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Mindful Self-Compassion Online
8 weeks + 4 hours Retreat ( 24 CPD)
Navigate life's challenges with more ease!
Become your own best friend!
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Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Online is a wonderful training program that teaches powerful strategies to promote wisdom and resilience, as well as well-being and better relationships. Marianna Lolas, Clinical Psychologist and qualified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher, is offering this course online in the convenience of your own home.
Everyone is welcome! It is suitable for those new to mindfulness but is also a wonderful way to extend our experience of meditation and mindfulness. This Mindful Self-Compassion 8-week program is for everyone, including professionals who would like to feel more compassionate and resilient from the inside out. We all benefit by learning to befriend ourselves!
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Mindful Self-Compassion Online
Presented by Marianna Lolas
Clinical Psychologist and qualified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher
8 weeks + 1/2 day retreat(4hours) Total of 24 hours of CPD
Date & Time
Thursday 1 May -19 Jun 2025 ( 6.30 -9 pm )
+ Mindfulness Retreat Saturday 31 May 2025 (9:00am- 12:00pm) AEDT
Location : Online, via Zoom
Cost
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Super Early Bird (Pay by 28 Feb) $495.00
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Early Bird (Pay by March 31) $565.00
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Regular $595.00
Note: Tax deductible for professionals
Discounts are available for students or if you have financial concerns.
Note
This program meets one of the requirements for attending the Online Teacher Training,
"Mindful Self-Compassion," for adults and "Making Friends with Yourself," for teenagers/young adults.
For more information or to register
Contact Marianna: kindness@bluewrenpsychology.com.au or
Register your interest at www.bluewrenpsychology.com.au
Whhat is Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC)?
Mindful Self-Compassion is an empirically validated Mindful Self-Compassion program designed by Dr Kristin Neff and Dr Chris Germer. Mindful Self-Compassion teaches powerful tools for dealing with stress and to gain emotional resilience. Mindful Self-Compassion skills improve mental and physical health.
At times, when we experience difficulties, pain or failures, instead of criticising ourselves harshly, we learn to turn to ourselves with understanding and acceptance the way we would to a friend. We can meet ourselves with compassion like we would a dear friend. We can be care for ourselves the way we are caring towards those we love, no more, no less.
We know the power of kindness and compassion. We use it every day when we help and care for others. It contains what we all yearn: feelings of acceptance, comfort, kindness and love.
What happens when we turn this power onto ourselves? Mindful Self-compassion (MSC) is a brave new way to care for ourselves that is uplifting and empowering. The training program consists of easy, simple ways to soothe and calm us on the go, during times of stress to increase the ability to resolve challenges and enjoy life. Once we learn those skills for ourselves, we can teach them effectively to others. Everyone will benefit!
Who it is for?
This program is for you if you value and wish to integrate mindfulness and self-compassion into your life at home and in your workplace.
Mindful Self-Compassion has been very popular among professionals such as psychologists, social workers, counsellors, medical practitioners, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, teachers, yoga/mindfulness teachers, personal trainers, coaches, nurses, lawyers, managers, accountant and so on, who wish to integrate mindfulness and self-compassion in their personal life and in their work practices.
Beginners are welcome as well as others who may have a more regular practice in mindfulness or meditation. If you have attended other mindfulness-based programs such as MBSR or MBCT this course will help you to extend and deepen your practice in self-compassion.
The program is promoted on the Australian Psychologist Society(APS) on the calendar of events.
What to Expect?
This Online 8 weeks program is the complete Mindful Self-Compassion program designed by Kristin Neff and Chris Germer. It is an empirically-supported program since 2013. This course presents simple and quick tools that you can use in your busy life to increase the ability to attend to yourself, compassionately, whenever there is struggle or pain, to ease stress, to gain balance and resilience.
The program introduces 25 powerful, simple tools to soothe, to calm as well as strategies to promote emotional strength, resilience, flexibility, acceptance and positive motivation. Mindful Self-Compassion is about being present with connection and warmth during times of pain and struggles. We increase our ability to ease difficult emotions, care for others compassionately and be more fully ourselves in our roles. Mindful self-compassion has transformed many lives promoting our capacity for happiness.
The goal is to directly experience and learn practices that evoke mindfulness and self-compassion. The emphasis is on learning mindfulness and self-compassion to build emotional resources that can be used simply and quickly anywhere, anytime.
Learning Objectives
​We will invite you to be active in your learning, adapting the strategies to your circumstances by integrating the formal and informal practices of mindfulness and self-compassion at a personal level in your daily life.
After participating in this course, you will be more able to:
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Practice mindfulness and self-compassion in daily life
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Cultivate feelings of goodwill, kindness and warmth towards self and others
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Motivate yourself and others with encouragement rather than harsh self-criticism
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Deal with struggles with courage, acceptance and resilience
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Regulate difficult emotions with more ease
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Find the silver lining in your challenges
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Live life intentionally, imbued with core values for more meaning and satisfaction
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Become aware and able to attend skilfully to your needs and the needs of others
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Begin to transform difficult relationships
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Manage burnout, caregiver fatigue and vicarious trauma
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Practice the art of savouring, self-appreciation and gratitude
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Teach simple mindfulness and self-compassion practices to others
Learn Mindful Self-Compassion
Make your relationship with yourself,
your best relationships!
What Mindful Self-Compassion is not:
This course is not group therapy and does not replace individual psychotherapy. Mindful Self-Compassion is an educational group program to build emotional resources and is not a substitute for medical or psychological treatments.
Participants are encouraged to share their experiences on the path of learning mindful self-compassion which can be very healing. The emphasis of the training program is on skill-building to enhance emotional resources for more wellbeing, resilience and better relationships.
Reading (optional)
​It is recommended that participants acquire the following book while they are participating in the Mindful Self-Compassion program: Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook by Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer (2018)
Meet Your Presenter
Marianna Lolas
Clinical Psychologist
MSC Teacher
Grad.Dip. Psych., M.Clin. Psych., MAPS, FCCLP
Clinical Psychologist and Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher.
Marianna is a Clinical Psychologist with a passion for helping others, shaped by a rich and diverse career.
Her background spans corporate roles in consumer behaviour and strategy, clinical hypnotherapy, and a mastery of meditation and mindful self-compassion therapies.
Combining scientific knowledge with a compassionate, holistic approach, Marianna is devoted to empowering clients to find calm, contentment, and inner peace.
Her personal experiences, especially through challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic, reinforced the importance of self-compassion—a practice she now shares as a qualified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher.
Mindful Self-Compassion Online
8 weeks + 1/2 day retreat(4 hours)
Date
30 April- 18 June 2025
Location
Online on Zoom
Time
Wednesday 6:30pm -9:00pm
+ Mindfulness Retreat Saturday 31 May 2025 (9:00am- 12:00pm) AEDT
Cost
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Super Early Bird (Pay by 28 Feb) $495.00
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Early Bird (Pay by March 31) $565.00
-
Regular $595.00
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Tax deductible for professionals
​ Discounts are available for students or if you have financial concerns.
For more information or to register
Contact Marianna: kindness@bluewrenpsychology.com.au or
Register your interest at www.bluewrenpsychology.com.au
Note
This program meets one of the requirements for attending the Online Teacher Training,
"Mindful Self-Compassion," for adults and "Making Friends with Yourself," for teenagers/young adults.​​
Cancellation Policy
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If you make the payment and cancel 30 days before the start of the course, you will be fully refunded minus the booking fee of $20.00.
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If you cancel 7 days prior to the course, you will be refunded 50% of your payment.
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Sorry, no refunds will be issued during the course.