Compassion Institute (CI)™ is a respected global leader in compassion education. Founded in 2016 by Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., CI provides compassion-based training programs to the public and selected “keystone” professions critical to societal stability and health, including healthcare, law enforcement, education, and social services. CI has a community of more than 200 professionally-certified CCT™ instructors. Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT™)© is the signature program, first developed at Stanford by Thupten Jinpa, in 2008, and further refined by CI’s Founding Faculty.