Compassion: Understood, cultivated and assessed on the modern degree

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Presenter (s): Theo Gilbert, University of Hertfordshire Dr Theo Gilberts points with urgency to pedagogically-relevant findings on the science of compassion that are fast emerging from clinical psychology, group psychotherapy and neuroscience (The Compassionate Mind Foundation). Compassion recruits emotions, but is not itself an emotion. Instead, in evolutionary terms, it emerges from a psycho-biologically embedded motivation to care. When this motivation links to the neo-cortex (where humans rationalise and imagine) compassion arises - in any (or all) of its three forms. These are: self-compassion, sensitivity to compassion from others, and compassion for others (ibid). This is a gift to the pedagogy of HE student group and team work. Regrettably, the science of compassion is much overlooked in education, at real cost to our students and to staff workloads and stress levels.

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