Current Focus:  How Compassion Works: A Step-By-Step Guide to Cultivating Well-Being, Love, and Wisdom

We are currently engaged in an open-ended exploration of How Compassion Works by John Makransky and Paul Condon.

Drawing from Tibetan contemplative traditions, attachment theory, and cognitive science, the book introduces a progressive series of meditations designed to strengthen mindfulness, presence, and resilience. These practices help us deepen compassion while avoiding empathic distress, compassion fatigue, or burnout.

Organized into three modes—receptive, deepening, and inclusive—the framework guides us in cultivating unconditional care and wise discernment from within.

Accessible and flexible, How Compassion Works can be integrated with any religious or spiritual background, while also offering a secular approach for those seeking practices grounded in universal human experience.