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Center for Mindful Self-Compassion

CMSC offers training in Mindful Self-Compassion based on research & established teaching methods. Founded in 2012 by Kristin Neff, PhD and Christopher K.
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Germer, PhD, the center is a place where people can access self-compassion resources, discover MSC programs in their area, and explore MSC teacher training.

15/08/2025

💪 Unlock Your Inner Strength with Fierce Self-Compassion Starts Sept 4, 2025 | with Natalie Bell & Heather Shaughnessy-Cato

Go beyond gentle self-care and discover how compassion can empower you to set healthy boundaries, harness anger as constructive energy, and take courageous action for yourself and others.

🌿 What you’ll gain:
• Motivation without self-criticism
• Skills to say “no” and protect your well-being
• Tools to meet your needs with strength + kindness

🎓 For anyone with some prior MSC experience—open to the public and professionals.
📅 Sept 4 – Oct 23 | Live sessions + 90-day replay access
🎟 Scholarships available

💥 Use the code MSCEARLYGRAD to save $100!💥
Missed Discounts: Refunds will not be given for missed coupon codes or discounts.

👉 Learn more & register here or link in bio: https://centerformsc.org/products/september-4-fsc

13/08/2025

💞 Self-Compassion Phrase: "May I give myself permission to savor and enjoy my food, one bite at a time."

Today’s phrase invites you to approach food with mindful and self-compassionate awareness. During your next meal or snack, give yourself permission to savor each bite you take in, honoring your body’s needs while connecting to the present moment.

Before you begin eating, take a moment to reflect on your relationship with food—how it has been shaped by your culture, family, and experiences. Notice how the food looks, smells, sounds, and feels, allowing each of your senses to be activated. Appreciate the earth, and the many hands that brought it to you, from the farmer to the grocer to the chef, restaurant server, or friend or family member (or yourself) who cooked for you.

As you eat, take it slow and notice each sensation: the anticipation of your first bite, the taste, the feeling of swallowing. Allow yourself to truly enjoy the act of eating, one bite at a time.

Afterward, check in with your body—ask yourself, "How do I feel now?" And then ask yourself, "How do I want to feel?" Letting go of judgment, what might you do at your next meal to nurture yourself? Eating can be an act of self-compassion.

07/08/2025

Feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, or just plain stuck in big emotions?

Join us on Wednesday, August 27th from 5–6:30pm PT for Working with Difficult Emotions through MSC with Noriko Morita Harth

This 90-minute experiential workshop offers practical tools from Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) to help you meet anger, frustration, and emotional overwhelm with steadiness and care.

Learn to:
✨ Recognize and respond to difficult emotions in the moment
✨ Ground yourself with body-based practices
✨ Use self-kindness to regulate your nervous system and take wise action

Whether you're brand new to MSC or want to deepen your practice, you'll leave with a pocket-sized toolkit for emotional resilience.

💛 Open to all — no experience required.
📍 Online | 🎟️ Register now at https://centerformsc.org

04/08/2025

🌿 Upcoming Offerings from CMSC 🌿
Join us for these powerful online courses starting soon:

✨ Live Online Mindful Self-Compassion (10 Week Course) with Helle Laursen
Begins August 22 | Fridays, 8–10am PT

💛 Working with Difficult Emotions through MSC Workshop with Noriko Morita Harth
August 27 | Wednesday, 5–6:30pm PT

🩺 Self-Compassion for Healthcare Communities (SCHC 6 Week Course) with Adrienne Gaudet
Starts September 3 | Wednesdays, 9–10am PT

✨ Live Online Mindful Self-Compassion (10 Week Course) with Aimee Eckhardt
Begins September 10 | Wednesdays, 9–11am PT

Whether you're new to Mindful Self-Compassion or looking to revisit core practices, there's something here for you. 💗

👉 Learn more and register: https://centerformsc.org

31/07/2025

💞 Self-Compassion Phrase: ""I ask my body what it needs and practice compassionately listening to it, making time to rest, move, or settle into stillness, if only for a minute."

Self-compassion encourages us to turn toward our bodies with curiosity and care. As we practice compassionate listening, we acknowledge these needs without judgment, holding space for our experiences. When we respond with acts of kindness—perhaps by resting, finding stillness, or moving our bodies—to honor our body’s signals, it begins to respond in kind. Even when we can’t meet every need, the act of listening itself is a way to care for ourselves, strengthening the connection between body and mind and reminding us of our innate worthiness of compassion.

Compassionate body listening can be done in several ways. One way is through a compassionate walking practice, which can be done for as little or as long as you like—from a few seconds of noticing with kindness your feet shifting from left to right as you move from your bed to the bathroom or from the house to the car. Or it can be a longer walk in nature, savoring its beauty through your senses for 15-60 minutes.

Whatever amount of time you choose, offering your body tenderness and gratitude for all that it allows you to experience can help answer the question, "What do I need?"

24/07/2025

💟 Join Us this Saturday for a Free Live Online Donation-Supported Fundraiser for CMSC 💟
Mid-Year Live Online Self-Compassion Retreat
“Renewal: Standing Strong, Staying Kind, Finding Joy in Uncertain Times”

🕛 Date & Time
Saturday, July 26, 2025
• 8 am – 11 am PT (Europe/Americas Session) Check your time zone here.
• 4 pm – 7 pm PT (Australasia/Americas Session) Check your time zone here.
Attend one, two, three, or all six sessions.

✨ About the Retreat
Grounded in Mindful Self-Compassion, this day offers a chance to sit in companionable silence, calm your mind, rest in lovingkindness, and reconnect with your inner resilience. Through practices that cultivate mindfulness, common humanity, and self-kindness—including learning to sit with uncertainty and lean into moments of ease and joy when they arise—you’ll build a buffer against life’s challenges.

Guided by CMSC Co-Founders Kristin Neff and Chris Germer, along with senior MSC teachers from around the globe who generously volunteer their time so that everyone can attend for free, you’ll find a nurturing space to slow down and deepen your sense of shared humanity.

Come sit with our global community. All are welcome to attend, learn, and grow together. If you’re unable to attend live, register anyway to receive free access to the replay recordings for seven days following the retreat.

RSVP Link in Comments

10/07/2025

From natural disasters and armed conflict to political and social unrest, and to the quieter and more personal heartbreaks rarely spoken aloud, so many of us are living with a background hum of grief, fear, and uncertainty.

We invite you to explore these 10 self-compassion practices from the Mindful Self-Compassion program that can help support you through terrible tragedy, along with brief explanations.

These gentle, research-based practices are designed to help you:
💜 Ground yourself in moments of overwhelm
💜 Hold space for grief, fear, and anger
💜 Reconnect with common humanity
💜 Find strength through softness

This resource is free and available to all. Please feel free to share it with anyone who might need support right now.

Link in bio or here: https://shorturl.at/4dDaU

01/07/2025

🌞 Join Us for a Compassion-Filled July at CMSC! 💜

We’re celebrating the heart of summer with offerings to support your well-being, deepen your practice, and connect in community. Here's what’s coming up in July:

Live Online MSC Course with Caroline Hoffman
🗓 Tuesdays, starting July 15 | ⏰ 9–11am PT

International Self-Compassion Day (ISCD)
🗓 July 19
🌍 A global celebration of Common Humanity 💫

Free Mid-Year Self-Compassion Retreat
Renewal: Standing Strong, Staying Kind, Finding Joy in Uncertain Times
🗓 July 26
⏰ 8–11am PT (Europe/Americas)
⏰ 4–7pm PT (Australasia/Americas)
🎁 Donation-supported and open to all!

Live Online MSC Course with Raphael Jay Adjani
🗓 Saturdays, starting July 26 | ⏰ 5–7pm PT

Let July be a month of reconnection—with yourself and others around the globe. 🌿

👉 Learn more & register: centerformsc.org

27/06/2025

💞 Self-Compassion Phrase: "I am worthy of rest and renewal. I give myself permission to rest and recharge."

Taking time to recharge and giving yourself permission to rest is an important part of self-care, and self-care is an act of self-compassion.

Rest and renewal can come in different forms: sitting in silence, taking a nap, listening to a guided meditation, walking in nature, or simply pausing to breathe deeply for a few inhales and exhales (like right now :).

In the MSC course half-day retreat, we focus on helping you connect with your inner presence, your body, and your experiences with awareness and kindness. One way of doing this is by acknowledging your body and all it does for you with a body scan.

You can do a brief body scan to ground and calm yourself in less than a minute right now by reading this paragraph and pausing just for a second with each body part. Bringing your awareness to your feet and toes, and now traveling upward through your calves, knees, thighs, hips, buttocks, pelvic area, lower back, spine, abdomen, chest, arms, shoulders, neck, face, back of the head, crown of the head, and now gently bringing yourself back to your breath, feeling the energy of life flowing through you, bringing a smile to your face, and now moving back into your day.

18/06/2025

💗 Caregivers, this one’s for you.

Join Dr. Kristin Neff this Saturday, June 21 for a Live Online Self-Compassion Workshop for Caregivers, a gentle space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with your own well-being.

Whether you’re caring for others professionally or personally, this 3-hour workshop offers powerful practices to help you:
🌿 Care for yourself without guilt
🌿 Navigate burnout with kindness
🌿 Cultivate inner resilience

📅 Saturday, June 21
🕘 9am–12pm PT / 12–3pm ET
💻 Online – Join from anywhere

👉 Register now at link in bio or here: https://centerformsc.org/products/june-21-sccaregiversworkshop

13/06/2025

💞 Self-Compassion Phrase: "May I remember what deeply matters to me and make time to honor it today."

As we move through each day, it’s easy to get caught up in the rush of responsibilities and distractions. Yet, when we take a moment to pause and remember what truly matters to us, we reconnect with our deepest values. This simple intention—to show our values through our actions—guides us toward a life that feels more aligned and purposeful.

By intentionally living from a place of integrity, we not only nurture our own well-being but also contribute to the world around us in ways that reflect our truest selves. Even the smallest actions can carry great meaning when they are rooted in what we most cherish.

Decide on one thing you can do in the next 24 hours that reflects what matters most deeply to you—and then do it. Schedule it in your calendar, or send yourself a text, add it to an alarm on your phone, or send yourself an email; whatever it is, honor it. That's an act of self-compassion.

11/06/2025

🌟 Get to know the team behind CMSC 🌟
👋 Meet Eliza - Program Manager, Self-Compassion hype girl, student support enthusiast

"After taking my LOMSC, being surrounded by MSC practitioners and curriculum, and really learning more about self-compassion, I've been able to show up for myself more in moments of stress. This is especially important while helping my kids navigate their stress, perceived failure, and shame. It's also really helped me be kind to myself when I know I haven't done my best, when I've stumbled, or when I've made a mistake. Learning how to be a good friend to myself - and showing my kids and partner how to be a good friend to themselves - is a gift I know that will impact us forever.

I have been at CMSC for a little under a year now and I really try to savor moments, every day. This can be a small moment or a big moment, but being present and mindful of the ways in which I can savor the good things in my days has been a real shift in my everyday life.

It is always my goal to be helpful - in as many ways as possible. Whether I'm responding to an email about curriculum access, submitting your continuing education information, or answering questions about upcoming courses, my whole day revolves around making sure YOUR experience with MSC and CMSC is exceptional and filled with ease. I really love putting this content out into the world because I know it does so much good. So if you need help, I'm your person."

📸: Eliza and Husband Scott

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