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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 3 Practice: Loving Kindness for a Loved One

with Christopher Germer, PhD

In this practice, we bring to mind a loved one who we feel natural kindness for, and then include ourselves in the circle of compassion as well. 

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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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  • Super helpful and on point with my practice of 27 years and emphasis on compassion. I have ALWAYS loved learning new concepts to weave into my sessions with patients with success, but compassion focused therapy has enhanced not only my personal self discovery journey, but more able to access and extend that for my patients which has shifted my orientation in treatment completely. I am especially interested in the relationship with neuroscience and emotions and compassion. Fabulous summit! Thank you all!!

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  • There are some clear gems here and I’m thrilled with the diversity here! My reason for signing on. Would love to see more Indigenous represented, a more naturally collective approach. All n’all, its amazing that we can share like this from all over the world. Much gratitude! from Western MA.

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  • Thank you for this practice. It moved me. Thanks also for your talk about shame. It made me think differentley about the themes arise in therapy.

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  • Thank you for the inspiration to use this with clients. I personally found it very difficult as I do not have one person in my life that I have an easy relationship with. Many people are feeling this level of fragmentation in society and perhaps being aware of this and inviting in a relationship with a spirit, such as someone that has died or a persons higher self may make the mediation more approachable for those that need it.

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  • It’s a powerful thing to be with so many from all over the world who also wish to practice with compassion for the good of all.

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  • This was so beautiful. One person in my life needed this. Getting the opportunity to do this was impactful for me. Focusing on them helps me with their journey.

    Thanks so much. We can give and feel without owning.

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  • Thank you so much for the beautiful meditation. May you and all beings know peace, love, joy and happiness

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  • Beautiful practice, especially in the context of how this transformed your own journey from shame to compassion for self.
    Confirms my own prayers and blessings over the world and myself.
    Will also be sharing with my precious family members.
    Deeply grateful for your work and your teachings.
    Thank you so much.

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  • This is the only way self-compassion became accessible to me and continues to be.
    I love the specific use of pronouns- May you and I, May we… thank you.

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  • Thank you for the wonderful mediation. Started my day right. May you continue to spread this compassion all over the world

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