Summer 2023 Mindful Self Compassion 5 Day Intensive

with Dr. Kimberly Sogge C.Psych. & Yastika Kamboj MA

This course is available both in person and online. Choose which modality you prefer in the tickets section on the registration link.

Is Mindful Self Compassion for you?

If you are too hard on your self, learn the skills of befriending your own heart through the research supported mindful self compassion curriculum. Learn to manage difficulty with more ease and kindness.

Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) combines the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion to enhance our emotional well-being. While mindfulness increases our awareness of the present, self-compassion encourages greater kindness and understanding of periods of suffering. It also helps us accept our flaws and better understand our challenges.

MSC is a research-supported program developed by Dr. Kristin Neff and Dr. Christopher Germer. Research on self-compassion have shown that it boosts happiness and improves relationships while reducing anxiety, depression and shame. Increased levels of self-compassion can transform empathy fatigue into wholehearted engagement with others.

As the name suggests, the MSC intensive in Nature is a deep dive into the practice of self-compassion in the support of a beautiful natural environment. While it can be emotionally challenging, concentrated MSC practice allows you to become deeply involved in MSC and experience its transformative potential. Learn to manage difficulty with more ease and kindness. This MSC Intensive is very special as there will be additional emphasis on nature connection and accessing the ecological Self Leadership that emerges from deep personal practice of mindfulness in nature.

Participants Will Learn:

To befriend their self–critic, develop self-compassion skills, and foster goodwill towards themselves and others. This eight week course explores typical responses as difficulties arise.

HOW IS AN INTENSIVE DIFFERENT FROM AN 8 WEEK COURSE?

An MSC Intensive is a deep dive into the research based practices of MSC starting Sunday evening and going until Friday at noon. All material from the 8 week MSC course is covered in this 5 day intensive including the retreat which is a half day rather than a full day in the middle of the week.

MSC Training Modules Covered During this Intensive:

Session 1:  Discovering Mindful Self-Compassion

Session 2:  Practicing Mindfulness

Session 3:  Practicing Loving-Kindness

Session 4:  Discovering Your Compassionate Voice

Session 5:  Living Deeply

Session 6:  Meeting Difficult Emotions

Session 7:  Exploring Challenging Relationships

Session 8:  Embracing Your Life

Who Should Attend

All are welcome. No previous experience with mindfulness or meditation is required. This program qualifies as the prerequisite for training as a Mindful Self-Compassion teacher.

When:

Sunday 9 Jul 2023, 6:00 PM – Friday 14 Jul 2023, 12:00 PM

Fees: $795

Course fee includes course handouts and guided meditations.

Location:

201 McLeod Street unit 100 centrally located in downtown Ottawa , Ontario

Your Teacher:

Dr Kimberly Sogge, PhD., C.Psych is a registered clinical health psychologist and certified mindfulness and compassion teacher (IMTA, CMSC) with 18 years of dedicated experience as a practitioner of insight, compassion and nature-based meditation. She has had the benefit of skilled in person practice, training and mentoring from esteemed secular meditation teachers such as Jon Kabat Zinn, Kristin Neff, and Mark Coleman as well as with monastics and lay teachers from both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist traditions. Kimberly combines her lived experience of personal transformation through meditation and contemplative practice in nature with 30+ years of training and experience as a psychotherapist and psychologist. She draws from trauma-informed, somatic, internal family systems, compassion focused, and contextual behavioral science perspectives to create containers for re-alignment, transformation and renewed love for self and the living world in her courses and retreats. She specializes in work with burnout and stress in high performers, specifically physicians, and welcomes all who suffer from perfectionism and control to find liberation and compassionate self leadership.

Other Details:

• Insurance receipts will not be available prior to the last program session.
• All participants must be free of substances
• All participants must follow ORIMH COVID protocols for in person services
• All participants must attend 80% of sessions to qualify for a certificate of completion
• An invoice will be provided upon completion for this group activity under the clinician’s name and license number. If you have third-party insurance, it may cover all or part of the cost of a therapeutic course. We recommend that you contact your insurance provider to confirm what health professions your plan covers (e.g. Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Naturopath) and that this coverage includes the types of therapies in question (sometimes there are restrictions on the particular services covered by a given health profession). Please confirm that the profession is covered by your insurance and that the program is not an excluded service for that profession. Insurance receipts will be issued during the final session of the program.
• Professional CEUs available in the form of a participation certificate which confirms the number of hours completed throughout the course.

Refund Policy:
No refunds, transfers only