Mindful Self-Compassion: - Wise Compassion

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Becoming a Warm and Supportive Companion to Ourselves

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Becoming a Warm and Supportive Companion to Ourselves

Most of us feel compassion for our close friends when they are struggling. What would it be like to receive the same caring attention from yourself when you need it most?

Talking to ourselves with kindness when we suffer, fail or feel inadequate doesn’t always come naturally. We may be caught in our shame and reactivity or believe that we need to be self-critical to motivate ourselves and do better next time.

But research has shown that self-criticism actually makes us feel more anxious, incompetent and depressed while meeting ourselves with kindness and understanding builds inner strength.

Fortunately, everyone can learn self-compassion. When we do, we can experience greater emotional wellbeing, improve anxiety and depression, sustain healthier habits and enjoy more satisfying personal relationships.

That’s why I hope you’ll join me for Mindful Self-Compassion: Cultivating the Skills to Support Ourselves with Kindness, a 6-session online short-course to explore how we typically respond when difficulties arise in our lives and learn new tools for becoming a warm and supportive companion to ourselves.

When You Decide To Join Us For Mindful
Self-Compassion, You Will:

Discover how to connect with your innate compassion for others and include yourself in that circle.
Develop the skills to soothe and motivate yourself in times of difficulty with encouragement rather than self-criticism.
Expand your capacity to contend with life’s challenges and difficulties through awareness of self-kindness, common humanity and mindfulness.
Leave with an inner strength that enables you to be more fully human—more fully yourself.

Here’s What People Say About How Practicing Self-Compassion Changed Their Lives and Their Relationships:

“I discovered that suffering is universal, and it can be tolerable. I can be my own strength. I can look within my own experiences and my own heart to cultivate the kind of courage that I need to face suffering and take steps forward without relying on other people to do it for me.”

~Janina

“No one ever teaches us to fully embrace the human condition. How can we be with suffering and not have it deplete us, but have the resiliency that’s needed? Michelle teaches us that and it’s very life-affirming. It increased my joy. My life is richer and fuller. There’s a sweetness there.”

~ Judith

Workshop Materials and Resources

When you register, you’ll get access to everything you need to take full advantage of the course. This course includes:

6 LIVE 90-minute online teaching sessions led by Michelle – that you can access anywhere from any Internet-enabled device.
Downloadable handouts – so you can reference these teachings again and again.
Exercises – designed to help you integrate the teachings into your life.

Registration Is Now Closed For

Mindful Self-Compassion:
Cultivating the Skills to Support
Ourselves with Kindness

Beginning Tuesday, June 21, 2022
6 – 7:30 p.m. PT

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Can couples take this course together?

Yes! This course is for individuals – those in or not in primary relationships. Each individual registers separately and is welcome.

2. Are there any prerequisites?

No. While some background knowledge in mindfulness and compassion is helpful, it is not required. This program uses the skills of mindfulness and compassion to teach individuals how to navigate the difficulties that inevitably arise in life and treat ourselves with kindness and encouragement instead of self-criticism.

3. When do the LIVE meetings happen?

Live meetings with Michelle Becker and your cohort occur once a week, for six weeks beginning Tuesday, June 21st. Each meeting will be 90 minutes. Weekly meetings will occur on Tuesdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. PST / 8 to 9:30 p.m CT / 9 to 10:30 p.m. ET. We will skip Tuesday, July 5th due to Independence Day and resume on Tuesday, July 12th.

4. What happens if I can’t make one of the LIVE meetings?

Each session builds on the previous one so that you feel relaxed and confident in each new skill before moving on to the next. Please make every effort to ensure that your schedule allows for you to attend every session so that you may experience the full benefit of the workshop.

About Michelle Becker, M.A., LMFT

Michelle Becker is a licensed marriage and family therapist and compassion teacher who knows that human beings thrive in healthy, well connected relationships. Yet, that’s not always our experience. She also recognized that most of us are underdeveloped in skills that are fundamental to those relationships – compassion and wisdom. She founded Wise Compassion with the bold intention of changing the way we relate to each other.

Through workshops, keynotes, podcasts, live events and online education, Michelle shares the knowledge and tools required for people to relate to each other better.

A teacher of teachers, she is co-developer of the Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher Training, a mentor of MSC teachers and teacher trainers, a senior teacher of the Compassion Cultivation Training program and a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator.

She is passionate about connecting people with experts, current research and useful practices. Michelle is the developer of the Compassion for Couples™ program.

Michelle is also the founder and leader of the Well Connected online learning community — a group of individuals dedicated to developing their compassion skills and practicing (extra)ordinary acts that create resilient relationships. Members receive free access to Michelle’s Well Connected Relationships monthly podcast and Compassion-Builder emails full of actionable advice anyone can use to develop compassion skills and change the way you relate to yourself and others.

About Wise Compassion

At Wise Compassion, we offer compassion training to people who want to change the way they relate to others – and ultimately experience more resilience, trust, healthy connection and satisfaction in their relationships.

We focus on compassion because of its unique power to alleviate the human suffering – our own and others’ – that so often occurs inside our relationships. Building compassion skills is also something everyone can do, once you discover how.

We focus on wisdom because it helps us see clearly in our relationships and discern what would be truly compassionate, not just nice or compliant. Just as a bird needs two wings to fly, we must cultivate compassion with wisdom for our relationships to truly thrive.

When you can tap into that wisdom and compassion with ease, it changes the way you relate to others. And your relationships get better! For more information, visit wisecompassion.com.