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The Compassion Center of Georgia equips individuals, community leaders, nonprofit and community organizations, faith communities, first responders, and workplaces throughout Metro Atlanta and beyond with evidence-based Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT®) and practical emotional hygiene skills that strengthen resilience, improve well-being, and foster healthier relationships. Through education and guided practice, participants develop practical skills to navigate life's challenges with greater wisdom, compassion, and care.

Developed at Emory University, CBCT® combines compassion science with practical, real-world application. Through partnerships with the City of Atlanta's Circle of Safety initiative and other trusted community organizations, we are expanding access to these evidence-based skills for individuals and communities who might not otherwise have the opportunity to develop them—helping build safer, healthier, and more connected communities.

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Compassion Training Makes a Difference

Compassion Training is designed to provide tools people can use to enhance their own resilience, emotional regulation, and empathy, offering ways to integrate this kind of approach into the programs and services their organizations offer the community.

Compassion Training is for everyone with particular benefits for different audiences:

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RespondersViolence Prevention
ProfessionalsGovernment and
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SportsCorporate
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First Responders

Provides tools to manage stress and maintain compassion even in challenging situations, demonstrating how human connection in public service matters in astonishing ways and how missed opportunities for compassion can have devastating effects.

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Violence Prevention Professionals

Helps community leaders, educators, and activists cultivate compassion to address violence, trauma, and social injustice effectively.

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Government and Non-Profit Organizations

Supports staff and volunteers in their mission-driven work, preventing compassion fatigue and encouraging sustainable care for themselves and others.

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Professional Sports

Assists athletes and coaches develop compassion toward teammates and opponents as well as themselves, fostering mental well-being and a supportive team culture.

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Corporate Professionals

Promotes compassionate leadership, teamwork, and conflict resolution, building a positive work environment, reducing burnout, facilitating informed decision-making, increasing productivity and improving the bottom line.

First
RespondersViolence Prevention
ProfessionalsGovernment and
Non-Profit OrgsProfessional
SportsCorporate
Professionals
First Responders

Provides tools to manage stress and maintain compassion even in challenging situations, demonstrating how human connection in public service matters in astonishing ways and how missed opportunities for compassion can have devastating effects.

[team] image of individual team member
Violence Prevention Professionals

Helps community leaders, educators, and activists cultivate compassion to address violence, trauma, and social injustice effectively.

[team] image of individual team member
Government and Non-Profit Organizations

Supports staff and volunteers in their mission-driven work, preventing compassion fatigue and encouraging sustainable care for themselves and others.

[team] image of individual team member
Professional Sports

Assists athletes and coaches develop compassion toward teammates and opponents as well as themselves, fostering mental well-being and a supportive team culture.

[team] image of individual team member
Corporate Professionals

Promotes compassionate leadership, teamwork, and conflict resolution, building a positive work environment, reducing burnout, facilitating informed decision-making, increasing productivity and improving the bottom line.

[team] image of individual team member

What Our Clients Are Saying

I was able to use the part of the training about meditations to zero-in and clear my mind and focus on things. A lot of times when you're doing this your mind is busy, your mind is racing, and trying to really use that meditation muscle to focus on one thing, that can be very healing for the other person...That's one thing I've seen that really works. Quieting the mind. Quieting the noise.

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We already move like we're superheroes, right, so automatically, when you hear people, you're like, well, ok, I need to fix this, this, this. Sometimes you really have to slow down in the moment, and really fully absorb what's going on. We're problem solvers, we're solution based. But sometimes that's not always needed in the immediate moment. In that moment they may just need you to sit there and listen because that does so much more.

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The training made me aware that there's a backstory to everything. Everybody has their own road they took down to get there, and you can't necessarily put yourself in their shoes all the way and, at the same time, you still have to be able to look out and show compassion to everyone.

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'Building the emotional resilience to choke out the system.' That's the quote that stuck with me the most. That's what self-compassion is about - building that muscle so we can choke out systems, in the ways that systems have indoctrinated us to act in a certain way or be a certain way that is limiting.

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If you're in street outreach, I know that CBCT would really, really, really be impactful. It makes it easier to deal with people and take your biases away. I want love just like this person wants love. Now, the process by which they are going about it may be different. But, at the baseline, this is one thing that everybody wants, so it humanizes it, and makes it easier to deal with people and take your biases away.

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