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Acts of Kindness in Daily Life
The behavioural wing of compassion training: deliberately practising generosity, hospitality or kindness toward specific people — someone close, someone neutral, someone difficult — and toward the wider world (voluntary work, hosting, conscious consumption). Compassion trained by doing compassionate things, with the inner ability following the outer act.
- Kindness toward a difficult person is advanced practice — start where goodwill is genuine, not performed
- Watch helper's over-extension; compassion includes yourself (the report's own sequence starts with self-compassion)
Practical
- Time
- 0-60 min
- Group
- 1–1 · individual
- Settings
- self-guided
- Materials
- None
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, behavioral-rehearsal, emotional-processing
- Change scope
- skill · recurring-practice (small acts woven into ordinary weeks)
Instructions
- Where
- drive.google.com/file/d/1I0ThTPl75h3M6iLzZ7KgYOsiLcrZw3Bw/view — IDG Phase 2 Research Report & Toolkit (2022), open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link not checkable automatically — the page renders in the browser rather than in the response; last read by hand 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Compassion training programs (behavioural component); ancient practice — Compassion cultivation; prosocial-behaviour research
In this directory via IDG Phase 2 Research Report & Toolkit (2022) · Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT)
The Phase 2 report grounds this in its survey data (volunteering, hosting a refugee family, conscious consumption as inner-development practice) — which is why Conscious Use of Resources (A3) appears in the mapping.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25