At CCME we specialize in developing mindfulness & compassion based
Social-Emotional Learning programs for the education system and society at large.
We believe that the path towards a caring society, begins with cultivating the potential of the change agents and model figures for the next generation:
parents, educators and therapists.
Our programs are based on empirical studies and are focused on improving the well-being, awareness and social-emotional skills of educators, caregivers
and the children whom they raise.
CCME is a non-profit institution dedicated to making mindful compassionate education accessible to all populations in Israel.
Since 2014 we've trained over 2,500 educators and 250,000 students in the Israeli education system.
"My staff and students are more aware of themselves and their surroundings. You can see it in their approach to friends at recess, in the classroom climate and in the presence of the teachers, who arrive each morning lighthearted."
Shir Kedar, Tamir school principal
Co-founders and Advisory Board
Co-founders
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Clinical psychologist, senior lecturer and faculty member at the International Stress and Trauma program at Tel Aviv University. World renowned expert at coping with stress and trauma, and one of the founders of the international association Psychology Beyond Borders, which works with war, terrorism and natural disaster survivors. Dr. Berger has developed resilience programs for coping with trauma, which were translated into 15 languages and implemented in many of the world's most disastrous events. Dr. Berger is also an adviser at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University, where he collaborates in designing programs which cultivate mindfulness and compassion. Lately he has worked with the Mind and Life institute founded by H. H. the 14th Dalai Lama, in developing pedagogy which fosters civic ethics. The program written at the institute has been implemented in Israeli schools since 2014, under empirical research by Dr. Berger and Dr. Tarrasch.

Lieblich is a scholar and practitioner integrating mindfulness-based practices and theory from current psychological research and traditional Buddhism. She is the co-founder and academic director of the Mindfulness Based Therapy program at The School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University. Lieblich has also co-developed the two-year course for educators at Tel Aviv University’s School of Education, and directs school counselor supervisors at Israel’s Ministry of Education. She has been practicing and studying mindfulness for 30 years, and teaching mindfulness practice and theory for 20 years. She holds an MA in East-West psychology (1999) from The California Institute of Integral Studies. Her first book At the Edge of Ego was published in 2009 by Keter-Rimon publication, followed by the national best-seller Mindfulness - Here and now, theory and practice (2018) and Mindfulness Paths: Width of Practice in Everyday life (2020).

Rosenberg is a social entrepreneur and educator, walking the path of meditation for a decade. She specializes in developing mindfulness, movement and compassion-based educational content, and training educational teams in Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) programs. She is a senior workshops facilitator at Rhythm Therapy® for people from all walks of life. Previously a dance artist and journalist, she has been involved in peace activism, primarily through The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, Women Wage Peace and Minds of Peace. Currently, Rosenberg holds a Master degree in social psychology from Tel Aviv University.

Ricardo is a faculty member at the school of education and school of neuroscience of Tel Aviv University, with over 30 years of experience in practicing meditation and yoga. For the past decade he has integrated mindfulness into education and academic research, developing a mindfulness program for children and studying the effects of this program and others among children and teachers. Additionally, he studies the effects of mindfulness practice in adults with attention deficit disorders and/or dyslexia on cerebral, cognitive and emotional measures. Dr. Tarrasch is the co-recipient of the 2019 research grant of the Chief Scientist at the Israeli Ministry of Education.

Educational psychologist at the Psychological Public Services, and organizational consultant at the Research and Development Department of the Ministry of Education, specializing in mindful and compassionate school systems. Bogaire develops and teaches mindfulness and compassion based Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) programs and workshops for therapists, educators, children and adults to fulfill personal and social growth and wellbeing. She has also established the Mindfulness Forum for educational psychologists to enhance the integration of mindfulness-based therapy and school interventions in educational psychology. In the last decade Bogaire has been practicing yoga and learning Buddhism as a way of life. These, along with her rich background in dance in Israel and France, influence her professional work as a psychotherapist, school psychologist and organizational consultant.
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a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He has authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project.





Amir is a wellness expert with vast business and wellness experience. He is the Co-founder of Welltech Ventures and the Co-chair of the Global Wellness Summit in Israel. He is also the Chair of the Wellness Innovation Initiative as part of the Global Wellness Institute and the representative of the Global Wellness Day in Israel. He was founder, CEO and Chairman of Cloud 9 Wellness Clubs, the first exclusive professional personal training clubs in Israel. He built Cloud 9 on the groundwork of the American Fitness Together franchise which he acquired and later renamed Cloud 9. In addition, Amir was the COO of Arizen Real-Estate Development, a company specializing in real-estate development. Prior to that, he served as COO of A.Y.R.A.D, a family holding company mainly invested in hi-tech and real-estate. Amir holds a M.Sc. with honors in Sports Management from St. Thomas University, Miami, Florida and is certified as a personal trainer and as a Wellness coach.
