What you can do now, while the curriculum catches up

From medical and academic institutions

Universities, academic medical centers, professional bodies and recognized nonprofits, on their own channels.

YouTube76 min

Tier 1Practicing Compassion: An Antidote for These Challenging TimesThupten Jinpa, PhD, Compassion InstituteCourtesy of compassioninstitute.com

YouTube33 min

Tier 1Guided Practice: Settling the MindLakiba Pittman, MA, Compassion InstituteCourtesy of compassioninstitute.com

YouTube62 min

Tier 1Empathy in Medical Education: The Science of Teaching the Art of MedicineAmy Zelenski, PhD, UW Department of Medicine

YouTubeVideo

Tier 1Hidden Curriculum 2019Medical students, CU Anschutz

YouTubeLecture

Tier 1How Self-Compassion Can Help Us to ThriveKristin Neff, PhD, UT Austin

YouTubeLecture

Tier 1Inaugural James Doty Compassion LectureJames Doty, MD, Tulane Medicine

YouTubeLecture

Tier 1The Science of Compassion: Origins, Measures, and InterventionsThupten Jinpa, PhD, Stanford CCARE

YouTubeVideo

Tier 1What We Know About Self-CompassionChristopher Germer, PhD, Global Compassion Coalition

Videos marked "Courtesy of compassioninstitute.com" are shared from the free media library of compassioninstitute.com.

TED, TEDx and TEDMED

Talks by credentialed experts on official TED channels.

TED15 min

Tier 2Want a happier life? Be more compassionateStephen Trzeciak, MD, TED

YouTube19 min

Tier 2The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self-CompassionKristin Neff, PhD, TEDx

YouTube17 min

Tier 2The power of empathyHelen Riess, MD, TEDxMiddlebury

TED19 min

Tier 2Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?Brian Goldman, MD, TEDxToronto

Media, podcasts and other sources

Established media, podcasts and experts' own channels.

YouTube3 min

Tier 3Brene Brown on EmpathyBrene Brown, PhD, RSA

YouTube12 min

Tier 3On the Importance of Physician EmpathyMohammadreza Hojat, PhD, DocWire

Podcast74 min

Tier 3The Scientific Case for Self-CompassionChris Germer, PhD, Ten Percent Happier