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Compassion is a skill.

Learn it by heart.

Evidence-based compassion and resilience training for everyone: community members first, and the leaders, helpers and organizations who support them.

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Practical skills for life’s hardest moments

Compassion Center of Georgia teaches people how to care for themselves and each other, especially when life gets hard. Our training is for everyone: neighbors, parents, young people and seniors, along with the leaders, first responders, faith communities and workplaces who show up for them. Through Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT®), people learn real skills for handling stress, conflict and loss, so they can meet hard moments with more steadiness and kindness. We serve Metro Atlanta and beyond.

CBCT® was developed at Emory University. It pairs the science of compassion with practices you can use in everyday life. Through partners like the City of Atlanta’s Circle of Safety initiative, we bring this training to people who might never get the chance otherwise, because safer, healthier communities start with people who know how to care for one another.

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Compassion Training Makes a Difference

Compassion is a skill, and like any skill it gets stronger with practice. Our training teaches simple, practical tools for staying steady under stress, handling hard conversations, and caring for yourself while you care for others.

It’s for everyone. Here’s how different people use it.

Community
MembersViolence Prevention
and NonprofitsFirst Responders
and GovernmentProfessional
SportsCorporate
Professionals
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Community

For parents, neighbors, young people and seniors. Learn simple practices for staying steady when life gets hard, handling difficult conversations, and bringing more patience and kindness to the people closest to you.

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Violence Prevention and Nonprofit Professionals

Helps community leaders, educators, advocates, and the staff and volunteers of mission-driven organizations cultivate compassion to address violence, trauma, and social injustice, while preventing compassion fatigue and sustaining care for themselves and others.

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First Responders and Government

Provides tools to manage stress and maintain compassion 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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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, and supporting clear, informed decision-making.

Community
MembersViolence Prevention
and NonprofitsFirst Responders
and GovernmentProfessional
SportsCorporate
Professionals
Community

For parents, neighbors, young people and seniors. Learn simple practices for staying steady when life gets hard, handling difficult conversations, and bringing more patience and kindness to the people closest to you.

Neighbors of different ages talking and laughing together in an Atlanta park, with the city skyline behind them
Violence Prevention and Nonprofit Professionals

Helps community leaders, educators, advocates, and the staff and volunteers of mission-driven organizations cultivate compassion to address violence, trauma, and social injustice, while preventing compassion fatigue and sustaining care for themselves and others.

Nonprofit staff and volunteers smiling as they pack fruit, vegetables and grocery bags at a food distribution table
First Responders and Government

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

Two firefighters in turnout gear smiling and talking beside a fire engine
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.

Professional women's basketball players and a coach in a huddle during a game
Corporate Professionals

Promotes compassionate leadership, teamwork, and conflict resolution, building a positive work environment, reducing burnout, and supporting clear, informed decision-making.

Colleagues smiling and talking around a conference table with laptops in a bright office

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103
people have completed our compassion training
17
courses led since 2023

People Who've Learned With Us

Real people, real classrooms. Here are some of the groups who have studied compassion with us.

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Summer 2025
A group of class participants standing together in a classroom after a compassion training session, Spring 2024
Spring 2024
Class participants holding their Training Compassion workbooks, Winter 2024
Winter 2024
Class participants in conversation around a table during a compassion training session, Winter 2023
Winter 2023
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Senior CBCT® Instructors

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.

CBCT Participant

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.

Circle of Safety Partner

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.

CBCT Participant

'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.

CBCT Participant

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.

Circle of Safety Partner

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