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Day 1: Compassion in Therapy
Tara Brach, PhD, Kristin Neff, PhD and Christopher Germer, PhD: Opening Keynote: Fresh Insights and Practices to Support You in Bringing Compassion Into Therapy
Richard J. Davidson, PhD: The Neuroscience of Compassion
Christopher Germer, PhD: Day 1 Practice: The Self-Compassion Break
Day 2: The Compassionate Therapist
Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP and Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD: Live Keynote: The Quaking of America: An Embodied Approach to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning
Gaylon Ferguson, PhD: The Practice of “Sending and Taking”
Kristin Neff, PhD: Day 2 Practice: A ‘Fierce Self-Compassion’ Break
Galia Tyano Ronen: Day 2: Practice Through Poetry: Connecting to Nature
Day 3: Compassion in the Therapeutic Relationship
Russell Razzaque, MD: “Open Dialogue”: A Compassion-based Holistic Approach to Working with Mental Health Crises
Rhonda V. Magee, MA, JD: Mindfulness as a Support for Healing, Compassion, and Social Justice
Dennis Tirch, PhD and Laura Silberstein-Tirch, Psy.D: Integrating Compassion into Your Current Evidenced-Based Therapy Practice
Christopher Germer, PhD: Day 3 Practice: Loving Kindness for a Loved One
Galia Tyano Ronen: Day 3: Practice Through Poetry: Deep Listening
Day 4: Clinical Applications of Compassion
Rick Hanson, PhD: Learning to Learn from Positive Experiences: Helping Clients Get the Most out of Therapy
Norma Day-Vines, PhD: Strategies for Broaching Issues of Race, Ethnicity and Culture
Les Greenberg, PhD: Changing Emotion with Emotion: A Transtheoretical and Transdiagnostic Approach to Psychological Healing
Lorraine Hobbs, MA and Lisa Shetler: Mindful Self-Compassion with Teens in Psychotherapy
Kristin Neff, PhD: Day 4 Practice: Soles of the Feet
Galia Tyano Ronen: Day 4: Practice Through Poetry: Love and Acceptance
Day 5: More Clinical Applications of Compassion
Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Licia Sky and Christopher Germer, PhD: Live Keynote: New Embodied Approaches to Healing Trauma
Paul Gilbert, FBPsS, PhD, OBE: Working with Fears, Blocks, and Resistance to Compassion in Clients
Ron Siegel, PsyD: Mindfulness and Compassion in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety
Sue Johnson, PhD: The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
Dr. g (Claudelle R. Glasgow), PsyD: The Shaman Therapist: A Fresh Perspective on Psychotherapy and Healing
Zev Schuman-Olivier, MD: Mindfulness, Self-Compassion and Compassion in Addiction Treatment
Christopher Germer, PhD: Day 5 Practice: Chris Germer – The Compassionate U-Turn
Netanel Goldberg and Galia Tyano Ronen: A Musical Journey to Cultivate Inner and Outer Compassion
Post-Event
Kristin Neff, PhD: Tender and Fierce: Self-Compassion in Therapy
Eduardo Duran, PhD: Bringing Indigenous Wisdom into Psychotherapy
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Day 1 Practice: The Self-Compassion Break

with Christopher Germer, PhD

This practice offers a direct experience of the three main components of self-compassion—mindfulness, common humanity, and self-kindness—and can be done on the spot, in daily life, anytime you or your clients feel stress. 

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About the speakers

Christopher Germer, PhD

Chris Germer, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program with Kristin Neff in 2010 and they wrote two books, The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program. MSC has been taught to over 200,000 people worldwide. Dr. Germer is also the author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion; he co-edited two influential volumes on therapy, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, and Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy; and he maintains a small psychotherapy practice in Massachusetts, USA.

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  • Thankyou for this practice , sometimes someone from the outside is needed to bring the simplest of awareness that has a significant impact for change

  • Chris Germer’s discussion on shame has awakened a new sense of understanding and self-compassion within me. Thank you.

  • Really lovely short meditation. So hard to find the time these days to just give ourselves some kindness and compassion so it’s always lovely to do these types of meditations. Thanks.

  • Wonderful. very helpful to name the sensation and locate it and then to identify the emotion.

  • Thank you Chris Germer for self compassion break!
    I use it when I remember with soothing touch. May I be kind to myself.

  • This is a lovely practice. And will be useful to ponder and incorporate. (Perhaps there should be an acknowledgement of how anchored in RAIN the first part is.)

  • Thank you for the meaningful meditation. I plan to make use of this in my daily life during stress!

  • I am SO greatful for this meditation…ChrisGermer’s intelligent awareness is so beautifully delivered in gentle pacing of voice ..I’m left with such a peaceful feeling!!!….namaste”…..

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