Mindful Self-Compassion for Anxiety: 6 Week Live Online Training (MSP Covered) Fall 2025

Description

Self-Compassion for Anxiety is designed for people with mild to moderate anxiety. It is not therapy, however the program can be very therapeutic. It can provide you with a toolkit of skills and resources to help you cultivate a different relationship with your anxiety and your mental health.

Research shows that Mindful Self-Compassion can help improve our emotional well-being, improve our ability to cope with life’s challenges, lower levels of anxiety and depression, promote healthy habits such as diet and exercise, and lead to more satisfying personal relationships.

Self-compassion can fundamentally shift how we relate to ourselves and to our anxiety.

Instead of meeting challenges with self-blame and criticism, we can learn bring to care for ourselves much as we would care for someone we loved. We can learn to bring a kind and mindful attention to our experiences (thoughts, emotions, and sensations) and a sense of love and care to ourselves, right in the midst of difficult situations.

What to expect

Live Online Classes
The classes will be offered live online and will not be recorded. We will send a link to the zoom sessions to registered participants. We send a summary email with links to the new practices after each class.

ZOOM
We will be using the confidential platform ZOOM. We are committed to co-creating a safe, confidential and compassionate space for our sessions .Participants have found they do not feel as comfortable in the program when some people have their video camera off.
Therefore we ask all participants to commit to keeping their video monitor ON for the sessions.We will meet online for six consecutive weeks from 7 – 8:30 pm.

Prerequisites:

Please check your calendar carefully before registering and consider whether you can make a commitment to attend
– the first class, and
– 4 out of 5 remaining sessions.

Each session will offer a grounding meditation, a check-in on how the practices are going followed by introduction of the topic for the night. Each class we will present some new perspectives and introduce a new practice to try. You will have the opportunity to be guided through the practice, and then self-reflect individually, as well as in small groups if comfortable (optional).

If you cannot commit to participating in this way at this time, we encourage you to consider registering for a later course where you will have the time to commit to all sessions.

Attendance at first session is required in order to attend remaining sessions. Participants who miss the first class will not be able to attend the remaining sessions and admin fee will not be refunded.

Confidentiality

In order to create a safe, brave and compassionate space to grow, we ask that you commit to protecting the confidentiality of members in our group. In addition, classes will not be recorded.

Fee

The program is covered under BC Medical Services plan and is offered free to adult BC residents who provide us with their full name (as listed on MSP care), MSP number and birthdate. A small non-refundable admin fee of $55 is charged.