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Mindful Self-Compassion

Turn your Inner Critic into your Inner Coach

Successful leaders invariably strive to be better...it's the reason for their success afterall. However, this can often go hand in hand with a tendency to drive themselves into the ground to achieve more, excel more….never feeling that what they are doing is enough. 

Women leaders especially find this tendency spills out beyond the world of work and into other areas of their lives. 

Do you find yourself  juggling a million things, trying to keep everyone else happy but are often left feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and dissatisfied?  Mindful Self Compassion can be an antidote for this.

Mindful self-compassion replaces your ‘inner critic’ with your ‘inner coach’ helping you achieve more in a kinder more supportive way.  Avoiding the pitfalls of an inner critic that can reduce confidence, and drive perfectionism and a fear of failure.  Research has shown that those with higher levels of self-compassion, are more likely to persist when the going gets tough and pick themselves up when setbacks occur. 

Self-compassion and Leadership

Research has shown that Self-compassion increases wellbeing, physical health, happiness, optimism, resilience whilst reducing stress, anxiety, depression and burnout.  All useful for sustainable leadership.  In addition, it leads to more compassionate, caring and supportive relationships and increased personal ownership, accountability, goal striving behaviours.  Leaders modelling these healthy behaviours positively impacts their teams and organisational culture.  Ultimately inspiring others to behave at their best.

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Mindful Self-Compassion Course

The Short Course in Mindful Self-Compassion (SC-MSC) is a 6-week adaptation of the empirically-supported 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program designed to begin the cultivation of the skills of self-compassion.

SC-MSC was developed by globally recognised self compassion experts Dr Kristin Neff and Dr Christopher Germer. This SC-MSC 6-hour course was developed to allow attendees to learn a targeted set of MSC practices that can be used in their daily life.

This online group course is usually conducted over a 6 week period with each session lasting 75 minutes. Mindful Self Compassion training is also available in a one on one coaching format.

Course Objectives

At the completion of this activity, you will be able to:

  • Be familiar with the basic theoretical underpinnings and research findings related to self-compassion

  • Develop and apply self-compassion practices to motivate yourself with encouragement rather than self-criticism

  • Develop the capacity to contend with challenges and difficulties through awareness of self-kindness, common humanity and mindfulness.

  • Apply core self-compassion practices into daily life

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