Our Offerings
Explore our training offerings for health care providers, medical educators, and teaching artists.
Lead With Compassion
Two-day workshop that equips health care professionals with tools to enhance their leadership performance, using proven empathy and compassion principles.
Virtual Workshop Series
A free, skills-based program whereby participants learn how to communicate with greater compassion—and, in turn, greater effectiveness—with patients, health care teams, and trainees.
Online Learning Modules
Free courses on Coursera that teach health caregivers and medical educators how to improve communication skills with patients, peers, students, and more.
UC San Diego Communication Training
Ad hoc communication trainings and workshops, intended for UC San Diego health care teams. Available by request only.
Now Offering! Compassionate Communication Facilitation Guide
Are you a health care professional or medical educator in search of compassionate communication curriculum? We're here to help. To support the abovementioned communication training offerings, we now have a comprehensive digital book (in PDF form) to guide you through the exercises we use in our curriculum.
This guidebook features step-by-step facilitation instructions, links to video demonstrations of our most popular exercises, roleplay cases, fillable forms for students, plus suggested presentation and workshop ideas in topics including leadership, self-awareness, psychological safety, narrative humility, microaggressions and much more.
To obtain your free Compassionate Communication Facilitation Guide, complete our Facilitation Guide Request Form. Once you fill out the form, please allow 24 - 48 hours for the book to arrive in your inbox.
Connect With Us
Interested in engaging with the Center for Compassionate Communication? Contact us today and a team member will be in touch with you as soon as possible.