A heuristic model of enactive compassion
Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative CarePublished 1 June 2012
Joan Halifax
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The Halifax Model of Compassion is presented here as a new vision of compassion with particular relevance for the training of compassion in clinicians, and its premise that compassion is dispositionally enactive, and it is a process that is contingent and emergent.
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Compassion is in general seen as having two main components: the affective feeling of caring for one who is suffering and the motivation to relieve suffering. This definition of compassion might impose limitations and will, therefore, have consequences on how one trains compassion in clinicians and others. It is the author's premise that compassion is dispositionally enactive (the interactions between living organisms and their environments, i.e., the propensity toward perception-action in relation to one's surrounds), and it is a process that is contingent and emergent.
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