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workshops

Laura offers a variety of workshops that introduce compassion practice through evidence-based research, guided practice, reflection, and the arts.

Each workshop is designed to be experiential, with opportunities for participants to reflect and integrate the learning into the realities of their community, work, or daily lives.

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Laura's standard one-hour workshops.

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Standard workshop options

  • The Science of Compassion

    Explore compassion as both an innate human capacity and a skill that can be trained, practiced, and strengthened.

  • Self-compassion: Key to Resilience and Flourishing

    Work with mindfulness, common humanity, and self-kindness as supports for resilience, skillful response, and inner steadiness.

  • Embracing Our Common Humanity

    Cultivate connection with others as a source of strength, comfort, courage, and wiser responses to difficult people or situations.

  • 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.

  • Flourish: The Power of Cultivating Lovingkindness for Ourselves

    Connect with genuine happiness, meaning, inner peace, fulfillment, and core values through lovingkindness and gratitude.

  • Cultivating Joy through the Practice of Gratitude

    Practice gratitude through engaged, embodied exercises that support resilience, well-being, joy, wonder, and interconnectedness.

  • The Art of Compassion

    Explore how compassion has been captured, expressed, and taught across time and cultures through poetry and the arts.

Looking for something custom?

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.

Selected engagement history

Since 2018, Laura has delivered compassion workshops, trainings, and programs to thousands of individuals in government, business, educational, and nonprofit sectors. Participants find her blend of wisdom, knowledge, and warmth transformative, resulting in frequent repeat invitations. Whether she is delivering one of her core compassion workshops or a custom training, each experience is unique and tailored to the specific community with which she is working.

  • Finding Belonging in Our Common Humanity, Silicon Valley Reads
  • Supporting, Not Solving: A Compassionate Approach to Employment Coaching, Global Employment Initiative - U.S. Department of State
  • Strengthening Compassion, Resilience Symposium | CEFAR / Foreign Service Institute
  • Applying Compassion to Historical Interpretation, National Trust for Historic Preservation
  • The Science of Compassion & Embracing Our Common Humanity, Silicon Valley Reads
  • Building Bridges Through Common Humanity, President Lincoln's Cottage