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Gift Vouchers Available for the 8-Week Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Course
8-Week Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Course
Location: Ashe House
Price: €350.00 (Deposit: €150.00)
Start Date: Monday 19th January, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
End Date: Monday 9th March
Retreat Day: Saturday 28th Feb
Cost: €350
Pre-Orientation Course Conversation
Once your deposit has been received and prior to attending your chosen course, Anne will arrange a phone call or zoom call at your convenience for a Pre-Course Orientation.
This is to ensure that the course you have chosen is suitable for this time in your life, and that there is time on the call together to answer all your questions about the course such as time commitment, logistics, payments etc.
Is This Course For Me?
No previous meditation or compassion experience needed to join this course-All are Welcome!
- Cultivate Compassion,
- Find Your Inner Strength and Resilience,
- Soften the inner critic
- Start Your Personal Path to Self-Kindness Here!
Is Life Stressful and Overwhelming for You?
Do you experience stress as anxiety, worry, fatigue, low mood?
Do you experience burnout and fatigue but keep pushing through?
Do you continuously criticise yourself or beat yourself up especially when things go wrong?
Do you feel isolated and alone?
Do you want to learn how to build personal inner strength, learn how to treat yourself with kindness, and cultivate greater personal resilience through self-compassion?
Then Yes! This is the right course for you-this foundational MSC course cultivates the basic building blocks for all self-compassion practices and skills you need.
About The Course
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an 8-week training program designed to cultivate the skill of self-compassion. Based on the groundbreaking research of Kristin Neff (www.self-compassion.org) and the clinical expertise of Christopher Germer (www.mindfulselfcompassion.org) MSC teaches core principles and practices that enables us to respond to difficult moments in our lives with kindness, care and understanding.
- Kindness opens our hearts to suffering, so we can give ourselves what we need.
- Common humanity opens us to our essential interrelatedness, so that we know we aren’t alone.
- Mindfulness opens us to the present moment, so we can accept our experience with greater ease.
What to Expect
- Each weekly session includes meditation, short talks, experiential exercises, group discussion, some movement, and home practices. The goal is for participants to directly experience self-compassion and learn practices that evoke self-compassion in daily life.
- MSC includes 8 weekly sessions of 3 hours each.
- A Retreat Day usually after week 5/6 on Saturday or Sunday.
- Prior to registering, participants should plan to attend every session and practice mindfulness and self-compassion at least 30 minutes per day throughout the program.
- MSC is primarily a compassion training program rather than mindfulness training like Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), although mindfulness is the foundation of self-compassion.
- MSC is also not psychotherapy insofar as the emphasis of MSC is on building emotional resources rather than addressing old wounds. Positive change occurs naturally as we develop the capacity to be with ourselves in a kinder, more compassionate way.
- It is said that “love reveals everything unlike itself.” While some difficult emotions may arise when practicing self-compassion, MSC teachers are committed to providing a safe, supportive environment for this process to unfold, and to making the journey interesting and enjoyable for everyone.
What is possible to practice and learn over the 8 week Mindful Self-Compassion Course? In MSC you learn to:
- Practice mindfulness and self-compassion in daily life
- Understand the science of self-compassion
- Handle difficult emotions with greater ease
- Motivate yourself with kindness rather than criticism
- Transform challenging relationships, old and new
- Manage caregiver fatigue
- Practice the art of savouring and self-appreciation
- Teach simple self-compassion skills to others
Anyone Feeling Stressed and Overwhelmed:
- Stresses of life that challenge everyone such as chronic pain, loss, illness, aging, challenges of work-life, relationships, or parenting?
- What would it be like to respond to the stress caused by these challenges with love and kindness?
- What would it be like to love others without losing yourself in the process?
- Do you ever feel exhausted by caring for others?
- What would it be like to meet your own emotional needs by giving yourself compassion, instead of becoming depleted and less able to give?
Care Givers:
Do you ever feel drained and overwhelmed when caring for others?
What would it be like to develop a sense of tenderness and care that embraces the suffering of others rather than emotionally reacting to it?
What would it be like to meet your own emotional needs by giving yourself compassion, instead of becoming depleted and less able to give?
Learn to use the core practices of compassion in the midst of caregiving so that it is possible to love others without losing ourselves
Mental Health Professionals:
Do you ever feel exhausted by your clinical work with clients?
What would it be like to give yourself compassion when experiencing empathic pain, as well as giving compassion to those you work with?
What would it be like to deepen the therapeutic relationship by developing self- compassion for yourself and which benefits the client?
Learn to empathetically resonate with people who are suffering( which can be draining and even overwhelming, leading to caregiver fatigue and burnout), without losing yourself
Mindfulness Teachers:
Do you ever feel stressed or overwhelmed when teaching others?
Learn to respond to the challenges of teaching with compassion rather than self-criticism
Learn to develop a sense of tenderness and care that holds the suffering of others rather than emotionally reacting to it?
Deepen a sense of presence and awareness, through self-compassion practices.
No previous experience with mindfulness or meditation is required to attend MSC. Participants are asked to provide background information and fill out an application form. The facilitator(s) will talk through the application form with each applicant and each other prior to being accepted onto the programme.
Recommended reading for participants: one or both of the following books before or during the program:
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Dr. Kristin Neff
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion by Dr. Christopher Germer
The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook by Dr. Kristin Neff and Dr. Christopher Germer
Cancellations for courses need to be done asap in writing via email (info@ashehouse.ie).
For all cancellations, a € 50 admin fee applies. Cancellations received up to 4 weeks before the start of the course are entitled to a full refund (minus admin costs).
Cancellations up to 2 weeks before the start, a refund of 50% of the deposit or fee.
For cancellations 2 weeks or closer before the start date or after the start – there is no refund available.
About the Certified MSC Teacher: Anne Kirwan
- Owner/Manager of Ashe House, Centre for MindBody Integration
- Certified Teacher, Mindful Self Compassion, UC San Diego CFM Mindfulness-Based Professional Institute and Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) Bangor University
- Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach
- Certified MBSR Teacher with the Institute for Mindfulness Approaches, Germany.
- Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist (CSP) with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, Boulder, Colorado
- Trained Teacher endorsed to teach Positive Neuroplasticity (PNT) developed by Dr Rick Hanson
Based on the groundbreaking research of Kristin Neff (www.self-compassion.org) and the clinical expertise of Christopher Germer (www.mindfulselfcompassion.org) Mindful Self-Compassion teaches core principles and practices that enables us to respond to difficult moments in our lives with kindness, care and understanding.
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