This 2 hour workshop will include an overview of the MSC program and introduce you to a number of the MSC practices.

Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an empirically-supported 8-week course designed to cultivate the skill of self-compassion.

Most of us feel compassion when a close friend is struggling. What would it be like to receive the same caring attention from yourself when you needed it most? All that’s required is a shift in attention—recognizing that as a human being, you, too, are a worthy recipient of compassion.Self-compassion involves the capacity to comfort and soothe ourselves, and to motivate ourselves with encouragement, when we suffer, fail, or feel inadequate. Self-compassion is learned in part by connecting with our innate compassion for others, and self-compassion also helps to grow and sustain our compassion for others.

Burgeoning research shows that self-compassion is strongly associated with emotional wellbeing, coping with life challenges, lower levels of anxiety and depression, healthy habits such as diet and exercise, and more satisfying personal relationships. It is an inner strength that enables us to be more fully human—to acknowledge our shortcomings, learn from them, and make necessary changes with an attitude of kindness and self-respect.

Self-compassion can be learned by anyone.

Fee: No charge. Registration required in order to reserve your seat.

Facilitators:

Eileen Beltzner SCC BA MSW RSW

Eileen is both a Registered Social Worker and a Special Care Counsellor with over 40 years of clinical experience in both hospital and community settings. She is an author and a published researcher. She is recognized as a “Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher” through the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Center for Mindfulness. Eileen connects monthly with CMSC's Mindful Self-Compassion teachers around the world for peer supervision and is also an active member of the CMSC's Professional Caregivers Group. This group's aim is to introduce Mindful Self-Compassion practices to professional caregivers around the world and to work towards practical ways to accomplish this goal. Eileen is on the Faculty of the Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto, Ontario.

Rainer Beltzner FCPA FCA FCMC ICD.D

Rainer is a Certified Mindful Self Compassion Teacher and Certified Mindfulness Teacher. Rainer received his MSC training from Kristen Neff and Christopher Germer (the founders of the MSC program), as well as Steve Hickman, the executive director of the CMSC.

Rainer has been teaching the 8-week in person MSC program since 2014 and in 2016 joined the Faculty of the Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto where he co-teaches the 8-week as well as 5-day intensive MSC programs with his spouse Eileen, also a Certified MSC Teacher. Rainer has been developing and presenting post secondary and executive level courses to business professionals since 1972. He is keenly interested in promoting the benefits of the MSC program for men and has been collaborating with a special interest group within the Center for MSC to deliver and promote this. He recently participated in the Ultimate Courage workshop, a self-compassion training program for men and is now looking forward to facilitating the “for men only” Live On-Line MSC (LOMSC) program. Rainer also participates as a mentor for individuals from around the globe experiencing the Sounds True “Power of Self-Compassion” online course.

Rainer came to the MSC journey as a result of personal experience and is focused on spreading the MSC experience to others around the world.

For more information about MSC, go to www.selfcompassionsolutions.com