Registration will open in July 2024. Book before December 31st, 2024 and the get early bird discounted rate.
Registration will open in July 2024. Book before December 31st, 2024 and the get early bird discounted rate.
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an evidence-based training program designed to cultivate the skill of self-compassion. Based on the groundbreaking research of Dr. Kristin Neff (Ph.D.) and the clinical expertise of Christopher Germer (psychologist), MSC teaches core principles and practices that enables us to respond to difficult moments in their lives with kindness, care, and understanding.
Self-compassion 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 authentic ourselves.
After participating in this workshop, you’ll be able to:
What To Expect
Program activities include learning sessions, experiential exercises, guided meditations, group discussions, and personal reflection time. Participants are invited to directly experience self-compassion and learn practices that evoke self-compassion in daily life. MSC is primarily a compassion training program, although mindfulness is the foundation of self-compassion. MSC is also not psychotherapy insofar as the emphasis of MSC is on building emotional resources rather than addressing old wounds. Positive change occurs naturally as we develop the capacity to be with ourselves in a kinder, more compassionate way.
It is said that “love reveals everything unlike itself.” While some difficult emotions may arise when practicing self-compassion, we are committed to providing a safe, supportive environment for this process to unfold, and to making the journey interesting and enjoyable for everyone.
No previous experience with mindfulness or meditation is required to attend MSC. To insure safety, participants are asked to provide background information when they register for the program.
This program fulfills one of the prerequisites for becoming a MSC teacher. For more information on MSC and MSC Teacher Training, please visit www.CenterForMSC.org
Teachers
Victoria Pawlowski is a registered clinical counsellor and certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher who has been practising, studying and teaching MSC at Bethlehem since 2014. She is grateful for her co-teachers, mentors and all the participants who have shared this path of learning to turn towards our difficult experiences with the balm of self-compassion. Victoria is passionate about contributing to a more compassionate world through the development of personal skills and resources that can help us our include ourselves in our big arms of compassion for others. She weaves her MSC teaching with her interest and training in compassion focused therapy, family systems, integrated body psychotherapy and socially engaged Buddhism and is currently deepening her practice through the A Year To Live program at Spirit Rock Meditation Centre.
Kristy Williams is a teacher of mindful self-compassion family physician and parent who is continually humbled by the breadth of being human in these times. She is passionate about learning and sharing in community and finds MSC skills essential for her personal well being. She offers one on one care as a physician and as well as Mindful Self-Compassion training to the public (specifically to those training and working in health care.) She weaves her training in trauma-sensitive mindfulness, embodied practice, grief and socially engaged Buddhism into her personal and professional practice and is currently deepening her practice through the Contemplative Medicine program at New York Zen Centre for Contemplative Care.
Program starts Sunday March 23rd and ends at 1 pm Friday March 29th.
LOCATION: Bethlehem Centre
ADDRESS: 2371 Arbot Road, Nanaimo, BC, Canada