The Compassion Course Online 2020
with Thom Bond
Changing lives for 9 Years, connecting in 14 languages, with more
than 20,000 participants in 115 Countries
Course Starts June 24th, 2020
"For anyone who is inspired to have more compassion, understanding and harmony in their lives and in our world”
The Course Runs from June 24th, 2020 through June 2021
Weekly Messages
Monthly Conferences
Organizer/Facilitator Track (NEW!)
Special sessions and events (NEW!)
Expanded Translated Courses World-wide (NEW!)
Specialized Compassion course Communities (NEW!)
Experience more harmony and understanding with important people in your life
Have less painful, shorter conflicts
Have more awareness of your needs, wants and desires
Have your needs expressed and understood
Increase congruence between your values and actions
Translate judgments into dialogues & requests
Increase harmony and understanding among others
Stay more centered, open and effective in conflicts
As we humans have developed other technologies, the technology of compassion has been developed too. This course provides the “how to” of creating more connection, understanding, and compassion in our daily lives – a way to create a world we will be happy to leave our children’s children. The work is challenging, at times confronting, and with perseverance, practice, focus, and dedication, it works.
With almost 6,000 people around the globe in our 2019 course, we are unrelentingly making the skills of compassionate living available to anyone, regardless of time and money constraints.
The course starts with foundational concepts and practices that help us understand what engenders compassion and what blocks it. As the year progresses, we work with more advanced practices and processes that help us bring more compassion into our everyday lives.
For nine years, this course has consistently proven to be “life-changing”, “fun” and “transformational” (check out the quotes below).
Weekly Messages
Each week, a new message is published via email. The first message is published on Wednesday, June 24th, 2020 with subsequent weekly installments published on subsequent Wednesdays until June 16, 2021.
All weekly messages include:
—A concept to learn
—A story to illustrate the concept
—Practices to integrate the concept into your life
—Links to previous weeks, videos, exercises and more
Throughout the course, we work on progressively deepening levels with self-empathy, empathy, emotional triggers, anger, beliefs, dialog, appreciation, requests and more. By the end of the year, the course covers over 50 concepts and differentiations.
Monthly Conferences
As part of the course, Thom hosts 12, monthly 1-1/2 hour conferences (which participants can join either via video conference or a telephone line) for the English speaking Community.
All conferences are recorded and may be listened to at any time throughout the course. Recording links are posted within the weekly messages for those who don’t attend or those who would like to review.
Course Facilitators, who are supported by Thom host the conferences where it is offered in other languages.
Organizer/Facilitator Track - Grassroots Leadership Opportunities (NEW!)
The 2020 Compassion Course includes a new optional track for Compassion Course alumni who are interested in putting together their own Compassion Course practice group this year.
If you would like to organize and/or facilitate a group of Compassion Course Participants you can get guidance and support through the "Organizer/Facilitator" track.
This track offers 12, 90-minute conferences each month with Thom that will cover the concepts and skills that help us to effectively facilitate a group in a way that reflects the integrity of the course.
There will also be a Organizer/Facilitator forum as a resource and support.
This track is a wonderful way to provide an important service, have some personal and professional growth, and maybe get a little extra money.
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Special Sessions and Events (NEW!)
This year there will be two special sessions during the course, one on empathy (August 31st) and one on anger (February 15th). These sessions are offered at critical times during the course to help participants successfully make this work part of our lives.
Satellite Courses Around the World (NEW!)
After nine years as a learning community, we have been gifted with a skilled and dedicated international leadership group that is working directly with Thom to deliver the course in their own languages. This new aspect, expands the course's potential reach from 1.6 billion to 3.3 billion. Inquiries for other language projects are welcomed from experienced trainers.
The 2020 Compassion Course will be delivered in Polish, Finnish, Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Turkish, Spanish, Hebrew, Dutch, Romanian and other languages, most for the first time.
This year more than ever, being in the course means being part of a borderless community of dedicated humans from all walks of life and every time zone on the planet.
And even though we may not speak the same native language, we are speaking the language of connection, understanding and compassion - together. All of us doing our part to create the world we want to leave to future generations.
Compassion Course Communities Worldwide (NEW!)
We have community members from all around the world and from all walks of life. All Compassion Course participants will receive invitations to be part of our Private Online Facebook groups and Forums. This year in addition to our general forums we will have special community forums and events in the areas of:
—Parenting & Family
—Compassionate Leadership
—Empathy
This is a new opportunity to connect 24/7 with participants from around the globe – where we share our experiences in the course, get deeper learning, support, inspiration, and fun. Quite something to be part of.
Click Here for an Interactive Map of Participant Locations
The Team
For the members of the NYCNVC Compassion Course Online team, this is not a job, this is not even a project – it is a calling, a way for us to live out our deep desire to contribute to a more compassionate world.
Team Member Bios
What People Are Saying
“If I gave appreciation for everything Thom Bond has contributed to me, I wouldn’t have time for anything else.”
— Marshall Rosenberg
“I wholeheartedly endorse and will recommend The Compassion Course to anyone who is new to NVC and to people who want to deepen and integrate the skills and consciousness.”
— Robert Gonzales, CNVC Certified Trainer – living-compassion.org
“It has changed my life radically, I’m still amazed. Relationships that were stuck in old patterns have become fluid, caring and loving. Perhaps, at sixty-six, to find a new love with my husband, a warmth and closeness with my children, it all seems like a miracle.”
— Compassion Course Participant
“Thom normalizes NVC. He shows it’s possible to do in everyday life.”
— Mike M.
“Thom’s style as a teacher is one that is filled with personal stories and examples that are meaningful and thoughtful. He does not place himself above anyone else.”
— Elizabeth C.
“Wahhhhhh Thom! I thought introspective awareness was a specialty I had received during 23 years of regular meditation and spiritual studies. However, without this Compassion Course, I would have never discovered alone, the depth of thinking regarding judgments. I have been trying so many things to realize the ignorance of a judgmental attitude, but the seed was still in me… just because I never experienced the Inner Power and the Wisdom that comes from understanding needs.”
— 2012 Compassion Course Participant.
“Working with Thom has changed my life. Really.”
— Nellie B.
“I could take this course for the rest of my life, and I might.”
— Barbara L.
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Tuition
Tuition for the entire year is: Standard Tuition $72, Partial Scholarship $36, Standard Tuition plus sponsoring one (or more) full scholarships for people in need $144-288. Alternate Payments Options are available as well.
*Participants choose their tuition rate.