Plasticity of the Compassionate Brain

"PRESENCE: Cultivate attentional skills \& interoceptive body awareness. 2 exercises: Breathing Meditation \& Body Scan.~PERSPECTIVE: Focus on cognitive aspects of compassion; take perspectives on thoughts, the self, \& other people; observe more macroscopic dynamics within oneself, your inner parts; do not fully identify with them / be aware of their transiency; strengthen the ability to detach from one's own perspective, take the perspectives of others, trying to understand their thoughts, motives, feelings. 2 exercises: Observing-thoughts Meditation \& Perspective Dyad.~AFFECT: Cultivate emotional/motivational aspects of compassion; cultivate a sense of benevolence, love, care, opening the heart for oneself and others; work with obstacles, e.g. fear, anger or sadness (emotion acceptance); pro-social motivations as an alley towards loving / benevolent feelings and as a consequence of them. 2 exercises: Loving-kindness Meditation \& Affect Dyad."

As specified above however the order is interchanged between the cohorts TC1 and TC2.

"AFFECT: Cultivate emotional/motivational aspects of compassion; cultivate a sense of benevolence, love, care, opening the heart for oneself and others; work with obstacles, e.g. fear, anger or sadness (emotion acceptance); pro-social motivations as an alley towards loving / benevolent feelings and as a consequence of them. 2 exercises: Loving-kindness Meditation \& Affect Dyad."