and engagement with complex systems, CIT focuses on and
builds toward compassionate integrity: the ability to live one’s
life in accordance with one’s values with a recognition of common
humanity, our basic orientation to kindness and reciprocity.
Trinity, Gateway and Cause for Hope are interested in having the
CIT graduates from their organizations go into CIT Facilitator
Training Course to enable them to offer CIT within their
organizations on an ongoing basis.
Professional educator, Pam Glustrom, M.Ed., serving as primary
facilitator in the upcoming session, has been seasoned by her
experience facilitating CIT and mentoring Facilitators-In-
Training at Phillips State Prison. Glustrom is affiliated with
the Charter for Compassion, the same organization with which
Michael Karlin, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Psychology at Life
University; Associate Director
of the Center for Compassion,
Integrity and Secular Ethics;
and co-author of CIT) entered
into a dynamic partnership to
offer CIT to more than a dozen
cities and sectors within its
organization.
Dr. Michael Karlin
Glustrom says, “One of the things that I realized early on was that
I wanted to do outreach to the community, and with CIT, I have the
perfect vehicle with which to reach diverse community sectors.
It is an honor to be able to deliver such an amazing program to so
many people.”
Glustrom is a Level 1 Certified CIT Facilitator and is working on
her Level 2 certification, which will enable her to not only deliver
the training on her own, but alos to certify future facilitators,
such as the Gateway, Trinity and Cause for Hope attendees, thus
creating that same pathway to facilitator certification for them.
Dr. Karlin adds, “After this training session ends in December, it
is expected that most of the trainees will want to become certified
and set up their own trainings at their respective organizations.
Ideally, we will be creating the pathway to certification in three
more organizations so that they can then continue CIT on an
ongoing basis.”
Currently, the financial burden incurred to train this valuable
program is solely borne by Life University. However, as CIT
continues to expand to even more cities and organizations,
the burden will become too great to be carried by just one
organization. So, in an effort to sustain Compassionate Integrity
Training long into the future, we kindly ask you to consider a
financial donation to further this important work. To do so, please
contact Dr. Michael Karlin at 404-234-9290 or email
[email protected] to discuss your assistance.
For more information about the CCISE or CIT, visit
Compassion.LIFE.edu.
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