These courses assume that participants have some experience and training in mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness meditation is generally considered as a foundation for compassion exercises. It can provide mental and emotional steadiness, a greater capacity for insight, and an increased tolerance for difficult emotions.

Yes, each lesson can be taken separately. However, the interior workings of the mind are often interconnected in many ways. For instance, anxiety and depression are the most commonly co-diagnosed mental health conditions. Therefore, it would be helpful, if one is primarily interested anxiety, for example, to also take the class on depression. It can be very helpful to see a particular condition viewed from different angles.

No… but with these caveats. If you’ve experienced trauma, or severe symptoms in the past, this may not be the right environment for you at this time. The consideration is mental and emotional stability. Therefore, it is advisable to have some experience with mindfulness and compassion exercises: be true to yourself and go with your intuition.

These classes are designed for professionals as well as non-professionals. And yes, would probably be helpful for your therapist to have the same information you have in the sessions, but that would be up to your therapist.

Yes. Each participant will have access to each class they register for and can access it, along with the transcript, for as long as they want. Please be aware that all the information from the classes, the audio and the transcripts, is copyrighted material. If you would like to use this material in some way, feel free to contact me to make arrangements. However, we honor the Fair Use guidelines of the US Copyright office. You can find that information here… https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/

Please see our sheet on the class structure that was sent with registration. If you didn’t receive it, please let me know and I will send.