In a scheduled Training Compassion course, a group of learners are assigned to a certified teacher and move through the course together on a set schedule. Joining a scheduled course is especially helpful if you want to move through the course with the same teacher and group each week and have more structure to guide you through the whole experience.
Training Compassion for Healthcare – Sept 2026
Hosted by
Bento Soares
Bento Soares is a cancer research investigator and an educator at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria (UICOMP), where he serves as Head of the Department of Cancer Biology and Pharmacology and as Senior Associate Dean for Research. Along with colleagues from UICOMP, Bento has been teaching CBCT® since early 2017 to medical students, residents, and healthcare professionals in the two affiliated hospitals – OSF and UnityPoint Health. Bento has also offered CBCT® courses to teachers and counselors in the Peoria Public School, and to the leadership of the Peoria Police Department. Bento is also working towards development of a research program to investigate the relevance of CBCT® to cancer survivorship, and to exploit simulation as a contemplative research methodology for the assessment of skills developed in CBCT®.
