Opening In-person Retreat April 28 – May 1, 2026 in London
Intensive 8-Month Program Includes Online Sessions + Practicum

Are you feeling the call to lead with heart and humanity during these unprecedented times? What will it take to reimagine outdated, unsustainable systems that are breaking apart right in front of us?

If you are passionate and ready to lead this movement, join us to become an Accredited Compassionate Leadership Teacher for our renowned Compassionate Leadership Certification Training program. Learn the evidence-based tools, practices, and principles that will equip you to train and inspire leaders and changemakers to create lasting shifts. It’s time to bring our innate wisdom and the power of compassion to the forefront of leadership so that individuals, organizations, and systems can thrive.

What You’ll Experience
– A powerful co-learning journey to deepen your understanding of the science of compassion, proven leadership development practices, and the integration of the two to create more effective teams and work environments.
– A supportive and engaged community of committed compassionate leaders bringing change to organizations, promoting employee flourishing and creating a better world.
– A concrete, evidence-based framework for architecting organizational compassion competence to shape the roles, routines, culture and networks that create a more successful organization.
– Practices to deepen personal compassion and leadership capacities – both for yourself and those you teach and lead.
– A foundation of self-compassion to lead yourself and others with greater ease and authenticity.

What You’ll Learn
– How to facilitate the Compassionate Leadership Certification Training program, a modular 12-hour, research-based training proven to grow self-compassion, compassion for others, compassion at work, and compassion for the greater good.
– A deep dive into a compassionate and human-centered approach to creating positive change in organizational contexts. You will learn to embody and teach deeper awareness and compassion and apply it at an individual and organizational level. This includes skills for creating psychological safety, fostering compassionate communication, building environments of deep belonging, and strategies for changing systems for the benefit of all.
– How to respond to real world obstacles and challenges that keep individuals and organizations stuck in outmoded forms of leadership. Learn how to build a compelling case to inspire leaders and organizations to adopt compassionate principles and practices in alignment with the organization’s mission.
– Grounding in the fundamentals of scientific research relevant to compassionate leadership, including important findings from psychology, neuroscience, and organizational behavior.
– Research-based structures & approaches to creating cultures that are both compassionate and effective.
– How to create environments of safety, connection, and belonging in your courses and in leadership.
– Tools and practices for leading compassionately that you can teach others and use in your own life.

Total tuition for the program is regularly $4,750 USD. Through November 30, tuition is $3,950 USD, a savings of $800 during the Super Early Bird period.

Tuition covers the entire 8-month Professional Compassionate Leadership Teacher Training program, beginning with the 3-day in-person Opening Retreat, 5-month Learning & Practice Phase with your practice teaching pod, and the 3-month Practicum Phase with guidance, supervision and coaching. Tuition also includes access to all curriculum materials, presentations, practices, marketing materials and email templates, research, and bibliographies.
A limited number of partial scholarships are available for qualified applicants to bring compassionate leadership where it is so needed in the world.

Retreat Fees
Program participants will be responsible for the room and board charges of $1,375 USD for the 3-day Opening Retreat at Four Acres Centre of Leadership in London. This includes all meals from dinner April 28 through lunch May 1, snacks, coffee and tea throughout each day, and use of the grounds and facilities at Four Acres.

Participants are also responsible for their personal travel arrangements to and from London.