All Twelve Modules
Each module includes learning objectives, core concepts, current peer-reviewed readings, learning activities, validated assessment tools, and faculty teaching notes.
Module 1: The Empathy-Compassion Distinction
The cognitive reframe that protects the caregiver while preserving care.
Module 2: Compassion Trainability
The neuroscience that establishes compassion as a skill, not a trait.
Module 3: Self-Compassion as Foundation
The keystone of sustainable caring, with attention to Western cultural barriers.
Module 4: Loving-Kindness Meditation
A four-week structured personal practice with weekly debrief.
Module 5: Presence
The felt sense of being available, the gateway to all relational skill.
Module 6: Deep Listening
Beyond active listening. The four levels and the somatic markers.
Module 7: The Patient as a Person
Cassell on suffering. Charon on narrative. The parallel chart.
Module 8: Mattering as Clinical Practice
Making the patient feel seen, valued, and needed in the encounter.
Module 9: Hope as a Clinical Skill
Snyder's hope theory. The disciplined construction of clinical hope.
Module 10: Cultural Humility and Structural Awareness
The lifelong practice. Social determinants as clinical context.
Module 11: Trauma-Informed Care
SAMHSA's six principles as default posture. ACE awareness.
Module 12: Moral Resilience and Sustainable Boundaries
Rushton's framework. Halifax on edge states. Idiot compassion.