NOTE: Please direct any enquiries regarding this event to the workshop organiser, Marie Bloomfield at marie@bloomfieldpsychology.com.au
Presenters: Marie Bloomfield and assistant teacher Marianna Lolas, Clinical Psychologists
Date: 25 and 26 November 2023 (Saturday and Sunday)
Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
Location: Treacy Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville VIC 3052
Price: Early bird (25 Sept.) $690.00, Regular $590.00
Further information is available here. Click here to register.
Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Professionals is an outstanding didactic and experiential workshop presenting powerful practices from the empirically validated Mindful Self-Compassion program (designed by Kristin Neff and Chris Germer) that you can use in your own life and also teach your clients.
An ever-growing body of research is showing that mindfulness and self-compassion benefit mental and physical health by reducing depression, anxiety, trauma and burnout while promoting wellbeing, resilience and better relationships.
In Mindfulness and Self-Compassion 2-day workshop you will learn simple tools that can be used in daily life, to mindfully attend to struggles and to respond with understanding and kindness to encourage and empower. Mistakes, shortcomings, failures can be met with more calm and acceptance so there is a greater possibility to problem solve, learn from experiences, gain strength, heal and thrive. Mindfulness and Self-Compassion greatly increase the ability to regulate emotions, to ease toxic inner criticisms, while promoting confidence, and inner strength.
Training objectives
After participating in this training workshop, you’ll be more able to:
Practice mindfulness and self-compassion in daily life
Cultivate feelings of goodwill, kindness and warmth towards self and others
Motivate yourself and others with encouragement rather than harsh self-criticism
Deal with struggles with courage, acceptance and resilience
Regulate difficult emotions with more ease
Become aware and able to attend skilfully to your needs and the needs of others
Teach simple mindfulness and self-compassion practices to patients, clients, students and children
The Mindfulness and Self-Compassion training workshop consists of:
Guided meditations, visualizations, talks, experiential exercises, self-reflective writing, group discussions, strategies, tools and suggested home practices.
Meditations and informal practices with mp3downloads
You will be given the option to purchase the Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook written by Kristin Neff and Chris Germer ($40.00)
Program content
Day 1:
Session 1: Self-Compassion in daily life
Session 2: Mindfulness in daily life
Day 2:
Session 3: Benefits and applications of Loving-Kindness
Session 4: Making peace with the Inner Critic and positively motivating ourselves
What to Expect
The short course presents simple and quick tools to increase the ability to attend to the self, compassionately, whenever there is struggle or pain, to ease stress, to gain balance and resilience. The workshop consists of topics and practices, meditations from Mindful Self-Compassion to soothe, to calm as well as strategies to promote emotional strength, flexibility and positive motivation that you can practice in daily life and teach your clients, patients or students. The workshop consists of short talks, meditation, visualisation, experiential exercises, self-reflection writing and group discussions.
The goal is for participants to directly experience and learn practices that evoke mindfulness and self-compassion that can be integrated into daily life. The emphasis is on learning mindfulness and self-compassion to build emotional resources that can be used simply and quickly anywhere anytime.
This program, integrates other concepts and practices from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Dialectic Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance Commitment Therapy(ACT), Compassionate mind training + Compassion-Focused Therapy(CFT) and Cognitive Therapy(CBT), as well as Positive Psychology adding the element of self-compassion based on the latest neuroscience research findings.
Note: This two-day workshop is an introduction to Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC- designed by Kristin Neff and Chris Germer) an empirically-supported program since 2013. The content of the program consists of the first two days or initial 4 sessions of the complete Mindful Self-Compassion program often presented over 5 days or 8 weeks.
Who is it for
This workshop is for professionals who value and wish to integrate mindfulness and self-compassion into their life and work to enhance their clinical skills while preventing burnout.
This Mindfulness and Self-Compassion workshop has been very popular among professionals such as psychologists, social workers, counsellors, medical practitioners, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, teachers, trainers, coaches, nurses, lawyers, managers, accountants and so on, who wish to integrate mindfulness and self-compassion in their personal life and in their work practices.
Beginners are welcome as well as others who may have a more regular practice in mindfulness or meditation. If you have attended other mindfulness-based programs such as MBSR or MBCT this course will help you to extend and deepen your practice in self-compassion.
The workshop is promoted on the Australian Psychologist Society(APS) calendar of events.
Participant Guidelines
The Mindfulness and Self-Compassion training workshop is an adventure in self-discovery and personal growth. During the program, we can open up to our struggles in a way that is soothing and comforting to uncover our inner strengths. The group comes together to provide a safe, supportive, confidential environment to develop compassion for ourselves and others.
Difficult emotions may arise as we give ourselves the kindness that we need. Participants are asked to attend to their safety and wellbeing. We will support participants as we proceed together through the course. We are committed to making the journey safe, interesting and enjoyable for everyone.
What Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Professionals are not:
This program is not group therapy and does not replace individual psychotherapy. Mindfulness and Self-Compassion is an educational group program to build emotional resources and is not a substitute for individual medical or psychological treatments.
Participants are encouraged to share their experiences on the path of mindful self-compassion which can be very healing. The emphasis of the training program is on skill-building to enhance emotional resources and personal capacities to learn for ourselves and to teach others.
This workshop is an introduction to the mindful self-compassion 8-week or 5-day program. It is not the entire course and therefore it does not fulfil the pre-requisite for attending teacher training or participating in other CMSC programs for MSC graduates.
Continued Professional Development-CPD
A Certificate of attendance of 14 hours will be given to professionals requiring evidence of professional development training such as psychologists, social workers, teachers, doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, etc.