This course will aim to teach participants to:
• Practice self-compassion, mindfulness and loving kindness in daily life
• Understand, experientially, the empirically-supported benefits of self-compassion
• Motivate oneself with kindness rather than criticism
• Handle difficult emotions with ease
• Transform destructive emotional patterns and challenging relationships
• Approach difficult relationships with equanimity
• Practice the art of self-appreciation
This MSC intensive will involve eight 2.5 to 3 hour training sessions and one 3-4 hour silent retreat focused completely on individual practice. The morning sessions are scheduled from 9.30am till 12.30pm and the afternoon sessions, for the most part, will be 2pm till 5pm. There may be exceptions on Sunday afternoon (22/4/18) when we may finish a little later due to having a retreat and on Monday afternoon (23/4/18) when the afternoon will be scheduled as free time. Though participation in the whole intensive is recommended, it will be possible to attend just Friday 20/4/18 till Sunday the 22/4/18 (3 days) with an option to complete the course at a later date. In addition, even though it is not normally part of MSC, on this intensive Lisa will be offering an optional yoga session from 8.00am till 9.00am every morning over the five days of this MSC intensive.
Trainers
Malcolm Huxter is a certified MSC teacher and a clinical psychologist who has many years of experience teaching mindfulness and the meditational development of compassion and loving-kindness. A practicing psychologist for over 27 years he has been teaching professionals since 2001. Malcolm trained in MSC with Neff and Germer in the UK in 2014 and has facilitated MSC courses in London, Brisbane, Lismore, Gold Coast and Byron Bay. For more info about Malcolm go to: www.malhuxter.com
Lisa Brown is a trained MSC teacher, Psychologist, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) facilitator and yoga teacher. She currently works in private practice in Bellingen and Coffs Harbour and facilitates Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction groups and Trauma Sensitive Yoga classes. She completed MSC teacher training in April 2017 in Australia. For more info about Lisa go to: http://mindfulnesspsychologywellbeing.com
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