Become a Certified Compassionate Care Provider

Discover the power of evidence-based accredited compassion training. Advance your clinical practice, enhance organizational compassion, and improve patient outcomes.

Welcome toEnACT

An Evidence-informed Competency-based Accredited Compassion Training Program

Informed by over a decade of research and validated across multiple settings, our compassion training program and learner resources are designed to elevate learners' baseline compassion by equipping them with advanced knowledge, practical skills, and clinical tools to cultivate personal and organizational compassion.

Accredited and Certified

Whether you’re learning online at your own pace or onsite, all our modules are accredited and can be used for Continuing Medical Education or Continuing Professional Development Credits.

Proven Results

Results consistently demonstrate that EnACT learners are highly satisfied, have improved workplace wellbeing, compassion competence, and receive higher compassion ratings from their patients.

Brief and Robust

Time is precious, compassion is complex. The five EnACT modules are stackable and can be delivered in-person over a single day or online, with data showing that learnings are transferable and sustainable in real-world clinical care.

Practical and Clinically Relevant

EnACT delivers evidence-based, practical compassion skills. Supporting a wide variety of learning styles, EnACT combines self-reflection exercises, research, relational skills training, and more to produce an immediate and enduring impact.

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"I think that a course like this should be required by all clinical staff; it would be one of those programs you could take multiple times, because you would learn something new each time you take it."
98%
of learners report knowledge and skill gain
99%
learner satisfaction
Statistically Significant
Higher Compassion Confidence
Increase in Professional Fulfillment
Higher Compassion Competence
Higher Patient Compassion Ratings
Sustained Professional Fulfillment 9 months Post-training
Sustained Compassion Confidence 9 months Post-Training

Want to learn more about compassion?

Dedicated to advancing the art and science of compassion, the Compassion Research Lab is an award-winning knowledge and resource hub to educate and equip you in compassion.

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Robust and easy to administer, the Sinclair Compassion Questionnaire is designed to help healthcare providers, organizations, and researchers gain personalized and actionable feedback on patients' care experience.

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A complete compassion ecosystem
We've crafted our comprehensive training by seamlessly integrating over a decade of scientific discovery with the clinical wisdom gained from patients, families, healthcare providers, and leaders.

Online Modules

The EnACT training program consists of five online competency-based modules to develop advanced knowledge, practical skills, and the attitudes to deliver and sustain compassion. They can be taken in any order and each module is divided into smaller chapters, so you can learn at your own pace.

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Intro: The Core Components of Compassion

Charting a Course for Compassion:

Obtain the foundational knowledge about what compassion is, the science behind it, why it matters, and the core components of the EnACT program.

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Virtuous Response

Cultivating the Values and Virtues Associated with Compassion:

Discover the innate qualities and attitudes that power your capacity for compassion and the challenges that patients face in receiving it.


Seeking to Understand

Understanding the Person and Their Suffering:

Learn how to assess multifactorial suffering, establish a human connection, and the personal and relational challenges to compassion.


Relational Communicating

Developing Compassionate Communication Skills:

Develop the core communication skills associated with compassionate communication and discover how to integrate them into professional practice.


Attending to Needs

Addressing Suffering and Integrating Compassion into Practice:

Explore Whole Person Care, Learn how to develop a Compassionate Care Plan, and strategize about how to create the conditions for compassion to flourish in your workplace.

Get Started Today with our Complimentary Introductory Module

Whether you are enrolling in a single module or bundling our modules in a single purchase, you receive our intro module (1.5 CME/CPD Credits) and workbook for free with your first purchase.

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The Core Components of Compassion

Charting a Course for Compassion:

Obtain the foundational knowledge about what compassion is, why it matters, and the EnACT program.

In-Person Training

Whether you are a senior leader who wants to train providers across multiple sites within an organization or a manager of a care team, EnACT in-person training is built on the same five modules as our online modules but is delivered to teams in their workplace, can be tailored to learner and organizational needs, and is delivered by a master instructor.

The Compassion Toolkit

Designed for both individuals and teams, the Compassion Toolkit was created in partnership with patients and healthcare providers to optimize and sustain compassion. The toolkit provides practical resources and advanced tools to apply the EnACT training into practice and can be bundled with our modules or purchased separately.

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Join a growing community of accredited healthcare providers with advanced skills in delivering enhanced compassionate care.

EnACT learners receive valuable continuing professional development and continuing medical education credits that are recognized by professional organizations. Successful graduates of the EnACT program also receive certification and designation as a Certified Compassionate Care Provider.

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