workshops
Laura offers a variety of workshops that introduce and train compassion through evidence-based research, guided practice, reflection, and the arts. Since 2018, she has delivered workshops, trainings, and programs to thousands of people in government, business, education, and nonprofit sectors, and is frequently invited back.
Each workshop is designed to be experiential and practical, with opportunities for participants to reflect and integrate the learning into the realities of their professional and personal lives.
Popular One-Hour Workshops
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The Science of Compassion
Explore compassion as both an innate human capacity and a skill that can be trained, practiced, and strengthened.
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Self-compassion: Key to Resilience and Flourishing
Work with mindfulness, common humanity, and self-kindness as supports for resilience, skillful response, and inner steadiness.
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Embracing Our Common Humanity
Cultivate connection with others as a source of strength, comfort, courage, and wiser responses to difficult people or situations.
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Moving Forward with Compassion
Use compassion as a source of courage and strength for moving through hard times or a specific challenge facing a group.
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Flourish: The Power of Cultivating Lovingkindness for Ourselves
Connect with genuine happiness, meaning, inner peace, fulfillment, and core values through lovingkindness and gratitude.
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Cultivating Joy through the Practice of Gratitude
Practice gratitude through engaged, embodied exercises that support resilience, well-being, joy, wonder, and interconnectedness.
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Workshops can be modified for audience, content, and length. If your organization needs a tailored workshop, a class, or compassion-related content for an existing event, contact Laura.
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Selected Past Workshops
- Supporting, Not Solving: A Compassionate Approach to Employment Coaching, Global Employment Initiative, U.S. Department of State
- Strengthening Compassion, Center for Excellence in Foreign Affairs and Resilience / Foreign Service Institute
- Building Bridges Through Common Humanity, President Lincoln's Cottage
- Compassion Workshop Series, Kupferberg Holocaust Center / Queensborough Community College
- Compassion Intensive, Center for Compassionate Leadership
- Finding Belonging in Our Common Humanity, Silicon Valley Reads
- Many Journeys, One Shared Humanity, Loudoun County Public Library / Loudoun Virginia 250
- Applying Compassion to Historical Interpretation, National Trust for Historic Preservation