Summer 2025 Mindful Self Compassion 8 week Group & Daylong Retreat

Build an inner world that supports a thriving life. 

Train in Mindful Self Compassion in 2025.

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.

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.

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

4pm to 6pm Thursdays starting July 10, 2025 to August 28, 2025  at 201 McLeod or online

with Daylong Retreat  9 am to 3pm Sunday August 17 at Yoga Garden Retreat

Investment: $1000.00  for 8 weeks x 2 hours per week = 16 hours plus one 8 hour retreat = 24 hours of contact (1000 divided by 24  = less than $42 per hour of psychological service.) 

Course fee includes:

• One person non-transferable access to 8 weeks of teaching and practice support in a psychologically safe, confidential in person environment guided by a senior psychologist who is also a senior certified mindful self compassion teacher and IMTA registered professional mindfulness teacher.
• Weekly home practices supported by guided audios.
• A supportive confidential practice community to enhance your motivation and success.
• One free membership to the Ottawa River Integrative Mental Health Inc app with private course material room.
• One person access to a private silent teacher-led daylong mindfulness retreat March 15, 2025.
• ORIMH MSC Alumni early access to follow up ORIMH Mindful Self Compassion Alumni retreats, intensives and mindfulness events.

Register

Registration is through the Jane app for Ottawa River Integrative Mental Health Inc

You may register by calling the Ottawa River Integrative Mental Health Inc. Care Coordinator at 613-656-3331 M to F or by sending a secure message expressing your interest and requesting an ORIMH Care Coordinator contact you here: https://hushforms.com/ottawariverintegrative-secure-contact-form-5421

Location:

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

Online option available for participants in exceptional circumstances.

Your Teacher:

Dr Kimberly Sogge PhD Cpysch is a registered clinical health psychologist and certified mindfulness and compassion teacher (IMTA, CMSC) with over 20 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, Mark Coleman and many other Spirit Rock Meditation Center teachers 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.

Co-facilitators are Dr. Tripti Jaiswal and Yastika Kamboj MA Psychology Fellow

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 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.

This course is the first step in the process to becoming a Certified Mindful Self Compassion Teacher through the Univerrsity of California San Diego Mindfulness Based Professional Training Institute and the Center for Mindful Self Compassion.

Refund Policy:

No refunds, transfers only