Mindful Self Compassion (MSC) - 8 weeks
Live-online | with Maggie O'Shea | Mondays 6:30 am - 9 pm (AEDT) | Starts 21st October
Mindful Self Compassion (MSC) is an 8-week training program where you will learn core principles and practices for responding to external and internal stress and difficulty with more awareness, kindness and wisdom, in ways that benefit ourselves and all those around us. Research shows that MSC can support your:
- Mental health (increased emotional wellbeing, less anxiety, depression, stress, self-criticism and rumination)
- Physical health (maintenance of healthy habits such as diet and exercise)
- Relationships (improved self-awareness, communication, increased empathy and compassion, less judgement)
While compassion is a central part of mindfulness practice, many of us bypass it because we don’t know how to actually practice it! We are kind to others but we struggle to extend this to our own selves, and instead accidentally ‘practice’ self-talk and thinking patterns that can feel harsh, critical, shaming or ruminative.
The course is a great follow up for people who have completed the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program, or have some other mindfulness practice experience, but is also suitable for beginners.
Pricing and Scholarship places
- Standard Rate $695
- And we are delighted to offer discounted places for those who need financial support to come along.
If you have access to some financial security: that is, have a job, have some assets (savings, shares, property) and/or superannuation income we ask you to pay your way (with a payment plan if needed).
Maggie is a mental health social worker, couple therapist, and mother, and brings to teaching mindfulness a deep sensitivity and warmth. After twenty years of social work in health settings, she moved into private practice, specialising in loss, grief and trauma, before more recently focusing on couples. Health issues nudged her into yoga and her first 10-day meditation retreat in 1994, however combining daily meditation with motherhood proved elusive until discovering MBSR & what she experiences as the more practical and integrated, mind-body approach of Jon Kabat Zinn.