| Sound Collage - Thank you | 4 |
| Advanced Organizer | 5 |
| Sound Collage - Myths about Compassion | 10 |
| PREFACE I - About this Book | 12 |
| Sound Collage - Origin of the Book | 18 |
| INTRODUCTION - Olafur Eliasson and Tania Singer in Conversation | 20 |
| Sound Collage - Questions | 27 |
| PART 1 - Experiences with Training Compassion | 28 |
| Preface II - What Do We (Not) Mean by Training? | 30 |
| Sound Collage - What We Would Like to Do | 34 |
| Chapter 1 - Teaching ourChildren | 36 |
| Sound Collage - Compassion in Education | 50 |
| Chapter 2 - Supporting Teachers in the Classroom | 52 |
| Chapter 3 - Compassion-Focused Therapy | 66 |
| Chapter 4 - Cultivating Alternative Pathsto Compassion | 82 |
| Video Segment - Non-Violent Communication | 94 |
| Sound Collage - When I am Angry... | 95 |
| Chapter 5 - Working with Emotions in the Cultivation of Compassion | 96 |
| Chapter 6 - Being with Dying | 108 |
| PART 2 - Concepts of Compassion | 122 |
| Sound Collage - Compassion is... | 124 |
| Chapter 7 - The Flow of Life | 126 |
| Sound Collage - Buddhist Voices | 150 |
| Chapter 8 - Human Suffering and the Four Immeasurables | 152 |
| Chapter 9 - Self, Interdependence and Wisdom | 166 |
| Chapter 10 - A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective | 178 |
| Chapter 11 - Kindness and Compassion as Integral to Mindfulness | 192 |
| Chapter 12 - Understanding and Cultivating Compassion in Clinical Settings | 208 |
| PART 3 - Science of Compassion | 228 |
| Chapter 13 - Mind your Hormones! | 230 |
| Chapter 14 - Being with Pain | 252 |
| Sound Collage - Empathy Versus Compassion | 270 |
| Chapter 15 - Empathy versus Compassion | 272 |
| Sound Collage - Burn-Out and Empathic Distress | 288 |
| Chapter 16 - Being Kind toYourself | 290 |
| Chapter 17 - The Science of Subjective Experience | 314 |
| Chapter 18 - The Art of EmotionalBalance | 326 |
| Chapter 19 - The Shamatha Project Adventure | 344 |
| PART 4 - Compassion Training Programs | 362 |
| Box I - The Mindful Self-Compassion Training Program | 364 |
| Box II - Cultivating Emotional Balance: Structure, Research, and Implementation | 398 |
| Box III - Cognitively-BasedCompassion Training (CBCT) – Protocol and Key Concepts | 416 |
| Box IV - Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) | 440 |
| Box V - The ReSource Training Protocol | 452 |
| Box VI - Being with Dying | 466 |
| Box VII - A Practical Guide to Classic Buddhist Meditation | 480 |
| Curriculum vitae | 492 |
| Barry Kerzin | 493 |
| Bethany E. Kok | 494 |
| Boris Bornemann | 495 |
| Brendan Ozawa de Silva | 496 |
| Brooke Dodson-Lavelle | 497 |
| Charles L. Raison | 498 |
| Christopher Germer | 499 |
| Clifford Saron | 500 |
| Diego Hangartner | 501 |
| Erika L. Rosenberg | 502 |
| Eve Ekman | 503 |
| Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi | 504 |
| Jennifer S. Mascaro | 505 |
| Ph.D. Joan Halifax | 506 |
| Jocelyn Sze | 507 |
| Joshua A. Grant | 508 |
| Kristin Neff | 509 |
| Leah Weiss | 510 |
| Margaret Kemeny | 512 |
| Matthias Bolz | 513 |
| Matthieu Ricard | 514 |
| Nathalie Singer | 515 |
| Olafur Eliasson | 516 |
| Olga Klimecki | 517 |
| Paul Ekman | 518 |
| Paul Gilbert | 519 |
| Paul Grossman | 520 |
| Regula Langemann | 521 |
| Suna Yamaner | 522 |
| Tania Singer | 523 |
| Thaddeus Pace | 524 |
| Thupten Jinpa | 525 |
| A Documentary Film - Raising Compassion | 528 |