Timothy Harrison serves as Associate Director for CBCT® (Cognitively Based Compassion Training) at the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics at Emory University. In this role, he oversees the center’s CBCT programs, including the teacher certification program and the implementation of CBCT for research purposes.
As a Senior Instructor, Tim has taught CBCT in many contexts, including to numerous teachers and staff in the Atlanta Public Schools through a Department of Education-funded program to support new teacher residents. He has also taught CBCT widely in healthcare settings to clinicians at the Cleveland Clinic and the Cambridge Health Alliance and to nurses through the Emory Nursing Professional Development Center, to students at the Emory School of Medicine and chaplains in Emory’s hospitals. He has instructed CBCT for teens in foster care, incarcerated individuals, to college students and HIV+ patients.
Tim has consulted on a number of peer-reviewed published research projects with special populations, including veterans with PTSD, breast cancer survivors, and parents of autistic children. He has a professional degree in architecture from Harvard University and practiced design, as well as different forms of meditation, for two decades before training in CBCT and joining the Compassion Center at Emory in 2013.
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