2024 September Cohort: Mindfulness Self-Compassion for Parents
2025 February Cohort: Mindful Self-Compassion (standard)
This Fall join our transformative 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program designed specifically for parents seeking to enhance their emotional resilience and cultivate self-love while caring for their children. Led by Clara Bossie, MS, LMFT-QS, from Wisely Wellness, an expert in childhood development and disabilities, alongside Dr. Patty Shutt of Sacred Treehouse, a celebrated psychologist and mindfulness expert, this program offers invaluable mindfulness skills and self-compassion techniques to help you navigate parenting challenges with ease and confidence.
8-week MSC: Wednesdays 10am-12pm, September 25th – November 13th
What is MSC?
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an empirically supported training program developed by Dr. Kristin Neff and Dr. Christopher Germer. Research has shown that MSC significantly boosts emotional well-being, reduces anxiety and depression, and enhances coping skills. MSC combines mindfulness and self-compassion skills to foster emotional resilience. The program includes the following core components:
· Self-Kindness: Treating oneself with care and understanding rather than harsh self-judgment.
· Common Humanity: Recognizing that suffering and difficulty are a shared human experience.
· Mindfulness: Maintaining a balanced awareness of one’s emotions rather than ignoring pain or exaggerating it.
This MSC program is uniquely tailored for parents of children at any age and developmental stage, including those navigating varying abilities and challenges. It will take place in person at the Sacred Treehouse studio in Boca Raton, FL. Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your parenting skills and foster a nurturing environment for your family. Register now to embark on this empowering journey!
MSC was developed by Christopher K. Germer, PhD, leader in the integration of mindfulness and psychotherapy, and Kristin Neff, PhD, pioneering researcher in the field of self-compassion. MSC combines the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion, providing a powerful tool for emotional resilience. Mindfulness is the first step in emotional healing—being able to turn toward and acknowledge our difficult thoughts and feelings (such as inadequacy, sadness, anger, confusion) with a spirit of openness and curiosity. Self-compassion involves responding to these difficult thoughts and feelings with kindness, sympathy and understanding so that we soothe and comfort ourselves when we’re hurting. Research has shown that self-compassion greatly enhances emotional wellbeing. It boosts happiness, reduces anxiety and depression, and can even help maintain healthy lifestyle habits such as diet and exercise. Being both mindful and compassionate leads to greater ease and well-being in our daily lives.
Who can benefit from MSC?
MSC can be learned by anyone. It’s the practice of repeatedly evoking good will toward ourselves especially when we’re suffering—cultivating the same desire that all living beings have to live happily and free from suffering.
Most of us feel compassion when a close friend is struggling. What would it be like to receive the same caring attention whenever you needed it most? All that’s required is a shift in the direction of our attention—recognizing that as a human being, you, too, are a worthy recipient of compassion.
In MSC you’ll learn:
- how to stop being so hard on yourself
- how to handle difficult emotions with greater ease
- how to motivate yourself with encouragement rather than criticism
- how to transform difficult relationships, both old and new
- mindfulness and self-compassion practices for home and everyday life
- the theory and research behind mindful self-compassion
- how to become your own best teacher
Is MSC effective?
A randomized, controlled trial demonstrated that MSC significantly increased self-compassion, compassion for others, mindfulness, and life satisfaction, as well as decreased depression, anxiety and stress. Improvements were linked to how much a person practiced mindfulness and self-compassion in their daily lives. For the full-text article, please click here (PDF).