Self Compassion and Mindfulness in Today's World
a modular program for modern living
offered live online by Alfie Wishart
Every Sunday 10:00-11:30am USA Central Time
STARTS Sunday, April 16
Self compassion and mindfulness help us learn to be more caring toward ourselves, and stay grounded in the refuge of the present moment.
They help us bring loving kindness toward our inner being so we can bring that care and kindness to those around us. Through these practices, we can change our inner narrative and outlook on life from negative to positive. Both self-compassion and mindfulness help bring greater emotional balance, well-being and a sense of belonging.
The program
This is a modular series. It is based on and includes all the material of the 8-week Mindful Self Compassion (MSC) course with a greater emphasis on mindfulness.
Most importantly, there will be time in each session for participants to share their experiences with the exercises and to ask questions.
- There are over 20 weekly modules.
- Each module is 90 minutes in length.
- Audio recordings of the exercises for each session will be available to registrants.
- Register for the whole series, segments of the series, or one module at a time.
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What to expect in each session
Module 1. How does one learn compassion, and what is Self-Compassion?
In this module, we’ll discuss the series structure, what to expect and what your intention is. We’ll explore what mindfulness and compassion is and how they relate, and some thoughts on how to apply them to our daily lives. We will ask the questions: If we take away mindfulness - what do we have? If we take away compassion - what do we have?
Module 2. The Breath and Mindfulness
In this session we’ll focus on Mindfulness and the breath, the deeper implications, more of its benefits, what equanimity is and why it’s important. We’ll look at how mindfulness relates to compassion and how they work together. Safety and working with trauma will also be discussed.
Module 3. The Breath and Self Compassion
Here we’ll discuss the differences between a mindfulness body scan and a compassionate body scan.We’ll take a look at how each is useful in its own way, and how this can help us in our day-to-day activities.
Module 4. Body Scan with Mindfulness
The Body Scan exercises is well known, both as a mindfulness and a self compassion exercise. This time, we’ll be going further into equanimity, what the implications are for it as a life strategy, and what is its utility in our relationship with the body. It helps us build a more accepting relationship with our body.
Module 5. Body Scan: With Self Compassion
The Body Scan with Self Compassion is similar in form, but different in quality. We extend our awareness to the whole body, a little bit at at time, but we do it with gratitude, wonder, awe, appreciation, and caring. This is how we move from the wisdom of equanimity to engaging with compassion.
Module 6. Sympathy, Empathy, Loving Kindness and Compassion
Empathy is often used synonymously with compassion, but the two are very different. This module addresses the important differences between sympathy, empathy, loving kindness and compassion and what that means in terms of relationships.
About the teacher
Alfie Wishart
Alfie is a therapist in Dallas, Texas, a licensed LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor), LCDC (Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor) and a CRC (Certified Rehabilitation Counselor). He is a Certified Teacher in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and a Trained Teacher in Mindful Self-compassion through the UC San Diego medical school, a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, and a long-time meditator. He is a founding teacher and board member of Dallas Center for Mindfulness and Compassion. Alfie believes that as the world in which we live becomes ever more stressful, our ability to maintain a healthy equilibrium becomes all the more urgent.
Registration
This online modular program is offered on a donation basis.
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