This eight step programme provides a way of learning how to face the pressures of modern living, teaching us to cultivate kindness and compassion. "In these pages you will find a very well researched and beautifully written account of how and why training ourselves in mindful compassion can lead to a meaningful, healthier and happier life with greater social harmony." - From the Foreword by Paul Gilbert "With tremendous wisdom and skill this book offers a way to deepen and develop the learning that has started in an 8-week course of MBSR or MBCT...?A wonderful contribution." - Rebecca Crane, Director of Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University, UK, and author of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (Routledge, 2009). "...?a compelling guide, skilfully conveying how compassion can be cultivated in the service of relieving suffering." Willem Kuyken, PhD, Professor Clinical Psychology at the University of Exeter. His work with people with mood disorders spans twenty years, and is focussed on mindfulness mechanisms, clinical trials and implementation.?He is author (with Christine A. Padesky and Robert Dudley) of Collaborative Case Conceptualization (The Guilford Press, 2011). ?