When: April 2026

Location:  UC San Diego Campus

INTEREST FORM

Are you a medical or nursing educator seeking new curricular innovations? Lead with Compassion is a workshop for change-makers like you. Join us for a 2.5 - day training in San Diego, CA, that equips experienced and aspiring healthcare educators and artists with the tools to enhance their leadership, facilitation and professional performance in medical settings and beyond. 

Through an interactive curriculum based in arts and humanities, this immersive session uncovers and develops your authentic style and helps build your communication toolbox to become more adaptable when speaking with patients, students, funders, the media—and even your own family. Learning will occur alongside clinicians as well as artists who have an interest in teaching in healthcare. You will participate in discussions, innovative exercises, roleplay, and written reflections to increase your skill set and wellness. Our overarching goal is to rewire the way healthcare providers think about communication in medicine, and address the importance of awareness, and self-compassion. 

This deep-dive experience can serve as a stand-alone opportunity or become your first step as a trainer to bolster your facilitation skills and learn ways of integrating these lessons into your curriculum. Our scaffolded program includes subsequent interactive “booster” sessions on Zoom, and online modules with facilitation guides for integration into the classroom. Join us at the Center for Compassionate Communication and help move the needle as a global community. 

Lead with Compassion is for you if you want to: 

• Discover empathic and compassionate principles that can enhance your teaching, clinical practice and leadership performance as a health care clinician or artist 

• Ignite stronger, more meaningful relationships with patients, students, peers and more 

• Transform the way you think, see and act in today's ever-changing healthcare landscape 

For workshop schedule, view pdf.