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Mindfulness is paying attention to our experience in the present moment without judgement. Combined with compassion, it becomes a potent pathway for healing, emotional growth, resilience, and authentic connection.Through guided practices, reflection, and discussion, we will inquire into how to:
• Respond rather than react.
• Articulate difficult feelings and emotions with greater clarity.
• Lessen high self-demands and unrelenting standards.
• Reduce anxiety, perfectionism, overwhelm, and self-criticism.
• Understand how the brain and nervous system can hijack thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
• Develop self-compassion and emotional resilience.
• Calm the anxious, critical, and judging mind.
• Improve relationships with yourself and others.
• Develop healthy "good enough" boundaries.
• Resource yourself and build resilience during challenging times.
• Create space for healing, growth, and transformation.
• Cultivate more skilful, loving, and authentic relationships.
Before you can love another, you must learn to turn inward and love yourself.Many of us carry different inner voices and parts that judge, criticise, blame, or hide in shame. When these parts remain unheard, we often live in internal conflict that affects our well-being and relationships.
This training helps you learn to manage, navigate and understand these different parts of yourself with compassion, kindness, insight and awareness.
So loving relationships are an inside job first! – manage and understand your different voices/parts. Before you can have better relationships and love another, you have to learn to turn inward and know and begin to care for yourself. The many different parts of yourself can come out of hiding and shame, and learn to be listened to, understood, and find a way into cooperation and collaboration.Healing can begin rather than living in internal conflict.
We can pause and step away to gain insight into our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours – this is what this training is for: emotional growth, intelligence, and the freedom to become "our authentic selves".
- How to calm the threat, fear and survival response.
- How to work with self-criticism, shame, blame, and anger.
- Greater emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
- Heart-centred communication and connection.
- Skills for navigating difficult emotions and having better relationships.
- Practical mindfulness and compassion practices.
- Health boundaries.
- Psychological safety.
- Good enough friendships and partnerships.
- How to cultivate healthier and more loving relationships.
- Basic neuroscience understanding of how stress and survival responses affect the brain and behaviour.
- Resourcefulness and resilience.
- Life-affirming wishes for well-being and nurture for self and others.
- Compassionate Body Mind Practice – audio and PDF guidance.
- Mood check-ins, insight and emotional awareness exercises.
- Self-inquiry and reflective journaling
- Mindful movements.
- Communication skills, tools, and practices to manage heightened feelings, anxiety, and stress responses.
Participants often experience :
- Greater self-awareness
- Reduced self-criticism
- Increased emotional regulation
- Improved communication
- Healthier boundaries
- Greater resilience and wellbeing
- Enhanced compassion for self and othersMore authentic and fulfilling relationships
Healing begins with the relationship you have with yourself. Mindful Compassion for Self & Other - offers practical tools, embodied practices, and compassionate inquiry to help you bridge your inner and outer worlds.By turning inward first, we cultivate the awareness, courage, and compassion needed to transform ourselves, our relationships, and our communities."The relationship you have with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship in your life."
