CBCT® (Cognitively Based Compassion Training) at Emory University

CBCT® is a system of meditative practices designed to expand and strengthen compassion for self and others. Practices include training in attentional stability and increased emotional awareness, as well as targeted analytical reflections to better understand one's relationship with self and others. These reflective exercises support critical insight into the way mindsets and attitudes can be modified to sustain personal resiliency, to foster an inclusive and more accurate understanding of others and ultimately, to intensify altruistic motivation. With practice, informed compassion can become spontaneous response that permeates one's life, helping to cultivate mental states and behaviors valued across cultures such as kindness, gratitude, generosity, and warm-heartedness.