MSC Fall 2024 Participants
Mindful
Self-Compassion
Fall Session Has Started
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Course Details:
Cost: $525
Starts 10/2/24* and continues weekly on Wednesday evenings until 11/20/24 (*alternate initial date of 10/1 for those with 10/2 conflict).
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, on Zoom
Half-day optional online retreat, Saturday, 11/9/24, 9 AM - noon
Access to Fall MSC course website and Zoom details shared one week before class starts
This program has been approved for 16 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. NASW-MA Chapter CE Approval Program Authorization Number D 92837. CEU Cost $40.
Discounts:
$100 discount for returning Rooted Resilience
MSC students
$25 credit for a future Rooted Resilience class when you refer a friend who signs up!
“This needs to be mandatory ‘good human’ training for everybody...
...for someone who considers sharing emotion anathema to existence, I was shocked at my ability to open... and that speaks to the class’ and facilitators’ intentional defense of the safe space. :) Awesome stuff.”
The Fall MSC Course will be led
by Rooted Resilience founder
Katie Stockman, NP and Harvard/Brigham and Women’s Hospital neuroscientist Michael Ferguson, PhD.
“I have been so grateful for the class! And passing on the info to so many! Even people I don’t know that well 😂”
What to Expect
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an emotional resilience building program. It is an 8-week online course designed to help participants meet old wounds in new ways, develop practical skills, and build the emotional capacity to face new challenges from a place of strength.
Over eight weekly 2-hour experiential classes plus one half-day online mini-retreat, participants explore how they typically react when difficulties arise and learn to respond instead with the same kindness and compassion they would offer a dear friend. Thousands of academic articles on self-compassion point to the transformative power of meeting our pain with kindness. Self-compassion enhances wellbeing and the capacity for perseverance.
No previous meditation experience necessary!
Through MSC, you will learn to:
Build and apply self-compassion practices that heal, sustain, and motivate.
Recognize the tendency to react to suffering with self-criticism.
Increase moment-to-moment awareness, especially in the context of difficult situations and emotions.
Use awareness and self-compassion to transform difficult relationships.
Practice savoring and gratitude to shift negativity bias.
Clarify values and learn to orient yourself in support of those values.
Develop “pocket practices” for self-compassion on the go.
Improve your comfort and ease with meditation.
“I am LOVING the MSC program. I will be sad when it’s over. I look forward to others. It’s been wonderful.”
Katie and Michael share what MSC is and why it matters in their lives.
“Every week I leave with much more to consider in my regular practice, and in many other moments of life.”
Questions? Contact Katie.
MSC Participant Feedback
“I really enjoyed MSC. I learned a lot. I enjoyed conversation with the others in the group. I truly think it would benefit healthcare professionals and help prevent burnout and improve resilience.
I knew I was feeling burnt out by work and life, which is so common these days. I felt that in the Emergency Department I wasn't having the bandwidth for the compassion my patients deserved.
Taking MSC helped me to heal a bit and that has allowed me to reconnect internally and really open me back up to being able to offer more compassion and patience at home and at work.
I am definitely not perfect! But work in progress. I would love to continue my practice and honestly would love to eventually become someone who can help others with mindful practice.” - Kristin D.
"Very rewarding experience… Katie and Michael both have a warm and calming vibe.” - Judy H.
“It was transformative to have a “room” for me to return to where a state of optimism was normative while still allowing room for suffering with space and time to process and dispel, without guilt. We are all imperfect humans and we all struggle with something. Feeling safe to be vulnerable and trust this group made me feel proud.
I am grateful to have learned of the beauty and ease of meditation when it was introduced as a “pocket practice,” which suddenly made meditation and all of its benefits feel accessible and possible every day.” - Ana K.
“I was surprised at how quickly I was able to buy in and bare all… for someone who considers sharing emotion anathema to existence, I was shocked at my ability to open... and that speaks to the class' and facilitators' intentional defense of the safe space. :) Awesome stuff." - Jim M.
MSC Graduates Practice Group:
Mindful Mondays
Katie Stockman and Michael Ferguson trained as Mindful Self-Compassion teachers through the Self-Compassion Academy with Dr. Chris Germer and Mila de Koning.
