Claudio Araya

My Name is Claudio Araya. I ‘am clinical psychologist and PhD in Psychotherapy Research from Pontificia Universidad Catholica of Chile. I am Assistant teacher and researcher at the Adolfo Ibáñez University. I am working towards developing an enacted and relational perspective of mindfulness and compassion, together with the application of mindfulness and self-compassion in different context, especially in psychosocial vulnerability context. I am author of two the book: The greatest advance is to stop, mindfulness in the everyday (2010), and Common Humanity (2019).

I have practiced meditation since 2002 and have sought to incorporate the practice of mindfulness and compassion in the clinical and professional field since 2008. Between 2012 and 2016 I did my doctoral studies and my thesis work dealt with the effects of mindfulness and self-compassion in women in Chile living in a context of psychosocial vulnerability. I am currently studying the effects of a brief practice of common humanity on the degrees of affective closeness that they generate towards others, and the perception of compassion and self-compassion that this same practice generates. I am trying to delve into the implications of common humanity practices, integrating a phenomenological perspective and considers the context of psychosocial vulnerability.