Self-Kindness, Mindfulness, and Common Humanity: Effects of Self-Compassion on Well-Being for Indigenous Participants in Self-Compassion–Related Interventions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Objectives: Self-compassion is associated empirically with well-being among Western populations and conceptually with traditional Indigenous wellness concepts of self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity, suggesting self-compassion may be useful when designing mental wellness interventions with Indigenous communities. This systematic review sought to explore how self-compassion relates to well-being within Indigenous communities and the possible mechanisms at work. Methods: We completed a thematic analysis of qualitative research with Indigenous youth and adults participating in interventions that promote aspects of self-compassion and outcomes related to well-being. Results: A link between self-compassion and well-being was revealed through three themes: connection (new relationships, stronger relationships, and spirituality), enhanced awareness (of mind, body, and environment), and self-empowerment. We discuss parallels among these themes and traditional Indigenous concepts of wellness, including the Mitakuye Oyasin prayer of the Lakota, The Seven Grandfather Teachings of the Anishinaabe, and Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit. Conclusions: A focus on self-compassion may be useful in promoting well-being among Indigenous individuals and communities. Larger culture-specific and systematic studies on self-compassion, especially with Indigenous youth, are needed. We suggest that a Mi’kmaq Two-Eyed Seeing approach may capture the synergy between Western and Indigenous conceptions of self-compassion as Indigenous communities grapple with urgent mental health and suicide crises.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".