
Compassionate Inquiry® Professional Training’s BLAIPOC Group
Compassionate Inquiry® is a 330-hour, graduate level, year-long training, with a trauma-informed psychotherapeutic approach to add onto an already existing clinical and mental health practice.
This program focuses on bringing compassion, respect, acceptance, insight, healing, freedom and connection to humanity through an international community of skillful Compassionate Inquiry Practitioners. The CI Professional Training is meant for professionals who are already working with clients, such as counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists, medical doctors, naturopaths, life coaches, and other related fields, whose scope of practice includes counseling.
Program Dates: September 16, 2025 to September 29, 2026
Biweekly Meetings: Tuesdays, 1pm-2:30pm ET with Vimalasara (Dr. Valarie Mason-John)
Enrollment Limit: Maximum 18 participants
Waitlist: Maximum 10 applicants
Application Deadlines:
Applications Open: Saturday, April 19, 2025
Subsidy Application Deadline: Sunday, July 13, 2025
Subsidy Notification of Acceptance: Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Subsidy Registration & Payment Deadline: Sunday, July 27, 2025
Take the next step in your professional development and empower your clients to reconnect with their body’s innate healing processes.

About our Compassionate Inquiry Creators:

Dr. Gabor Maté:
Retired physician, bestselling author, an internationally renowned speaker and the creator of the Compassionate Inquiry approach to psychotherapy.
Dr. Maté evolved his therapeutic approach over the course of a 20-year personal journey. It emerged as a synthesis of his work with patients in family practice, palliative care, and addiction rehabilitation. He later developed the system further while facilitating integration workshops focused on healing trauma through the use of psychedelics.

Sat Dharam Kaur N.D
Co-creator and CEO of Compassionate Inquiry. She supported Dr. Gabor Maté in structuring the Compassionate Inquiry approach and developing the online training.
She is a naturopathic doctor, teacher and author, who combines naturopathic medicine with Compassionate Inquiry, yoga, breathing practices and meditation to support others in healing and integrating mind, body and spirit. She is a Compassionate Inquiry Founding Facilitator, Compassionate Inquiry Mentor as well as a Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner.