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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.

Whether one of the popular one-hour workshops below or one tailored to your audience, 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

  • 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.

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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 Intensive, Center for Compassionate Leadership
  • Journey to New Beginnings: Restor(y)ing Our Lives with Compassion, 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