• Mindful Self-Compassion 5 day Retreat Nanaimo

    The Haven 240 DAVIS RD, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada

    MSC 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, BC

    Teachers 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, Canada

    Research 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).

    $185.00
  • Mindful Self-Compassion Core Skills for Professionals

    The Grand Hotel 4898 Rutherford Road, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

    This 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.

    $185.00
  • Embodied Mindfulness: weekly yoga and meditation classes

    Coast Bastion Hotel Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

    Combine 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