Overview: 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.

Verdict: Based on the authors’ experiences over the last decade of training hundreds of people in compassion meditation, including at the Master’s degree level, Compassion Based Living Course 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.

In what is a brilliantly constructed, wholly impassioned and dutifully intriguing new prose, this book is more than just a study in practical DIY for those who might be interested in the aforementioned Compassion Based Living Course, moreover it will have you enthralled from the off and hopefully, come the end, you will have greatly benefited from the content held within along with perhaps even the discussed course.

About the Authors - Heather Regan-Addis 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 from the University of Bangor, Wales and a Masters Degree in Studies in Mindfulness from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

In 2010 she co-founded the Mindfulness Association ( www.mindfulnessassociation.net) which is now one of the largest Mindfulness Training and Mindfulness Teacher Training organizations in the UK and of which she is currently the Managing Director.

She teaches Mindfulness, Compassion and Insight courses and leads the team that developed and delivers the Mindfulness Teacher Training program to teach the 8 week Mindfulness Based Living Course (MBLC).

Choden (aka Sean McGovern) is a monk within the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, who completed a three year, three month retreat in 1997 and has been a practicing Buddhist since 1985. He is originally from South Africa where he trained as a lawyer and learned meditation under the guidance of Rob Nairn, an internationally renowned Buddhist teacher.

He is now involved in developing secular mindfulness and compassion programs drawing upon the wisdom and methods of the Buddhist tradition, as well as contemporary insights from psychology and neuroscience.

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