Compassion Meditation vs. Social Vulnerability: Effects on Individual and Collective Well-Being

INTERVENTION: Behavioural Emotions Empathy Meditation ntervention Group: will receive CBCT® Training Cognitively Based Compassion Training is a compassionate meditation program developed by Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Ph.D. The program is secular and comes from the practices of Tibetan meditation (lojong), based on the ancient tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, having been modified in order to become completely secular, without being dependent on any particular doctrine or religious belief. This training is based on cognition that deliberately and systematically works the cultivation of compassion through progressive meditative exercises, beginning with the development of attention stability and progressing through various analytical meditations. The person gets a vision of how attitudes and behaviors sustain or hinder compassionate response. The practice of CBCT® intensifies the desire to help others by allowing compassion to become more natural and spontaneous in their daily lives. This also helps increase personal resilience by basing the person on realistic expectations of self and others. It is divided into six modules. Will be invited 100 people, 50% will participate in 8 meetings of the CBCT, weekly, with duration 2 hours and daily practices of the 15 minutes through audios that will be made available with the practices. Control group: 50% will go through activities developed by the NGO (visits, educational workshops, permaculture actions, talk wheels) to be held weekly, lasting up to 2 hours Other Stress, Psychological CONDITION: Empathy Health Promotion Social Vulnerability Social vulnerability; Compassion; Well‐being; ; Social Vulnerability ; Health Promotion ; Empathy PRIMARY OUTCOME: Increase in the positive affect score by 5% above the mean and maintenance of the same at the end of the intervention; Reduction of negatives by 5% and maintenance of reduction by 5% at the end of the intervention; PANAS‐X Adapted (Positive Affect Negative Affect Scale) Zanon, C. & cols Presentation of the expected outcome increased self‐pity at the end of the intervention and maintenance of the index with a variation of 5% after 3 months; Validated self‐pity scale Souza LK, Hutz CS Reduction of stress below the national average that is 17 points at the end of the intervention and maintenance after 3 months of the end; SECONDARY OUTCOME: Understanding the influence of meditation on compassion in the cultivation of self‐pity, as measured by focus groups at the end of the program and three months later. INCLUSION CRITERIA: Healthy volunteers; both sexes; aged between 18 and 75 years; the region for at least a year; participating in some action linked to the Center of Excellence in Early Childhood for at least 3 months