This ON-DEMAND workshop is hosted by Mission: Empowerment!, a seminar company based out of Ontario, Canada

Workshop Description

​Self-compassion is an important inner resource that increases resilience during challenging and difficult times. It involves the capacity to comfort and soothe ourselves, and to motivate ourselves with encouragement when we struggle, fail, or feel inadequate. Burgeoning research shows that self-compassion is strongly associated with emotional wellbeing, better coping, healthy habits, more satisfying relationships, and lower levels of anxiety and depression. Developing this resource is especially important now, as people are growing weary after months of dealing with changes, uncertainty and losses related to the pandemic.

Many helping professionals have been introduced to the concept of self-compassion, but they may not have been taught how to explicitly integrate this knowledge into clinical practice. Self-compassion can be integrated into clinical work by (1) how clinicians relate to themselves (compassionate presence), (2) how clinicians relate to their clients (compassionate relationship), and (3) how clients relate to themselves (home practice).

In addition to helping clients increase resilience, self-compassion is a powerful resource for clinicians. It enables clinicians to maintain emotional balance in the midst of challenging clinical work, to enjoy their work and their clients more fully, to be fully present and attuned with their clients, and to prevent caregiver fatigue.

This two-part interactive workshop will offer clinicians core skills and practices to cultivate self-compassion as a foundation for therapeutic relationships, self-care and to teach to clients.The science of relationship currently exists in fragmented bits and pieces all over the empirical map: biology, sociology, embryology, ethology, epigenetics, neuroscience, psychology, medicine, psychology, and so on. The irony is that we have never known more about the relational context required for parenting, teaching and treatment, and yet this knowledge is failing to inform our everyday practice and policy. According to Dr. Gordon Neufeld, a leader in the field of developmental psychology, this failure of implementation may stem from the current lack of theoretical coherence as well as the esoteric language typical to these fields of inquiry. Neufeld’s unique contribution is to put the puzzle pieces together to create a coherent model of attachment, using language that is accessible to all

Learning Objectives:

• Describe key principles for integrating self-compassion into clinical practice
• Identify unique challenges and opportunities for trauma survivors in compassion-based treatment
• Enhance the therapeutic relationship through compassion and self-compassion practices during the clinical hour
• Describe the neurobiology of empathic distress and apply self-compassion to alleviate empathy fatigue
• Identify the emotion of shame in psychotherapy and apply a positive, compassionate-based approach to working with shame
• Teach clients self-compassion techniques for home practice that emerge seamlessly from therapy and can be practiced at home

Who Should Attend?

Helping professionals who have already been introduced to the practice of mindful self-compassion and the research to support it**, either through attending one of Kristin Neff’s self-compassion workshops, attending a mindful self-compassion (MSC) group or training, or equivalent.

**If you have not taken training in mindful self-compassion but would still like to take this course, please email us and we can provide some suggestions of resources to get you caught up**

​You will receive:

• Access to the on-demand webinar for one year
• Downloadable handouts
• Certificate of attendance upon successful completion of a brief online quiz (if desired)

Certificates of Attendance / CEU’s / CE Information

For those requiring a Certificate of Attendance, certificates will be issued upon successful completion of a post-training quiz with a minimum score of 75% (multiple attempts allowed). Certificates will indicate the number of direct education hours (3), not including breaks. Certificates may be used to qualify for eligibility for Continuing Education Credits from licensing boards and professional colleges; it is the participant’s responsibility to contact their college or association to confirm its requirements and the workshop’s eligibility for CEU’s / CE’s. This workshop has been pre-approved for 3 continuing education hours by the CACCF.

Cancellation Policy

​​There are no refunds/credits for on-demand workshops as you have a full year to view the course. Refunds will not be issued in cases where a registrant did not receive the workshop login instruction email due to email issues. It is the registrant’s responsibility to contact us if they don’t receive the required login information in a timely manner (i.e. by end of day the next business day).