After you enroll, you’ll receive a confirmation email with:

• The course Zoom link
• Short participant information form
• A brief guide on how to prepare for our first session on June 23

Within 24 hours of your enrollment, we’ll also add you to the calendar invites for all sessions. You’ll also receive reminder emails leading up to our start date.

Each class will include meditations, short talks, poems, experiential exercises, group discussions, and simple home practices. These are live, interactive workshop‑style classes. The goal is for you to directly experience self‑compassion and learn practices that evoke self‑compassion in your daily life. Here's a more detailed outline of each session topic:

Session 1: Introduction to Mindful Self‑Compassion
Orient to the program, clarify what self‑compassion is (and isn’t), and explore how it supports well‑being.

Session 2: Practicing Mindfulness
Deepen present‑moment awareness, understand resistance and backdraft, and learn to anchor daily life in mindfulness and self‑compassion.

Session 3: Practicing Kindness
Differentiate kindness from compassion and cultivate a felt sense of both through loving‑kindness phrases and practice.

Session 4: Discovering Your Compassionate Voice
Develop a compassionate inner voice through loving‑kindness meditation, recognizing stages of growth, and shifting from criticism to encouragement.

Session 5: Living Deeply
Use breath and compassion practices to align with your core values, find meaning in difficulty, and listen to others with self‑compassion.

Silent Retreat (Optional)
Immerse in an integrated sequence of mindfulness and self‑compassion practices, savoring the experience within a silent retreat container.

Session 6: Meeting Difficult Emotions
Learn to meet difficult emotions with mindfulness and self‑compassion and relate to shame in a way that softens its impact.

Session 7: Exploring Challenging Relationships
Tend to unmet needs in relationships with self‑compassion and balance caregiving using compassion and equanimity.

Session 8: Embracing Your Life
Practice savoring, gratitude, and self‑appreciation while integrating key insights and commitments to carry forward after the course ends.

MSC is primarily a compassion‑training program, with mindfulness as the foundation, and is not psychotherapy or crisis support. The emphasis is on building emotional resources now rather than processing old wounds, and beneficial change tends to emerge naturally as you learn to be with yourself in a kinder, more compassionate way.

Compassion is a positive, energizing emotion, and sometimes “love reveals everything unlike itself.” As you practice, difficult feelings may surface. We’ll provide a safe, supportive environment for this process and do our best to make the journey steady and respectful for everyone.

Recordings: If you miss a session or two, recordings will be available for 1 week after each class so you can catch up.

Between‑session practice: To get the most out of the course, plan for 15–30 minutes of practice most days between sessions (brief meditations, informal exercises, or reflections).

Aspiring MSC Teachers: In order to receive a certificate of completion you need to attend at least 80% of the sessions. 

If something happens and you can no longer attend, we’re happy to process a full refund minus payment processing fees and taxes up until June 10. After that date, tuition is non‑refundable.

Yes. If the full tuition is a barrier, we offer limited sliding‑scale spots and scholarships.

Please complete the scholarship form at the bottom of this page and share why you’re drawn to the course, how the current tuition is a stretch, and what you could realistically afford or what kind of payment plan would make participation possible.