Intro to Mindful Self-Compassion:
4-week series
Wednesdays in January, 2023
(5:00 - 6:30 pm PT)
Offered in community via Zoom.
This is a series, no drop-ins.
Dates: January 4, 11, 18, & 25
We live in a culture where many of us have been taught to put others’ well-being before our own. Most of us did not learn to be kind and gentle with ourselves and to offer the same support and love to ourselves as we would to a friend. The stories we tell ourselves about the ways we fall short, are inadequate, or are not enough are destructive to our individual and collective well-being. In offering kindness and compassion to ourselves, we find freedom to be our authentic selves or to love and care for others to the extent that we are capable.
This series will explore compassion and self-compassion practices through the lens of mindfulness. We will widen our window of tolerance for stress and difficult emotions by connecting to inner resources and developing self-compassion, while exploring compassion as the antidote to the challenging times we are living through. This series will weave together modern scientific insights with traditional practices and give you tangible tools for not only self-care but to expand your capacity for living a more authentic and loving life.
This series will include:
Specific and practical mindful self-compassion techniques that we will practice together and between sessions
Cultivating beloved community through deep conversation, mindful listening, intentional activities, and group reflection
The theory, research, and neuroscience of self-compassion
Discussions about how self-judgment impacts our nervous systems and how mindful self-compassion can help us to increase our capacity for tolerating difficult emotions
The connections between mindful self-compassion and caring for others [compassion fatigue] – how self compassion builds capacity for engaging with the world, etc.
By the end of the series, you will have specific tools and practices to bring self-compassion into your day to day life. Through active practices of self-compassion, you will take important steps toward a more loving relationship with yourself while building your personal capacity to be with the inherent challenges and suffering of being human.
No experience necessary;
just an open heart and willingness to connect.
Join us as we disrupt the cultural paradigm by contemplating the truth that we are already enough.
“Being human is not about being any one particular way; it is about being as life creates you—with your own particular strengths and weaknesses, gifts and challenges, quirks and oddities.”
— Kristin Neff