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Handouts, Poems, Quizzes and Videos
This section provides PDF's of helpful handouts, meditations, poems and quizzes for your own personal use, to assist in your practice of mindfulness and self-compassion.
The purpose of the handouts, meditations and poem is to complement the mindfulness and self-compassion programs that we provide. The quizzes are only an indication and are not meant to be diagnostic.
Please note that the advice given in the handouts are of a general nature only and does not take into account particular conditions or situations. The handouts do not replace therapy and the quizzes do not replace diagnostic assessments. For further assistance please contact our psychologist Marie Bloomfield by email [email protected]
Click on the handout, meditation, poem or quiz of your choice to download the PDF for your own personal use only.
Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Handouts
- A Self-Compassion Break
- Extra Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices
- Caring for others with equanimity
- Collection of Equanimity Phrases
- Introduction to Compassionate Mind Training or Compassion-Focus Therapy
- Six Steps in Forgiveness
- The Three Emotional System by Paul Gilbert in Compassion-Focused Therapy
- Compassionate Mind Training and the Three Flow of Compassion
Meditation Scripts
- Forgiveness Meditation by Jack Kornfield
- Loving-Kindness Meditation for Couples
- Loving-Kindness Meditation for Everyone
- Loving-Kindness Meditation for a Loved One
- Soft Landing Meditation
Quizzes
- Fears of Compassion Scale by the Compassionate Mind Foundation
- Professional Quality of Live Scale (PROQOL) VERSION 5 (2009)(Compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue measure) by B. Hudnall Stamm, 2009-2012
- Professional Self-Care Scale Katherine Elizabeth Dorociak
- Self Compassion Scale (Kritin Neff, 2003) Self Compassion versus Self-Coldness Measure
- Self-Compassion Scale by Kristin Neff (Short-form) 2010
- The Forms of Self-Criticising/attacking & Self-Reassuring (FSCRS) by the Compassionate Mind Foundation
- The Compassionate Engagement and Action Scales by the Compassionate Mind Foundation
Poems
- A Blessing for Presence by John O’Donohue
- Aimless Love by Billy Collins
- Allow by Danna Faulds
- Anthems by Leonard Cohen
- A Return to Love (excerpt) by Marianne Williamson
- As you are... by Nayyirah Waheed
- Awakening Rights by Mark Nepo
- Beannacht (“Blessing”) by John O’Donohue
- Be gentle with your mind by Steve Taylor
- Belonging by John O’Donohue
- Birdwings by Rumi
- Compassion by Miller Williams
- Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte
- Forgiveness prayers by Eric Kolvig
- From Out of the Cave by Joyce Sutphen
- I am enough by Emma Seppala
- I’ll Be Always Loving you by Trisha Watts
- "Imperfection" by Elizabeth Carlson
- Japanese Bowl: Reflections of A Poem by Peter Mayer
- Just For Me by Anon
- Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
- Love after Love by Derek Walcott
- My Balm by Jane O’Shea
- My beloved child, break your heart no longer by Swami Kripalu, Bapuji
- Myself and My Person by Anna Swir (Swirscynska)
- Messenger by Mary Oliver
- One Morning by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
- On Silence by Barbara Hurd
- Please Call Me by My True Names by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Prayer before the prayer by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu
- Saint Francis and the Sow by Galway Kinnell
- Second Sight by David Whyte
- Start Close In by David Whyte
- The Journey by Mary Oliver
- The Guest House by Rumi
- There are only two feelings by Michael Leunig
- There's a Hole in My Sidewalk: The Romance of Self-Discovery by Portia Nelson
- The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
- The Velveteen Rabbit (excerpt) by Margery Williams
- The Way It Is by William Stafford
- The Word by Tony Hoagland
- This Body is Not Me by Thich Nhat Hanh
- This Constant lover by John Astin
- Unconditional by Jennifer Welwood
- When I am among the trees by Mary Oliver
- Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
- With That Moon Language by Hafiz
APPS
- The Self Compassion App (based on the CFT model) on iPhone only but will be available on androids early next year
- Mindfulness Bell
- Mindfulness Bell/Plum Village
- IBreathe-Relax & Breathe for IPhone
- IBreathe- Relax & Breathe for Androids
VIDEO LINKS
- "A Good Day" With Brother David Steindl-Rast
- Breaking the cycle of competitive detachment by Darcia Narvaez
- Introduction to Loving Kindness with Sharon Salzberg and Dan Harris
- Loving Kindness song by Karen Drucker
- Ten-Day Loving Kindness Challenge with Sharon Salzberg
- Patti Smith performs Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" - Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2016
- Resilience Training for Healthcare Workers
- The Loving kindness Song -Charity Kahn
- "The Fly" by Hanjin Song
- Self-Compassion in the Midst of a Pandemic with Drs Kristin Neff and Chris Germer
- The Nature of Compassion, Fear, Safe Relating and World Change: Fifteen video on Compassionate Mind Training, presented by clinical psychologist Prof Paul Gilbert OBE, pioneer of Compassion Focused Therapy to help us to deal with the Pandemic.
- Yin and Yang of Self-Compassion dance - Buenos Aires, 2019
Recommended books on self-compassion
Experiencing Compassion-Focused Therapy from the inside out by R. Kolts, T. Bell, J. Bennett-Levy, & C. Irons, 2018
Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook by Kristin Neff & Christopher Germer, 2018
Fierce Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff, 2021
Living with an open heart by Russell Kolts & Thubten Chodron, 2012
The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert, 2013
Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and Joy by Shauna Shapiro, 2020