UC San Diego’s Center for Compassionate Communication proudly presents the Spring 2026 Compassionate Communication Virtual Workshop Series

This free, skills-based program is specially designed for health care professionals, medical educators, and researchers. Through interactive sessions, participants will learn how to communicate with greater compassion—and, in turn, greater effectiveness—with patients, healthcare teams, medical trainees, and beyond.

The burden of moral distress is too often placed solely on individual healthcare providers, accompanied by calls for resilience, self-care, and the proverbial "stiff upper lip." However, a paradigm shift is underway that urges healthcare leaders to move beyond individual coping strategies and instead foster institutional culture change. This session introduces a concrete, five-step moral distress debriefing tool that integrates elements from several existing frameworks. By shifting the burden from individuals to systems, the tool fosters shared responsibility, reduces provider isolation, and promotes sustainable, values-driven practice in today’s complex and evolving healthcare environment.

Register here for this free online event. Please note, this event has been standardized to the Eastern Time Zone.