Mindful Self-Compassion Core Skills: Preventing Stress & Burnout: Toronto
By Centre for Compassion Inspired Health
Date and time
Monday, February 15, 2016 · 6:30 - 7:30am EST
Location
Toronto, Ontario Canada
Refund Policy
Contact the organizer to request a refund.
Description
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) training developed by Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff. It is open to everyone, including professionals who wish to teach self-compassion to others. Participants will learn to:
- motivate yourself with kindness rather than criticism,
- understand the science of self-compassion,
- handle difficult emotions, transform challenging relationships,
- learn tools to manage caregiver fatigue
- teach self-compassion practices to others.
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is designed to cultivate the skill of self-compassion. MSC teaches core principles and practices that enable participants to respond to difficult emotions with kindness and understanding. The three key components of self-compassion are self-kindness, a sense of common humanity, and balanced, mindful awareness. Kindness opens our hearts to suffering, so we can give ourselves what we need. Common humanity opens us to others, so that we know we aren’t alone. Mindfulness opens us to the present moment, so we can accept our experience with greater ease. Together they comprise a state of warm, connected, presence during difficult moments in our lives.
Self-compassion can be learned by anyone, even those who didn’t receive enough affection in childhood or who feel uncomfortable when they are good to themselves. It’s a courageous attitude that stands up to harm, including the harm that we inflict on ourselves through self-criticism, self-denial, or self-absorption. Self-compassion provides emotional strength and resilience, allowing us to admit our shortcomings, forgive ourselves, motivate ourselves with kindness, care for others, and be fully human.
Rapidly expanding research clearly demonstrates that self-compassion is related to emotional wellbeing, lower anxiety and depression, maintenance of healthy habits such as diet and exercise, and more satisfying personal relationships
No meditation experience required.
Just bring yourself. Don't worry, this isn't therapy. Although it can be therapeutic. But MSC is a skill building course - building the skill of meeting our suffering/stress with strength and kindness.
Victoria Pawlowski, M.Ed., R.C.C., R.D.
Trained Teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion
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Victoria Pawlowski R.C.C., M.Ed.PsychotherapistTrained Teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion