The Center for Mindful Self-Compassion (CMSC) offers MSC in a live session online format. LOMSC (Live-Online MSC) is the most comprehensive MSC training you can take at this time and is only offered through CMSC. This program has the same content as an MSC program offered in person and is taught soley by Certified MSC teachers over 10 weeks. LOMSC offers a virtual classroom with additional learning materials as well as a community discussion board for enhanced engagement.
LOMSC is also appropriate for those people who do not have access to MSC in their area, who have commitments or mobility issues that make it difficult to leave home to do a course, or who have already done MSC and would like a refresher.
LOMSC schedule of classes
- Thursdays, starts October 1, 9:00 – 11:00 pm UTC (5:00 pm EST) – Convert time zone here – Register!
- Wednesdays, starts October 7, 3:00 pm UTC (11:00 am EST) – Convert time zone here – Register! (Spanish!)
- Sundays, starts October 25, 3:00 pm UTC (11:00 am EST) – Convert time zone here – Register
- Saturdays, starts October 31, 11:30 am UTC (7:30 am EST) – Convert time zone here – Register
Class Fees
Special Compassionate Discount
Due to these challenging times we are offering a special compassionate discount of $200 off of LOMSC. The cost of the LOMSC program is US $575 per person but this special discount will allow you to register for $375 . For those who can afford to, please consider paying at the full rate of $575, or the Intro session discount of $475 to help support scholarships for those in need. We hope to be of support to you learning the powerful practices of MSC in a compassionate community. DISCOUNT CODE: COMPASSIONMSC – please use “General Registration” and then add this code to pay $375
Note: If you want to get CEs please use the following code COMPASSIONMSC+CES
You may wish to sign up for a Free 1-hour information session here. To help you get there, you can receive $100 off the full registration fee of $575 for coming to the Introductory Session (when not using the Early Bird discount or the Compassionate Discount). To register for the class just choose the “General Registration + Intro Session” option. Please note you can register for the class before attending the intro session.
We offer a different rate for participants living in certain countries taking into account Local Purchasing Power. Participants in the following countries can register for US $350:
• Central & South America & The Caribbean (excluding Chile)
• South East Asia (excluding Singapore and Malaysia)
• Eastern Europe • Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal
• Africa (excluding South Africa)
Scholarships
A limited number of scholarships are available. You can apply for a scholarship using this form LOMSC Scholarship Application. Places will be offered in the order application forms are received, we receive hundreds of applications so we are not able to help everyone. We appreciate your patience and understanding in advance. Places are confirmed once payment is received. (Please note that scholarships are based on personal financial need, separate from being financially over-extended or over-committed.)
Class Size
Classes are small to allow plenty of time with the teacher, and so that everyone in the group has an opportunity to feel seen and heard throughout the course. There are usually around 15-25 participants at a live session.
LOMSC as Pre-requisite for MSC TT
Please note: LOMSC usually does not satisfy the training prerequisite for MSC Teacher Training but during Covid, we will accept LOMSC as the pre-requisite for any future MSC Teacher Trainings as long as students attend all classes live. There is no need to complete any exemption form at the moment you can go ahead and register directly.
Content and Format
LOMSC offers around 95% of the material from the MSC program developed by Kristin Neff, PhD and Christopher Germer, PhD. The course is run weekly for 10 consecutive weeks (there may be a break for a week to accommodate holidays and teacher availability).
MSC is an opportunity to explore how we typically respond when difficulties arise in our lives and to learn tools for becoming a warm and supportive companion to ourselves. Although MSC offers conceptual learning it is designed to be more experiential than theoretical.
MSC is therapeutic, but it’s not therapy. The emphasis of the program is on enhancing emotional resources to meet emotional challenges, old and new. MSC is also not primarily a type of mindfulness training; MSC is mindfulness-based compassion training in which the quality of warmth is emphasized more than awareness itself.
LOMSC offers:
- Pre-course reading/viewing material,
- Live sessions once weekly,
- Post-course reading/viewing material,
- 24/7 online discussion board,
- Optional small group meetings between classes,
- Home practice suggestions,
- Email contact with the teacher (online one-to-one chats if necessary),
- The opportunity to join online graduate groups to support ongoing practice.
LOMSC Objecitves:
At the completion of this activity, participants will begin to:
- Describe the theory and research supporting mindful self-compassion
- Develop and apply self-compassion practices to motivate themselves with encouragement rather than self-criticism
- Assess and manage difficult situations and emotions with greater moment-to-moment acceptance
- Develop and apply self-compassion practices to respond to feelings of failure or inadequacy with self-kindness
- Transform difficult relationships, old and new, through self-validation
- Utilize the art of savoring and self-appreciation to overcome negative attention bias
- Apply core mindfulness and self-compassion practices into daily life
- Demonstrate simple self-compassion practices to patients, students, or clients
Participants will be invited to view reading material and informational videos before each class so that our precious class time can be saved for meditations, exercises and group sharing. Classes are 2 hours long, however one session will be a 3-hour online retreat.
Please Note: LOMSC is offered for those over the age of 20. We strongly recommend that individuals younger than 20 seek out the teen version of MSC called “Making Friends With Yourself” in their area. For more information, consult the program’s page on this website.
Platforms
LOMSC’s home is an online Learning Management System called PowerSchool Learning, and we use a web conferencing platform called Zoom. After you register, we will support you in gaining access to both these tools.
Continuing Education
Psychologists: Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course offers 23.0 CE credit.
California licensed MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, LCSWs: Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. 23.0 CE credit may be applied to your license renewal through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. For those licensed outside California, please check with your local licensing board to determine if CE credit is accepted.
Nurses: UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16351, for 27.5 CE credit.
Fees for CE credit: $75 (Submit when registering). *Must attend all classes live to receive credits. Only valid in United States.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for LOMSC, however, we will ask you to complete an application form so that we can start to get to know you.
Cancellation Policy
Course registration fees will be refunded or transferred to future LOMSC dates if a cancellation occurs up to 2 weeks before a course begins. A 50% refund or the option to transfer to a future LOMSC will be offered if cancelling up to a week before a course begins. No refunds can be offered if cancelling later than a week before a course begins (except on compassionate grounds for extenuating circumstances). To process any refund there will be a fee charged by the system: $45 for general admission and developing countries and $25 for scholarships refunds. The refund will only be for tuition fees, and any miscellaneous expenses incurred related to this course will not be refunded.
If you have any questions about the program, please contact Maria at Maria@centerformsc.org.
We hope to see you online soon, and we also hope that whatever your practice is, it leads to more mindfulness and more self-compassion in your day!
Teachers
Natalie founded Mindful Wellness to bring mindfulness training and coaching to individuals and corporations with a focus on self-compassion for greater ease and well being. She works with physicians, health care teams, corporate groups and teachers, bringing awareness practices for self-regulation, greater balance, and self-acceptance. Natalie offers in person and online programs, keynotes, workshops, retreats, and hourly consultation.
Natalie is a certified mindfulness instructor for the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) teaching their signature Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) classes. She teaches MSC at the Center for Mindful Living in Los Angeles and online LOMSC. Natalie works with Kristin Neff and Chris Germer on the Healthcare Advisory Committee and as Director of the SCHC program in healthcare, and is a mentor in their Sounds True Power of Self Compassion program. She is the Director and developer of Corporate Programs at Unplug Meditation studio in L.A and speaks nationally on the power of mindfulness and compassion. Natalie believes deeply that through cultivating compassionate awareness we have the capacity to renew our mind, body and spirit. For more information please visit her website, www.nataliebell.com.
Born in Japan, she moved to the States in 1985. Noriko feels that her life transforming journey of discovering and exploring mindfulness and self-compassion practices has allowed a more balanced life and identity between these two cultures. Noriko strongly believes practicing mindfulness and self-compassion, and bringing its principles into her life has and continues to help her grow as a person. She feels passionate about bringing these practices to other people’s lives. It is her mission to share what she has learned, what she continues to learn, to our community.
In addition, Noriko sees an opportunity, based on her own integration experiences, to introduce mindfulness-based programs to the Japanese communities in the world and to the Japanese people in Japan.
Sydney offers classes, trainings, workshops and programs in diversity, equity, and inclusion, somatically-centered trauma treatment, trauma-sensitive mindfulness, meditation, Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), i-rest Yoga Nidra, and trauma-sensitive yoga. These offerings are provided through Midwest Alliance in Mindfulness, www.mindfulness-alliance.org, which focuses on providing mindfulness-based practices and community outreach efforts for organizations and at-risk populations. Additionally, she works as a trauma-sensitive yoga (TCTSY) facilitator, consultant and certification supervisor for the Center for Trauma and Embodiment in Boston, Massachusetts Center. Sydney has been providing this type of adaptive yoga at the Kansas City, Missouri VA for veterans who have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress, those with spinal cord injuries and for individual community survivors. Sydney has a passion for providing trauma sensitive mindfulness practices for other at-risk groups such as men who are incarcerated to support their preparation and transition for re-entry into the community. In addition she has been providing diversity-based affinity groups for people of color (BIPOC+), people with ability challenges, and Black women. She is committed to advancing social justice efforts and providing a non-oppressive, trauma-sensitive and culturally-responsive private practice for psychotherapy clients.
He is Professor of Philosophy at Oberlin College, and has also taught philosophy at Princeton University and U.C. Berkeley. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University, and a B.A. (Joint Hons.) in physics and philosophy from Oxford University. His research is primarily in the philosophy of science.
After completing her M.A., she became a ICF certified coach, and had a position of Leading Mentor Coach in the largest Coch Training Institue in Denmark, for 10 + years, as well as holding a position of Head of Project for a regional based 12 week program for those of sick leave from jobs due to mental health issues like stress, depression and/or anxiety. In her private practice, she uses mindfulness and compassion based approaches, and specializes in caregivers, in building resilience in general, and in navigating in life transitions.
Helle works with varied groups, but primarily with social workers, teachers, psychologists, therapists, nurses and other industries who work in and with relations to clients, citizens, students. She offers individual and corporate compassion programs, classes, workshops, retreats and hourly consultations.
Helle is committed to bringing compassionate awareness into everyday life, so that life can be even more enjoyable and rich and meaningful. For more information about Helle, please visit her website, nordic-compassion.dk.
Jamie Lynn is a former elementary school teacher, and she has taught mindfulness and self-compassion to educators and children, at universities, and in her private work with families. She is both an author as well as the founder of Wholly Mindful, an organization that offers mindfulness, communication, and self-compassion training to individuals and families. You can read her mindfulness related blogs or view her self-compassion videos at www.whollymindful.com. Jamie Lynn is a certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, and she enjoys teaching Mindful Self-Compassion both in person as well as live-online. In addition to teaching the traditional Mindful Self-Compassion program and the Self-Compassion program for healthcare providers, Jamie Lynn also teaches Mindful Self-Compassion for teens (Making Friends with Yourself). Jamie Lynn is forever growing both as a student and a teacher, and she delights in sharing the journey of self-compassion and self-discovery with others.
Caroline is Clinical and Research Director for the UK charity Breast Cancer Haven, and offers additional mindfulness training to individuals and corporates. She has a degree in Social Work from the University of Melbourne, is a registered intensive care nurse. She published her PhD research evaluating MBSR in women affected by breast cancer in The Journal of Clinical Oncology in 2012. In 2016, Caroline completed additional training courses in Mindfulness Approaches Teacher Supervision and supervises mindfulness teachers. Caroline has been a pioneer in practicing, teaching and researching integrative medicine since the late 1980s and is trained to a professional level in a number of complementary therapies including acupuncture. She has published extensively in peer reviewed journals. Caroline loves spending time in, on or by the sea or any other form of nature. She holds the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to breast cancer.
Megan is a Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Instructor (MBSR), a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Instructor (MSC), a Certified Compassion Cultivation Instructor (CCT), an Adjunct Faculty member at San Diego State University, and a Lecturer at UC San Diego Rady Business School. She is also a Teacher Trainer and Mentor for the UC San Diego Mindfulness Based Professional Training Institute as well as a Mentor and Practicum Teacher Trainer for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. In addition to teaching Mindfulness-based programs, Megan specializes in developing and delivering mindfulness trainings for Fortune 500 companies as well as for educational, healthcare, and academic settings. She is currently collaborating with Universities to establish and instruct Mindfulness and Compassion courses at the collegiate level. In all her ventures, Megan’s passion and mission are the same: to empower individuals with an understanding of the important role they play in shaping their lives and well being. Megan believes through compassionate awareness individuals are able to utilize one of the best resources they have: themselves.
He has been working together with M. Alonso and V. Simon (pioneers of MSC in Spain) since the early steps of the MSC Spanish version, translating the MSC teachings, and helping with the website www.mindfulnessyautocompasion.com in which he is answering all the questions of the web visitors. His commitment with the MSC has been growing since 2012, so he is sharing his own self-compassion practicing experience, in order to spread the benefits of these amazing teachings to all the people who are suffering nowadays: www.sertumejoramigo.com