Exclusive Training Launches During National Compassionate Leadership Week at Regis College
BAR HARBOR, ME / ACCESS Newswire / August 1, 2025 / As part of the upcoming National Compassionate Leadership Week (September 8-14, 2025), the TramutoPorter Foundation is proud to announce a transformative new leadership training program for educators. This event will be held on September 11, 2025, from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM ET at Regis College Fine Arts Center. Compassionate Leadership Week was permanently designated to the Foundation in 2022 by the National Day Calendar.
This exclusive, invitation-only training will gather approximately 50 faculty members, professors, and teachers from academic institutions affiliated with the Foundation’s scholarship programs. Designed to empower educators to lead with compassion in a rapidly evolving world, the training focuses on self-compassion as the foundation for developing compassionate leadership in future generations.
“Before we can inspire compassion in others, we must learn to extend it to ourselves,” said Donato Tramuto, co-founder of the TramutoPorter Foundation and author of The Double Bottom Line: How Compassionate Leaders Captivate Hearts and Deliver Results. “Educators play a critical role in shaping the hearts and minds of tomorrow’s leaders. This program helps ensure they are equipped to lead with clarity, humanity, and purpose.”
Program Highlights Include:
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Leadership Workshop with Donato Tramuto: A working session centered on activating the principles from The Double Bottom Line to bring compassion into action across classrooms and campuses.
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Interactive Panel Discussion: The panel will focus on the importance of caring for one’s own needs and the science behind the mind-body connection in compassionate leadership. Featured speakers include Donato Tramuto; Dr. Michael Donnino, MD, Director of the Mind-Body Research Group at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston; Patricia Howard, Lead Mind-Body Instructor; Nisa Patel, Chief Governance Officer at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights; and Chantelle Ferguson, Inner Child & Emotional Healing Practitioner and Somatic & Self-Compassion Integration Specialist.
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Peer Collaboration and Active Learning: Attendees will engage in collaborative exercises and conversations to explore shared challenges in today’s disrupted education landscape.
A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity: Italy Educator Cohort
One educator will be selected for a fellowship opportunity to join an international cohort, at the Foundation’s November 4th event at Collegio Ghislieri, a historic academic institution in Italy dating back to the 1500s. This educator will engage with global leaders in education, develop a deeper understanding of how to integrate compassion-based instruction into educational programs, and return home with new tools to share within their community.
About the TramutoPorter Foundation
Founded in 2001 by Donato Tramuto and Jeffrey Porter, the TramutoPorter Foundation was created in memory of friends lost on September 11th. For over two decades, it has become a global force for advancing compassionate leadership in business, education, healthcare, and human rights. The Foundation has partnered with nearly 140 organizations and provided scholarships and grants that have impacted tens of thousands of individuals across the world.
Scholarship partners include Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Regis College, Boston University School of Public Health, Lasell University, St. Joseph’s College, Jefferson School of Population Health, and several high schools throughout Maine where the Foundation has established permanent scholarships.
Why Now
Recent leadership research highlights a growing recognition: self-compassion is essential for sustainable, high-impact leadership. Unlike empathy alone, compassionate leadership combines care with action. This program is designed to teach educators how to model that principle, starting with themselves, and pass it on to students through intentional, values-based learning.
This training marks the inaugural global initiative for educators under the Foundation’s broader Compassionate Leadership movement. Participants will leave equipped to integrate these principles into both personal and professional spheres-and help shape a more compassionate generation of leaders.
Event Details:
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Date: September 11, 2025
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Time: 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM ET
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Location: Regis College Fine Arts Center
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Cost: Complimentary for selected educators
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Special Opportunity: One educator will be selected for the Italy Cohort Experience (November 2025)
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Registration: By invitation only. Visit tramutofoundation.com to learn more.
“This is more than a workshop,” said Tramuto. “It’s a movement. And you, our educators, are at the center of it.”
Join the TramutoPorter Foundation this September in building a future led by compassion.
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SOURCE: Donato Tramuto
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