We run in-person and online workshops and retreats for the public and for organisations.

Self-Compassion In-person Workshop

Tuesday 16 April 2024, 7-9pm

Where: Cranleigh Arts Centre, 1 High St, Cranleigh GU6 8AS

Learn how to become your own strong, supportive, inner coach.

Discover how self-compassion is one of the most powerful ways to improve your resilience and wellbeing. 

Cost: £20 To book your place click on this link

About the workshop: Self-compassion is simply giving ourselves the same care and kindness that we would give to a good friend, who was having a difficult time. Yet very often we are kind to others, but treat ourselves very differently-we beat ourselves up or try to motivate ourselves with harsh self-criticism and end up feeling never good enough. 

This workshop will introduce you to ways in which you can become more self-compassionate in your daily life. 

There will be teaching, exercises, short meditations, discussion and a chance to ask questions.

You will learn

• To identify the three key components of self-compassion
• Techniques to increase self-compassion in everyday life
• How to motivate yourself with kindness rather than self-criticism
• The role of self-compassion in empathy fatigue
• The myths and misconceptions about self-compassion
• How to train further in self-compassion 

Claire Garthwaite has trained at Centre for Mindful Self Compassion, USA. She teaches self-compassion, based on the work of researcher Kristen Neff and psychotherapist, Chris Germer. She has taught  mindfulness based approaches for 9 years.

To book your place click on this link

Oasis retreat– a seasonal morning of mindful self-compassion practice

22nd May 2024 10am-12noon on zoom- £35 (concessions available)

Join us online for a morning of self-compassion practice with readings and poems to speak to your heart and to reflect the season. With 4 meet-ups each year timed for Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, these sessions of prolonged practice can provide a regular punctuation point in your calendar to deepen or re-engage with your practice – like a regular mini-retreat or oasis in the midst of daily life. Designed for people who have undertaken a mindful self-compassion course the meditations will be based around familiar practices from the 8-week programme. Run by mindfulness teachers Claire Garthwaite and Diana Thornton.

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