Neelama Eyres is the Director of Program Development at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, (CCARE) at Stanford University. She is also Co-Founder of the Applied Compassion Training (ACT) that was formerly offered at CCARE Stanford from 2020-2023. Through ACT, Neelama has mentored hundreds of people in expanding their access to compassion and bringing compassion to life in personal, professional, and community settings worldwide. In addition to her compassion work at Stanford CCARE, Neelama continues to facilitate transformational growth workshops, trainings, and mentor people personally and professionally. She is the co-author of a personal memoir which details her journey through a Compassionate Divorce.

 

Neelama's background includes a degree in Comparative Religion. Since 2000, Neelama has worked in the field of spiritual growth and transformation in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, as a trainer and facilitator for Inner Journey Institute, of which she is also Co-Founder. For IJI, she has designed and facilitated immersive workshops and facilitator trainings geared towards helping participants embody higher levels of self-awareness, compassion, mindfulness, forgiveness, and transformation for themselves, their organizations, and their communities. 

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Throughout her career, Neelama has provided training, consulting, and executive coaching for organizations including Google, Slack, MetLife, the Alzheimer’s Association, and many more. In addition, she has trained and developed facilitators within corporations, non-profits, and healthcare organizations.

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For the past decade, Neelama has been deeply immersed in the study and practice of the contemplative Christian mystical tradition.  She has been influenced by many modern-day mystics including Father Richard Rohr, Father Thomas Keating, Cynthia Bourgeault and Adyashanti. Since 2010, she's led retreats and workshops to help people access the forgotten teachings and practices of the contemplative Christian tradition.

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Neelama’s mastery is creating interactive, immersive, and experiential learning environments that allow participants to have a direct and embodied experience of healing, transformation and compassion. Neelama’s contemplative practice combined with her extensive travels throughout Southeast Asia and India have given her an extraordinary depth of spiritual experience and knowledge of Eastern traditions which, like her studies of Western spirituality, is reflected in all her work.

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Neelama lives in Marin County, California with her husband David, her son Kai, and her bonus daughter Siena. You can learn more about Neelama here