ABSTRACT
With the rise of an awareness of the power of prosocial, compassionate interactions for well-being, and how their opposite is linked to mental distress, there has been a growth of different approaches to help people cultivate compassion for themselves and others. There are a range of practices that texture compassion focused therapies (CFT) to help build the compassionate competencies within the client. CFT seeks to create the conditions in the therapy, and within the patient, to provide for the stabilising experiences of the secure base and safe haven, feeling valued, with the competencies for empathy and intersubjectivity that enable individuals to understand their own minds and that of others. One of the most important therapeutic CFT challenges can be because people experience fears of compassion. The core focus of the CFT therefore is less trying to remove or correct something than trying to develop and cultivate the best of us – conducive to the flourishing and well-being in all.
