Sustainable Compassion Training: Integrating Meditation Theory With Psychological Science
Frontiers in Psychology September 11, 2020 P. Condon, John Makransky
Meditation programs adapted for modern settings often lose traditional contextual factors that support well-being. Sustainable Compassion Training (SCT) aims to recover those factors by drawing on Tibetan Buddhism in dialogue with caregivers, other contemplative traditions, and scientific theories. SCT is designed to help people cultivate increasingly unconditional, inclusive, and sustainable care for self and others, flexibly meeting diverse modern needs. The article provides an overview of SCT meditations, including contemplative and scientific theories that highlight important features, and generates novel hypotheses from this dialogical process.