This book is a practice-based approach to compassion meditation training that equips readers with skills to bring compassion directly into their everyday lives. It sits within the secular mindfulness tradition and is a unique fusion of Buddhist, evolutionary, and psychological approaches to compassion and includes insights from neuroscience. It is based on the authors' experiences over the last decade of training hundreds of people in compassion meditation, including at the Master's degree level. It proceeds gradually, building capacity in stages. It starts with mindfulness and proceeds to self-compassion and then compassion for others, with a final chapter focusing on socially engaged compassion. It is a companion to our earlier successful book, published by O-Books, Mindfulness Based Living Course.

About the Author
Heather began training in Mindfulness with Rob Nairn in 2004. She is a British Wheel of Yoga trained yoga teacher, has a PGDip in Mindfulness Based Approaches and a Masters Degree in Studies in Mindfulness. In 2010 Heather co-founded the Mindfulness Association (www.mindfulnessassociation.net) which is now one of the largest Mindfulness Training and Mindfulness Teacher Training organisations in the UK. She lives in Lockerbie, UK.

A monk within the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, Choden (aka Sean McGovern) completed a three-year, three-month retreat in 1997 and has been a practicing Buddhist since 1985. He co-wrote the bestselling Mindful Compassion with Prof. Paul Gilbert in 2013. He lives in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, UK.


Book Information
ISBN 9781803416762
Author Heather Regan-Addis
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Mantra Books
Publisher Collective Ink