Compassion''s Compass - Strategies for Developing Insight, Kindness, and Empathy

Compassion’s COMPASS: Strategies for Developing Kindness and Insight offers a systematic approach to developing compassionate insight that has been adapted from Tibetan mind training strategies, secularized for modern audiences, and supplemented with relevant research, anecdotes, and exercises in accessible language. This book contains easy exercises for regaining composure, boosting compassionate insight, preventing compassion fatigue, and maintaining compassion resilience.

List of contents

Foreword by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 The Foundation Practice of Mindfulness
3 Core Practices for Developing Compassion
4 Equanimity
5 Gratitude
6 Kindness
7 Compassion
8 Giving and Taking
9 Activation
10 Goal-Focused Compassion
11 Core Practices for Developing Analytical Insight
Appendix: A COMPASS Handbook for Helping Professionals
References
Index

About the author

Wilson C. Hurley is adjunct professor at George Mason University and a clinical social worker in private practice in Centreville, VA. He specializes in working with children, adolescents and families, but also works with adults in individual and couples therapy. His publications include Enhancing a Positive School Climate with Compassion and Analytical Selective-Focus Skills, IISTE Journal of Education and Practice, and The Water and Wood Shastras, which he co-translated from Tibetan with Yeshe Khedrup. His website is: http://compassmethods.com/

Product details

• Authors: Wilson Hurley, Wilson C. Hurley
• Assisted by: His Holiness The XIV Dalai Lama (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781538141823
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4182-3
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy: counselling, PSYCHOLOGY / Education, Training & Supervision