This interactive and experiential workshop provides participants with a common and accessible language of applied compassion, contemplative practices, and leadership to experience individual and collective compassion, contemplative practices, and leadership beginning with the individual, teams, and then organizations in being and doing spaces. The workshop utilizes the Learning by Doing approach developed by the Stanford University Design School and the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford.

Participants of all experience levels are invited to learn, experience, connect, and grow together. Participants will gain a general awareness and confidence in applied compassion, contemplative practices to cultivate sustainable compassionate leadership, and guided group compassion cultivation meditation.

The workshop facilitator, Richard Williams, is a former special education teacher and district administrator, editor of the ‘Handbook of Research on Challenging Deficit Thinking for Exceptional Education Improvement,’ ‘Healing While Studying: Reflections and Strategies for Healing, Coping, and Liberation of Graduate Students of Minoritized Identities,’ and other publications. He is a contemplative practitioner, certified Ambassador of Applied Compassion from Stanford University, and Compassionate Leadership and Resilience for Global Leaders.