in the last 10 years, compassion meditation and loving kindness meditation have been the subject of increasing clinical interest. this is consistent with the growth of publications relating compassion meditation and loving kindness meditation in mainstream Western meditative culture, a number of novel interventions have been formulated with the intention of opera-tionalizing compassion meditation and loving kindness meditation as palatable tecniques for western service users. Of notable interest is an intervention known as cognitive based compassion therapy.
cognitive based compassion therapy is a group based, 6-week long secularized intervention based on the Tibetan Buddhist mind training technique. Participants attend weekly or twice-weekly classes ranging from 50 min to 2 hr duration and receive instruction on meditative practices intended to cultivate self-compassion and compassion