Compassion Apps
Compassion Clinic
Compassion Clinic
Compassion Clinic
Compassion Clinic is an interactive app helping healthcare professionals combat burnout through evidence-based practices. Features include guided breathing timers, Nonviolent Communication exercises, and Zach Mercurio's "Power of Mattering" framework. Built on neuroscience research showing compassion activates reward circuits while empathy depletes, the app teaches sustainable caring.
Well-Being Scan
Compassion Clinic
Compassion Clinic
Your well-being is a living system, not a single score. This interactive tool lets you rate six dimensions of psychological well-being, each mapped to a part of a growing tree. Low scores create visible thinning; high scores produce fullness and vitality. The shape that emerges isn't a grade. It's a picture of where your system is right now. Built on Carol Ryff's validated model of flourishing.
Finding Your Why
Compassion Clinic
Finding Your Why
This app provides a guided self-reflection designed to help you uncover your purpose statement. Through carefully crafted prompts, you'll explore the origin of your desire to make a difference, the invisible thread connecting your life's work, the personal transformation that shaped who you are, and the sustainable fuel that keeps you going. Use your purpose statement to keep you centered.
Comprehensive Reference List
References are organized by the seven Essential Understanding sections of the workshop. Each section opens with the core insight that frames that portion of the presentation, followed by the peer-reviewed sources that support it. Every reference includes a brief abstract so readers can quickly assess its relevance. Foundational book-length texts are collected in a dedicated Compassion Bookshelf section with a link to the Compassion Book Club for discussion guides and deeper exploration.
Keep the Conversation Going
The workshop planted seeds. A book club helps them grow.
I have created a curated reading list that deepens your understanding of the empathy-to-compassion shift, self-compassion foundations, and the neuroscience of resilient caregiving.
Take a Compassion Deep Dive
Cultivate a Compassionate Heart (Live on Zoom)
Cultivate a Compassionate Heart (CCH) is an eight-week journey to strengthen the essential qualities of the heart (compassion, kindness, gratitude, and presence) toward yourself and others. This course will help you develop or deepen your self-awareness and your access to compassion, as well as enhance the skills of emotional intelligence, self-reflection, meditation, compassionate listening, and much more: skills that are anchored in evidence-based practices.