Conscious Compassionate Communication (CCC)

A linguistic toolkit for relationally expressing constructively creative awareness – to foster collaboration and support others in unfolding their consciousness through communication.

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We create reality through language

The way we use language fundamentally shapes the quality of our collaboration, the depth of our relationships, and determines how we feel in the world.

When we experience the inner, transformative power of compassion, a natural question arises:

How can we sustain and deepen this quality in our relationships with others:

in collaborative processes,
in our personal relationships,
in our connection with ourselves, and
in how we support others to act more and more from their own conscious, compassionate presence?

The key lies in the quality and awareness of our communication.
In how we relate and communicate:

with ourselves, in our inner world,
with others, in our connections,
and ultimately, how authentically we express all this through our actions.

What does CCC offer?

Master a framework and toolkit of compassionate and wise speech that is built on genuine connection and the cultivation of consciousness.

The program aims to empower you to show up in conversations — with yourself and others — in an authentic, clear, and compassionate way.

Why is this approach special?

Because conscious compassionate communication is built on the inherent qualities of pure mind, including:

personal responsibility,
individual integrity,
humility and authenticity,
mutually beneficial agreements,
respect and care,
clear commitment, and
fearless, courageous action.

These values are not only the foundational pillars of conscious leadership and collaboration — they also represent the deepest, most authentic layers of our humanity.
These qualities form the essence of our human being.
When you operate from them, you are likely to become not only more successful but also more conscious.

However, if these qualities are pushed into the background, success may come, but sooner or later, it will be at the cost of authenticity and inner balance and peace.

Now the question sounds different:

What is your choice when speaking?

Who is the CCC for?

The CCC learning space is for you if...

You take responsibility and are committed to nurturing the consciousness that lives within you as one of the central tasks of your life.
You are ready not only to reflect on consciousness or practice on a meditation cushion, but to increasingly embody it in your relationships and actions.
Your goal is to create and nurture personal and professional relationships guided by constructiveness and conscious co-creation, based on mutual respect and appreciation.
You want not just to survive, but to live life together with dignity.
You regard your relationships as spaces for practising loving-kindness and compassion — places where you can also raise your own consciousness through what you do and how you do it, while supporting others on the same inner journey.
You believe that by walking this path, you are moving ever closer to greater inner peace and harmony.

The CCC offers a communication framework, along with tools and an approach, that helps you maintain a compassionate perspective in your connections.

The real work of cultivating consciousness by your speech begins here!

That moment comes when you develop your personal strategy for conscious, truthful speech and put it into practice: in specific situations, authentically and with integrity.

Not only when everything is fine, but especially when it’s difficult – during conflicts, uncertainty, emotionally challenging relationships, or under pressure.

Because these moments are the true tests — when practice confirms how much you can realise in action what you already know or wish to embody in theory — especially under tough circumstances.

And there is no need to fear failure.

Because even when things don’t go well in the outer world, we never truly fail in our inner world — instead, we can learn and grow.

This is the path to cultivate ever higher consciousness, where obstacles become the tools of our ascent.

The CCC builds on the CCT – and enables us to embody it in how we relate to others through our communication

In the CCT, we experienced the power of compassion and loving-kindness — the mindset and intention that can drive genuine transformation within our inner world.

The CCC brings this inner quality outward through speech in relationships.
It supports us in expressing compassion not only toward ourselves but also toward others — consciously, consistently, and authentically, in both our personal and professional relationships.

So that compassion, expressed through our words and deeds, can truly become wise, constructive, and a powerful catalyst for conscious change in the world..

Following a structure similar to the CCT, the program continues as follows:

12-week program
Weekly two-hour group sessions — including teaching, group practices, individual and shared reflections
Daily meditation practices
Weekly assignments to help us practice conscious, compassionate communication in our relationships — especially in emotionally challenging or complex conflict situations.

Would you like to start the CCC with the experiential foundations of the CCT?

Join the intensive CCT course starting in September 2025, which will help you deepen your practice of compassion over four Friday afternoons, beginning on September 12.

The course will finish before the CCC begins, giving you the opportunity to experience the transformative power of the CCT — and step into the CCC process with this foundation.

You can read more about the other Compassion Dynamics courses in 2025, and how they build on each other here.

The CCC is a 12-week, group-based training program with weekly sessions. During the first eight weeks, each session consists of three main components::

Joint Exploration of Theoretical Material
We interpret and process the relevant chapters from Fred Kofman’s book, Conscious Business, together. Participants are expected to have studied the assigned chapters, reviewed the shared slide decks, and watched the related videos prior to the session. This part of the session focuses on building a shared understanding and clarifying any questions that may arise.
Learning and Applying Practical Tools
In the second part of each session, communication tools that support the practical implementation of the framework are introduced. Participants then break into small groups to try out these tools and share their experiences. The focus is on learning to use the tools effectively and reflecting together on the hands-on experience.
Cultivating a Compassionate Attitude
The closing section of each session focuses on developing an attitude of compassion. Through guided meditation or contemplation, participants are invited into a deeper, theme-specific inner experience, allowing the theoretical knowledge to become emotionally grounded and fully integrated.

During the final four weeks, the focus shifts to integrating the framework elements into real-life contexts. Participants are invited to bring real-life situations for group discussion and can also prepare for their real-life challenging conversations through role-play-based practice.

The table below summarises the 12-week curriculum.

Week	Perspective to Cultivate	Tool	Compassionate Wisdom
1.	(1) Introduction (2) The three layers of consciousness: Impersonal, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal (3) The Conscious Compassionate Communication model	Defect is a treasure	The suffering caused by functioning exclusively in the impersonal dimension (i.e., outcome-, expectation-, goal-, or profit-oriented thinking)
2.	Bring awareness to the gap	Awareness in 3+1 dimensions	Constructively recognising the tension that leads to rising consciousness: illuminating the heart’s intention
3.	Unconditional responsibility and essential integrity	Player vs. victim mindset	Walk your path to fully live your life, and be a collaborative partner in mine
4.	Ontological arrogance vs. ontological humility Self-directed vs. self-transforming mind	Mental models and the ladder of inference	An invitation to mutual learning by integrating different perceptions of personal realities
5.	Authentic communication	Speaking my truth in a constructive way "Toxic Waste" preprocessing	Supporting authentic speech and encouraging honesty in others
6.	Constructive Negotiation	Mutually Beneficial Agreements	Cultivating an attitude of collaboration
7.	Impeccable Coordination	Commitment — Consciously linking Intention, Thought, and Speech to Action	Supporting awareness of the “inner project manager”
8.	Emotional Mastery	Transforming one’s own and others’ Emotions from Toxic to Hygienic — link to CCT	Compassionate support for the emotional regulation of self and others
Practicum
9 – 12.	Practice-based group sessions focused on integrating and applying the learned material to real-life situations and role plays.

Could cultivating awareness be integrated into your work?

The Bodhisattva’s Way in the Modern Business World

atisha1 Bodhisattva is a sentient being dedicated to the path of ever-increasing consciousness.
The central element of the Mahayana Buddhist perspective is the Bodhisattva path: a deep inner commitment that, while cultivating our awareness, we also support others in their inner development.
This path is built on compassion, wisdom, and service of the greater good, without turning away from the world.
Thus, a Bodhisattva is not perfect but one who is on the path: a person who dedicates the challenges of everyday life to their inner transformation and the support of others.

The CCC program builds on this—perhaps previously unconscious but deeply present in everyone—inner drive: the intention arising from the recognition that the development of our consciousness is intertwined with supporting the growth of those we relate to.
This can be seen as a modern form of the Bodhisattva path — in the context of everyday life or organisational functioning at work.

Through practising CCC, we recognize that as leaders, colleagues, or simply as human beings, we are not only responsible for business results or social outcomes but also for creating a more conscious, compassionate environment through our presence, words, and actions.

The program rests on three pillars:

the theoretical framework,
the practical toolkit, and
compassionate attitude as an inner foundation, which supports us in embodying this way of being in concrete situations.

Conscious practice is not merely a cognitive process: shaping our inner world, deepening self-awareness, and transforming fears and painful emotional patterns enable us to provide “invisible support” to others even through everyday communication.

Thus, every conversation becomes an opportunity — not only for connection but also for inner growth.
And in this, we all become co-players in each other’s vertical journey.

Perhaps this is the true meaning of what we do:

We leave a mark in the hearts of others not first and foremost by our actions, deeds, or words — but by the way we showed up, through the living example of our humanity..

1. The Theoretical Framework

The foundation of the course is Fred Kofman’s book, available in English.

Between group sessions, as part of individual preparation, we read the book chapter by chapter. Your learning will be supported by access to presentation slides summarising the book’s content, as well as videos from previous sessions that explain the material in more detail.

The group sessions aim to deepen your understanding of the mindset presented in the book, to discuss the content together, and to clarify any questions that arise.

The diagram below summarises the essence of the awareness-based approach introduced in the book:

2. The Practical Toolkit

Fred Kofman’s book presents not only a perspective but a comprehensive methodology that serves both as a coaching approach and as a communication toolkit for conscious leadership.

The CCC becomes truly alive and effective when the elements of this methodology are shared during the course. You’ll not only learn about these tools, but also have the chance to apply and deepen them through small-group practices. In the final four weeks, you’ll work with your real-life cases, transforming what you’ve learned into conscious communication skills — all supported by the shared attention and learning environment of the group.

This methodology — known as Conscious Business Coaching — is not publicly available.

I had the opportunity to study it five years ago in a training, and since then I’ve shared it with several groups. As a coach, I’ve supported dozens of leaders in consciously untangling emotionally difficult, conflictual, or complex situations — and in communicating them in ways that lead to fruitful outcomes, clarify and strengthen relationships, and contribute to greater inner peace.

3. Engaged Compassion

„If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.”

Learning conscious communication and leadership — understanding the mindset, practicing the tools — is a vital step.
Yet these can only speak authentically through us when loving-kindness and compassion are no longer just concepts, but lived inner experiences — and when we commit to cultivating them more deeply.

The CCC starts from the assumption that participants have already encountered the inner experience of loving-kindness and compassion — for example, through CCT (Compassion Cultivation Training) or similar contemplative practices. This inner foundation is our starting point.

The Conscious Compassionate Communication is a further development of the Conscious Business Coaching approach, making explicit use of loving-kindness and compassion as foundational pillars of consciousness.
Throughout the course, special emphasis is placed on how the conscious business mindset and tools can embody and manifest compassionate, wise action, not merely on a cognitive level, but as felt experience, speech, deed and personal commitment.

Beyond discussions and reflection, we deepen this connection through specific meditation practices, evolved from the original CCT meditations and tailored to the unique context of CCC.

The CCC course begins in autumn 2025 and will be held online via Zoom in Hungarian.

Start date: October 10, 2025

We will meet on Friday afternoons from 14:00 to 16:00 CET.

Group session dates:

October 10, 17, 31
November 7, 14, 21, 28
December 5, 12, 19
January 16, 23

You can also find the schedule in the Google Calendar in this section.

The next CCC cohort is expected to begin in spring 2026.

Conscious Compassionate Communication (CCC)