The Cascais Compassiva Project is promoted by the Oficina da Compaixão Association and aims to create community care networks that, sensitised, informed and trained, guarantee compassionate, collaborative, safe and effective care in the physical, emotional, social and spiritual dimensions for people with advanced chronic illness and/or at the end of life and their families, raising the sense of Compassion as an integral part of the community's identity. Thus, caring for people at the end of life implies the fulfilment of all their needs, the alleviation of all types of suffering, and should be a responsibility of everyone as a community, not only of health and social services. This is the basis of Compassionate Communities and is the starting point of the work of the Compassion Workshop.