NOTE: Please direct any enquiries regarding this event to the workshop organiser, Marie Bloomfield at marie@bloomfieldpsychology.com.au
Presenters: Marie Bloomfield, Clinical Psychologist and John Julian, Social Worker, both Senior Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teachers.
Date: March 21st - March 25th, 2022
Time: Monday 9:00am to Friday 1:00pm
Location: Pacific Surf Life Saving Club, 1291 Gold Coast Highway, Palm Beach
Price: Early bird (ends 8th October): $980.00 Regular: $1090.00
Mindful Self-Compassion Intensive for Professionals is a wonderful didactic and experiential workshop presenting powerful practices from the empirically validated Mindful Self-Compassion program (designed by Kristin Neff and Chris Germer) that you can use in your own life and also teach your clients.
This workshop is for Professionals who would like to feel more compassionate and resilient from the inside out. As helping professionals, we know the power of compassion. We use it every day when we care for others. It contains what we all yearn: feelings of acceptance, comfort, kindness and love. What happens when we turn this power onto ourselves? Mindful Self-compassion (MSC) is a brave new way to care for ourselves that is uplifting and empowering. The training program consists of easy, simple ways to soothe and calm that you can use on the go, during times of stress to increase the ability to resolve challenges and to enjoy life. Once we learn those skills for ourselves, we can teach them effectively to others. Everyone will benefit!
Who is it for?
This workshop is for professionals who value and wish to integrate mindfulness and self-compassion into their life and work to enhance their clinical skills while preventing burnout.
Mindful Self-Compassion has been very popular among professionals such as psychologists, social workers, counsellors, medical practitioners, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, teachers, yoga/mindfulness teachers, personal trainers, coaches, nurses, lawyers, managers, accountant and so on, who wish to integrate mindfulness and self-compassion in their personal life and in their work practices.
We target a wide variety of professionals in our program, and we use a broad definition. Professionals are defined as anyone who is employed or volunteer in some capacity to help others, be it in the health or medical sectors as well as in education, welfare, wellness, legal, business, defence, or environmental sectors. Students are also welcome and can apply for discounts.
Beginners are welcome as well as others who may have a more regular practice in mindfulness or meditation. If you have attended other mindfulness-based programs such as MBSR or MBCT this course will help you to extend and deepen your practice in self-compassion.
The workshop is endorsed by the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) and promoted on the Australian Psychologist Society(APS) on the calendar of events.
Training objectives
After participating in this workshop, you’ll be more able to:
• Practice mindfulness and self-compassion in daily life
• Become more aware and able to attend skillfully to your needs and the needs of others
• Cultivate feelings of goodwill, kindness and warmth towards self and others
• Motivate ourself and others with encouragement rather than harsh self-criticism
• Deal with struggles with courage, acceptance and resilience
• Regulate difficult emotions with more ease
• Learn from failures and inadequacies with understanding and kindness
• Find the silver lining in our challenges
• Live life intentionally, imbued with core values for more meaning and satisfaction
• Become aware and able to attend skilfully to your needs and needs of others
• Begin to transform difficult relationships
• Manage burnout, caregiver fatigue and vicarious trauma
• Practice the art of savouring, self-appreciation and gratitude
• Teach simple mindfulness and self-compassion practices to patients, clients, students and children
Further information is available here