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A Virtual Leadership Workshop for Healthcare Changemakers

Hosted by UC San Diego's Center for Compassionate Communication, Lead With Compassion is an immersive, multi-day Zoom workshop that equips health care professionals, medical educators, and teaching artists who work in medical education and health care with tools to enhance their leadership performance, using proven empathy and compassion principles.

Through an interactive, arts- and humanities-based curriculum, this immersive session helps you uncover and develop your authentic communications style. You’ll build a practical toolbox  for adapting your message whens speaking with patients, students, funders, the media—and even your own family. Register here.

This is a multi-day event. One registration covers all days.

  • Day 1 – Wednesday, April 8 | 9 AM –12 PM (PST)
  • Day 2 – Thursday, April 9 | 9 AM –12 PM (PST)
  • Day 3 – Tuesday, May 5 | 9 AM –12 PM (PST)
  • Day 4 – Wednesday, May 6 | 9 AM –12 PM (PST)

Lead With Compassion is for you if you want to:

Discover

Discover compassionate principles that enhance your clinical practice, medical teaching, and leadership performance.

Ignite

Ignite stronger, more meaningful relationships with your patients, peers, and self.

Transform

Transform the way you think, see, and act in today’s ever changing health care landscape.

Lead With Compassion in Action

See how the Lead With Compassion workshop is shaping the way providers show up for themselves, their teams, and their patients across institutions and disciplines nationwide.

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Meet Your Workshop Instructors

Lead With Compassion is a dynamic workshop led by UC San Diego's Center for Compassionate Communication. Your instructors are experts in arts- and humanities-based leadership training, who will guide you through interactive exercises rooted in storytelling, creativity, and reflective practice.

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Are you ready to Lead With Compassion?

Registration is open for this virtual leadership workshop designed to shape how you lead in 2026 and beyond. Full workshop access is $150 ($100 for UC San Diego faculty). Sign up now and invest in a more compassionate approach to leadership. Limited spots available!

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Questions?

For any questions regarding Lead With Compassion, contact Norma Nava at nonava@health.ucsd.edu.