as specified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008.  If you have needs that require accommodations, please contact the Conference Coordinator.

Cultural and Linguistic Competency
The planners and speakers of this CME activity have been encouraged to address cultural issues relevant to their topic area for the purpose of complying with California Assembly Bill 1195. Moreover, the Stanford University School of Medicine Multicultural Health Portal contains many useful cultural and linguistic competency tools including culture guides, language access information and pertinent state and federal laws.  You are encouraged to visit the Multicultural Health Portal: https://laneguides.stanford.edu/multicultural-health

For activity related questions, please contact
     Name: Diana Adams
     Title: Course Director
     Email: [email protected]

For CME general questions, please contact 
     Email: [email protected]

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Stanford Medicine adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

The content of this activity is not related to products or the business lines of an ACCME-defined ineligible company. Hence, there are no relevant financial relationships with an ACCME-defined ineligible company for anyone who was in control of the content of this activity. 

Member Information

Role in activity

Nature of Relationship(s) / Name of Ineligible Company(s)

Alan K Louie, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford

Co-Course Director

Nothing to disclose

Diana Adams, EdD

Co-Course Director, Faculty