Compassion Cultivation

Margy Lim: Was trained at Stanford University as a Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) teacher and is a Certified CCT teacher through the Center for Compassion Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University. Reasons to teach CCT: Through my years working as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist both in private practice and as a staff clinician at the Stanford Faculty Staff Help Center, I have observed that compassion for self is in short supply. In our hard-driving, high achieving area, many people are hard on themselves and suffer as a result. I find great satisfaction in introducing people to the concept of compassion for self and ultimately for others. Self-compassion is, in the deepest sense, self-care and fosters resilience and a feeling of connectedness, often reducing feelings of anxiety and depression. In teaching Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT), my aim is to provide the skills necessary to cultivate and maintain a sense of kindness toward self and others in order to enhance the sense of wellbeing in our homes, communities and places of work and to prepare us for life’s inevitable challenges.

Martha Rock: A former technology lawyer and preschool teacher, Martha has devoted herself recently to learning and sharing the "good stuff" of life and offers workshops in compassion cultivation, stress management, negotiation, collaboration and communication to parents and teens, teachers, health care and other professionals. She is a Certified CCT teacher through the Center for Compassion Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University. Martha serves on the Advisory Board of the Greater Good Science Center at U.C. Berkeley. She holds a BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley, and a JD/MBA from UCLA. She is a certified Laughter Yoga Leader trained at UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and a NIA White Belt Teacher trained by Debbie Rosas, Cofounder of Nia, at Nia Headquarters in Portland.

The CCT practices provide me a source of strength, resilience, openness, connection, clarity, and kindness.