4-7 pm Pacific Time
Presented by Kristin Neff and Chris Germer
This Event Is a Benefit for CMSC
In my home country of Israel, as we watched the COVID virus touch so many families and friends, a group of women friends and I created a new compassion program to help our community cultivate inner peace. We called it "Planting Seeds of Compassion" and offered it as a bilingual program taught in Hebrew and Arabic for Jews and Arabs in Israel.
When your body does not behave, look, or feel the way you want it to, you may feel that wish to pull away, blame, and shame it. It is exactly in these challenging moments that self-compassion is there to remind you that your precious body never meant to cause you any harm or distress. Rather, it is, and always has been, just trying to guide you along this journey of life.
Sometimes, there are atrocities that are so horrific that we can’t help but be moved to compassionate action. Such was the case in 2018 when over 300 women and children were caught in the political crossfire between warring factions in the secluded mountainous region of Chepkurkur on Mount Elgon in Kenya. With the encouragement of Lilian Muthui, a Kenya-based psychologist and counselor, a team of us set out to provide carefully adapted Mindful Self-Compassion training for the women, teens, and children of the war-torn community. Here is my story.
David Spound, Beth Mulligan
June 8 - June 13, 2021
Chris Germer, Kristin Neff
July 21 - July 30, 2021
The Center for Mindful Self-Compassion has trained over 2200 people to teach MSC around the globe and among them are a number of people who have taken the time to distill their wisdom, experience and training related to self-compassion into extremely valuable and insightful books. Take a moment to browse this amazing and practical collection of books and see how the resources of self-compassion can help us navigate everything from parenting to adolescence to our inner emotional and creative world.
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