Chris Germer
Christopher Germer, Ph.D., is a co-developer of the MSC program and a co-founder of the Center for MSC. He is the author of the popular book, The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, and co-author (with Kristin Neff) of the professional text, Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program, and a workbook, The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook. Chris is an MSC Teacher Trainer and leads MSC intensives and workshops around the world.
Chris is also a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. Chris has been integrating the principles and practices of meditation into psychotherapy since 1978. He has co-edited two influential volumes –Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, and Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy – and he is a founding faculty member of both the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School. Chris maintains a small private practice in Arlington, Massachusetts, USA, specializing in mindfulness and compassion-based psychotherapy.
Gaila Tyano Ronen
Galia Tyano Ronen, M.A. LCP, is a licensed clinical psychologist, practicing for over thirty years. She maintains a private practice in upper Galilee, Israel, specializing in mind-body- spirit mindfulness based psychotherapy. Galia is also a certified focusing-oriented therapist, mindfulness for children and adolescents' teacher by Eline Snell and a certified self-compassion teacher in the Mindful Self-Compassion program. She is the program developer and former director of the Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy Certificate Program (SCIP) at the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. Galia is a certified mindfulness teacher by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield MMTCP continuous and a mindfulness teachers mentor and part of the cloud sangha. She is a practitioner and teacher of Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness. She teaches and gives supervision in the Mindfulness Body- Mind based psychotherapy in Shiluv center, affiliated with the University of Haifa. Galia co-created with Mirjam Luthe and Lotta adelstal in 2023 the “IDG Empathy and Compassion Hub”.
Galia has pioneered mindful self-compassion in Israel, mentoring Hebrew-speaking MSC teachers. She is responsible for the MSC program and its various translations to Hebrew in Israel, as well as representing her country in the MSC Europe Council. She created a bilingual MSC course for Arabs and Jews titled Planting Seeds of Compassion. Galia translated, scientifically edited, and narrated the meditation for the book “Sitting Still Like a Frog” by Eline Snell. She contributed a chapter on self-compassion in psychotherapy in the book "Mind the body" (Pardes , 2024) . She contributed a chapter "The mindful lens: practicing mindfulness and self-compassion through taking photos as a way of building resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic Psychology" (Silberberg, 2023).
Galia is an artist who draws her inspiration from the diversity of connections. With her local community, she creates cultural festivals based on the generosity, togetherness, free will, spirit, and talent of citizens living in Kiryat-Tivon. She tries to give the place in which she lives a sense of united, loving community, including all people near and far using earth-honoring tradition.
Lisa Baylis
Lisa Baylis has been sharing well-being strategies for the last 20 years. A natural-born connector with an innate ability to make people feel valued and heard, she is a teacher, a counsellor, a speaker, and a mother. Lisa is a published author of Self-Compassion for Educators as well as, the creator of the AWE Method — Awakening the Wellbeing for Educators — which merges self-care, mindfulness, and self-compassion.
As a teacher, Lisa has taught internationally and locally. Much of her vast teaching experience was gained in classrooms across British Columbia as a school counsellor. She is currently a Doctoral student at UBCO while working in the role as Education Director for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, the non-profit organization created by Drs. Kristin Neff and Chris Germer to spread self-compassion around the world
Shari Geller, PhD
Dr. Shari Geller is an author, clinical psychologist, certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher and leader in the field of therapeutic presence.
Shari offers training in therapeutic presence internationally as part of a longer-term vision for presence to be foundational in psychotherapy training across approaches. With over thirty years’ experience weaving psychology and mindfulness, she has several publications including seminal books Therapeutic Presence: A Mindful Approach to Effective Therapeutic Relationships (2nd Edition, 2022) with Leslie Greenberg and A Practical Guide to Cultivating Therapeutic Presence (2017). She is also co-editor of the book Grounding Psychotherapy in Self-Compassion.
Shari serves on the teaching faculty in Health Psychology at York University and is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, in association with Music and Health Research Collaboratory (MaHRC).
Shari is actively involved in various professional committees including the Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy (SCIP) certificate program and is the Chair for the Membership and Networking Committee for the International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy (isEFT). Shari is the founder and co-director of the Centre for MindBody Health, in Toronto, where she offers training, supervision and therapy in Emotion-Focused therapy (EFT) and Mindfulness and Self-Compassion modalities for individuals and couples. Shari enjoys playing the HandPan and djembe and founded the Therapeutic Rhythm and Mindfulness Program (TRM™). Her love of nature and her dogs, along with her 35-year personal meditation practice helps to keep her present in the moment.
SCIP Learning Objectives
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Who Should Attend
This session is suitable for everyone, including mental health and healthcare professionals at all levels, and SCIP graduates. Prerequisites Needed: None, all are welcome to attend!
You will receive an email with the discount code within 2 days after your Intro Session, so please do not register before you receive that code as we are unable to provide equivalent refunds. For more information on our Refunds, please visit our policies page.
You do not need to sign up for an SCIP class with the same SCIP Info Session instructor. Please note that discounts cannot be stacked or combined.
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Scholarships
A limited number of scholarships are available. You can apply for a scholarship using the Scholarship Application. Places will be offered in the order application forms are received. 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.)
Course access to Materials and Session Recordings
After you complete each course or workshop, you'll have access to the content for 90 days if you want to review it at your convenience.
Please note that we will record each live session, and the recordings will be available within 48 hours in the respective lesson of the course.
Course Overview:
The Self-Compassion In Psychotherapy (SCIP) Step one addresses a crucial need within the therapeutic community. It identifies a gap in the integration of self-compassion practices into psychotherapy. The program is a response to the growing acknowledgment among psychotherapists of the importance of self-compassion for mental health and wellbeing. It aims to equip therapists who have benefited from Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) practices with the skills to incorporate these principles into their clinical work. Furthermore, it seeks to support clinicians in using their personal mindfulness and compassion practices as a foundation for fostering effective therapeutic relationships and interventions. This initiative is also driven by the desire to offer a continuing education experience that is inclusive and welcoming to all identities and intersections of identity, addressing the call for greater diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in therapeutic practices.
- 12 weekly sessions, 3 hours each
- Total contact time: 36 hours
- CE credits are available for $125 |
- Please select SCIP Part 1 for the payment option to ensure you are under the correct course/cost