Self-Compassion: A six-week online course

  • Self-Compassion: A six-week online course!  Tuesday evenings, February 16th – March 23rd on Zoom.com 6:30pm – 8:00pm PST .  Course fee: $330 Registration will be open before or by November 23rd!                                                                                                                                                                        How might your life change if you offered yourself the tenderness, understanding, and compassion you so readily offer others? This course offers guidance in cultivating self-compassion and self-kindness. Through mindfulness, guided self-compassion and loving-kindness meditations, reflection, and discussion, we will gently explore our feelings, needs, self-criticism, and pain—learning to meet ourselves with greater warmth and understanding.  Together, we will explore the differences between self-esteem, self-compassion, loving-kindness, and mindfulness, and how these can support us in everyday life. We will practice recognizing our inner critic, responding compassionately to difficult emotions, and remembering that struggle and imperfection are part of our shared humanity.  Self-compassion also includes honoring our needs, setting boundaries, and discerning when caring for ourselves calls for action. It can help us take responsibility for our lives, to develop a more compassionate relationship with ourselves—one that supports well-being, resilience, and a greater capacity to be present with life as it unfolds.