mindfulness
Mindful Self-Compassion 5 day Retreat Nanaimo
The Haven 240 DAVIS RD, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, CanadaMSC teaches principles and practices that enable you (and your clients) to respond to life’s difficult moments with kindness, care and understanding.
Rapidly expanding research demonstrates that self-compassion is strongly associated with emotional wellbeing, reduced anxiety, depression and stress, maintenance of healthy habits such as diet and exercise, and satisfying personal relationships.
Self-compassion can be learned by anyone. It’s a skill that provides emotional strength and resilience, allowing us to admit our shortcomings, motivate ourselves with kindness, forgive ourselves when needed, relate wholeheartedly to others, and be more authentically ourselves.
Through talks, exercises, meditation, discussion, poetry, and short films this program shows you how to:
Practice self-compassion in daily life
Understand the science of self-compassion
Motivate yourself with kindness rather than criticism
Handle difficult emotions with greater ease
Manage caregiver fatigue
Teach self-compassion exercises to clients
This program is open to helping professionals and anyone wishing to bring more self-compassion into their life.
Mindful Self-Compassion for Educators
ProD Day for SD#61 Victoria, BCTeachers and staff are increasingly being asked to do more with less and to deal with very complex social situations in their classroom and school environment. And we are seeing increasing stress, burnout and compassion fatigue. It can all seem like too much at times. Some wonder if it is even possible to take care of yourself AND be there for your students, your colleagues, your community and your family?
New research in neurophysiology shows that Mindful Self-Compassion practices can help prevent stress, fatigue, and burnout on the front line. This workshop will introduce the research and practice that have been show to make all the difference. You will take away practices you can start using immediately with yourself and your students.
Mindful Self-Compassion One Day Core Skills Workshop
Parkdale Community Centre 3512 - 5 Ave NW, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaResearch suggests that mindfulness interventions, particularly those with an added lovingkindness component, have the potential to increase self-compassion among health professionals. Mindful Self-Compassion is an evidence-based skills training program developed by Neff (Texas) and Germer (Harvard) and shown to have a strong association with positive emotions (overall wellbeing, better relationships, happiness) and with less negative emotions (anxiety, depression, anger).
Mindful Self-Compassion Core Skills for Professionals
The Grand Hotel 4898 Rutherford Road, Nanaimo, British Columbia, CanadaThis workshop is designed to support health professionals, mental health professionals and front-line workers. No meditation experience is required. Participants of this one-day workshop will learn some core skills from the 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) training, an empirically-supported program designed to cultivate self-compassion using meditation, daily life practices, lecture, group exercises and discussion. You will be provided with essential tools for treating yourself in a kind, compassionate way whenever you suffer, fail, or feel inadequate.
Embodied Mindfulness: weekly yoga and meditation classes
Coast Bastion Hotel Nanaimo, British Columbia, CanadaCombine the healing effects of mindfulness meditation, gentle, restorative yoga postures and therapeutic touch
Enjoy small personalized classes.
Relax mind and body
Restore health and well-being
Reconnect to yourself
