What is Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living?

28th January, 2026

Course leader Ollie Frame introduces our 8-week online course Mindfulness-based Compassionate Living course, explaining what you'll experience if you participate.

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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

"The course is designed as a follow-up to mindfulness programmes and it introduces a whole range of heart-based practices.

What are examples of compassion and self-compassion practices?

Compassion practices, metta or loving-kindness practices, and various shorter practices too, some only a few minutes long, like the self-compassion break.

And for many people it's so transformational to put the emphasis on on warmth, on compassion, on acceptance and kindness in their practice, when they do that in their practice.

And yeah, for many it's a real turning point in their lives and also on their meditation journey.

I think this is especially true of us folk in The West, where we're in the habit of being really quite pushy and critical and harsh with ourselves.

And in fact, we tend to treat ourselves so badly in a way that we wouldn't treat a friend, for example.

So this applies in our everyday life, but also in our meditation practice, where we can be constantly striving to get it right and constantly judging ourselves.

So the course is really like an exploration of this relationship that we have with ourselves, as well as the relationship that we have with other people, of course.

 

What does neuroscience say about compassion practices?

Another really interesting thing about the course is how it draws on neuroscience to highlight the mismatch between parts of the brain, which evolved in some cases millions of years ago, with the challenges of being a modern human.

And this understanding of our predicament is really the foundation for much greater compassion for ourselves and also the foundation for navigating these challenges much better.

 

How does learning self-compassion and compassion help?

So I really hope you'll join me on this journey and find out just how different life can feel when instead of dismissing or denying or fighting our suffering, we can learn to soothe it instead.

And when instead of judging ourselves or berating ourselves, we can learn to support and encourage ourselves.

So I really hope you'll join me on the journey and I look forward to seeing you then".