Category: Courses

Tumultuous headlines, health, and financial insecurity, isolation, family tensions… all can leave us feeling agitated, nervous, just not ourselves. Join us for support in developing a daily meditation practice that’s appropriate for you (or fine-tuning it, if you have one already); cultivating basic mindfulness skills; and applying those skills to respond wisely to life’s challenges.…

Feeling trapped in the deep freeze, inside as well as outside? Does your heart sometimes seem to be two sizes too small? You can find the way back to the warmth inherent in every human heart. This course will help you cultivate genuine love and kindness for yourself and others. Students will get support for…

Take a weekly breather from the busyness of family life. Make room for the arising of fresh insight into what is (and isn’t) essential. Learn how to offer yourself and your loved ones the most precious gift of all: your true, full presence. Each student will get personalized support for developing a daily meditation practice…

Are you a caregiver of someone with dementia? Mindfulness-based dementia care (MBDC) is an 8-week program to help you meet your own needs and lower your stress while caring for your loved one. Meeting once a week for 2 hours, care partners learn to incorporate mindfulness practice into their every-day lives. Through a combination of…

A 4-week course that teaches basic mindfulness concepts and core skills, with lots of opportunities to practice and for Q-and-A about one’s experience. We will emphasize cultivating mindfulness through meditation and more informally, utilizing our senses to bring our attention back to the vastness of this present moment.

An 8-week group psychotherapy session for those aged 60 and over which is focused on using mindfulness to work on forgiveness of self and others.  We learn to cultivate mindfulness, self-compassion, and insight about forgiveness in a very supportive environment.  Studies have shown that forgiveness can enhance our health and well-being.  The sessions are covered…

In this new and abridged course, The 6-week Short Course in Mindful Self-Compassion (SC-MSC), you will learn the skills we all need to meet life’s challenges with more wisdom and kindness. The Short Course includes MSC’s key informal practices, as well as ways to experience more self-compassion in daily life. SC-MSC was developed by MSC’s…

The 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion course is designed to help us look more deeply at self-compassion and develop skills to work with difficult emotions. The inner critic’s voice can often rob us of our self-confidence and inner peace. Participants learn to respond to difficult moments with kindness, understanding, and self-care. This powerful tool helps us develop emotional…