A wonderful e-book on compassion and how to cultivate it, nourish it and train it was published today by Tania Singer and Matthias Bolz at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. Bringing together many fields of study and practice, the book gives a wide panorama of the compassion problem: How do human beings learn to care for each other? Truly an important challenge in terms of knowledge and practice. The book has beautiful art work by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson at whose Studio in Berlin the book was presented.

The book is available for free download in several formats at the info page for the scientifically based project of practical importance.

Also available is a 38-minute film on many of the issues involved:

Raising Compassion from Studio Olafur Eliasson on Vimeo.

The e-book is mentioned in my recent Danish-laguage book “Vær nær” on empathy, compassion and social connectedness. Parts of the book were vailable for me in writing the book. I thank Singer and Bolz for their courtesy.