Mindful Self-Compassion Short Course
(MSC-Short)
with Markus Bohlmann, PhD Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher
A unique opportunity to take the 6-session MSC (Short Course) Self-Compassion
Dates and Times: Mondays, Feb 3rd through March 10th |10-11:30 am EST. Maximum 14 participants.
Fee: $250
Note: this course is live-streamed in real-time. The sessions will not be available at other times.
For more information, contact your teacher Markus Bohlmann: markus.bohlmann@mindfulnesseveryday.org
Do you wish:
- to be more grounded and centred?
- to be kinder to yourself?
- to be more loving and understanding of yourself, including your inner critic?
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) provides practical tools to do just that. MSC unfolds on the two wings of awareness of our suffering and of kindness, for it is only when we become aware of our suffering that we can hold ourselves in a loving connected presence and warm embrace.
JOIN ME for this unique opportunity to experience and learn ways to be kind to yourself within a small group setting. This online live course helps you develop the skills and capacity to be with yourself in a more befriending, compassionate way. The course is open to everyone, including those who have been marginalized and oppressed. Looking forward to welcoming you and learning with you, Markus
One Hour FREE Information Session
January 13, 2025
Join us for an engaging one-hour information session that introduces you to the transformative practice of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). This interactive session with Q & A provides insights into the program’s benefits, and how it can enhance your emotional well-being.
Course Details
The course includes 6 online live sessions of 1.5 hours each and
- Articulates basic theoretical underpinnings of self-compassion
- Develops and applies informal self-compassion practices to challenges of daily life. We learn to prevent caregiver fatigue, handle difficult emotions, align ourselves with our core values and motivate ourselves with kindness rather than criticism
- Builds community through a network of participants so you don’t feel alone
- Sessions may be recorded for training purposes
In this course you will have the opportunity to:
- Dive into basic evidence-based theory around self-compassion
- Practice how to motivate yourself with kindness rather than self-criticism
- Practice how to be with difficult emotions with more ease
- Develop tools to manage burnout
- Explore what drives you in life and how to embrace your life
- Practice self-compassion in daily life
Meet Your Facilitator
 “We need to train the heart before we follow it” ~Joseph Goldstein Markus Bohlmann, PhD, is a Certified MSC and MBCT teacher and a teacher-in-training for MSC-Teens. He has adapted the MSC program for the 2SLGBTIQ+ Community and has held several positions at the Center for Mindfulness Studies (CMSC), including translations coordination, regional coordination of MSC in Europe, as well as member of their DEIBJ Global committee. Markus has lived in the US and Canada for many years and now lives in Germany. Learn more about Markus at www.markusbohlmann.com and reach out to Markus at markus.bohlmann@mindfulnesseveryday.org Markus is part of the Self Compassion Academy: https://selfcompassionacademy.com/our-team/ Practice with Markus: Meditations
More about Markus….When I first took my MSC training, it was transformational. I felt at ease and, moreover, I felt there were practical tools that I learned that would help me reduce my suffering. And as transformational as the course was for me, it did not reflect my experience as a gay man, did not reflect the issues I was dealing with as a gay man. It did not embrace my experience as a gay man (yes, we all suffer, but we suffer differently). The course felt aloof. I nevertheless felt the need to bring MSC to the 2SLGBTQ+ community and Mindfulness Everyday supported me in offering the first MSC course for gay men in Toronto, Canada. We started off with a bunch of gay guys that would later gather in my living room every week, and we would go through the program and learn MSC together and what it meant for us. A few rounds of teaching and then later also co-teaching MSC to the 2SLGBTQ+ community with two fellow MSC teachers and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community, I have now co-adapted the MSC program with them for the 2SLGBTQ+ community to better meet 2SLGBTQ+ needs, to reflect their diverse experiences, to make MSC accessible to this minority population. The Center for Mindful Self-Compassion (CMSC), in particular MSC co-founder Christopher Germer, was very supportive of this initiative and invited us to create this adaptation, which has now launched for the first time through CMSC. It was wonderful to see a community of MSC curious people come together where we were able to learn and practice MSC not only within an inclusive community of practitioners, but within a community of belonging. For it is only when we are with people of our own kind, with kindred spirits, that such a genuine feeling of belonging emerges. We need more spaces like that, I find, also within the mindfulness community, to foster such a sense of belonging within a culture that so often tells 2SLGBTQ+ folx that they do not belong, that they are unworthy and unlovable. Here’s to more love and belonging in 2025! We all are worthy. We all belong! |
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