Fierce Self-Compassion
Fierce Self-Compassion
Harness Kind and Courageous Inner Strength to Speak Up, Claim Your Power and Thrive
Fierce Self-Compassion is a NEW groundbreaking 8-week program developed by Dr. Kristin Neff with support by Natalie Bell. This 8-wk course is now available to help us in these times of massive change and challenge. Learn concepts and practices from Dr. Neff’s latest book Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive in a supportive community.
8-week program, 2 1/2 hours each week, 20 hours total
What You’ll Learn
- Learn to protect, motivate and assert yourself with fierce compassion, not fear
- Learn skills to feel courageous and motivated, in times of challenge
- Handle difficult emotions with greater ease
- Write Your Own Inner Language of Fierce Support
- Build confidence to thrive in your life and work
- Maintain healthy habits such as exercise and self-care
What’s Included
- 20-hours of live training
- Limited participants for greater personal engagement
- Downloadable Audio files
- Practice Handouts
- Weekly Prompts and Support
This 8-week program will teach you how to access both the caring and fierce qualities of self compassion to lessen the power of your inner critic, build compassionate motivation, and overcome challenges with a fierce, loving, warrior heart.
Program activities include fierce self-compassion meditations, exploring yin and yang qualities, experiential exercises, group discussion, journaling and home practices.
Fierce Self-Compassion complements tender self-compassion so that your compassion is balanced and complete.
Why Fierce Self-Compassion?
“Fierce Self-Compassion” allows us to turn to the wide spectrum of possibility in self-compassion practice, a powerful arsenal of resources for protecting, providing and motivating ourselves when things fall apart or during the simple challenges of daily life. This is the beauty of self-compassion, a practice grounded in loving connection and expressed in bold compassionate action.
In the The Fierce Self-Compassion program:
- Use self-compassion to protect, support, and create meaningful change for yourself.
- Speak up, set limits, and hold your ground with kindness and self-respect
- Work with anger in healthier ways, instead of turning it inward as self-criticism or outward as blame
- Identify your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual needs, and respond to them wisely
- Let go of the belief that you “need” self-criticism to improve or stay motivated
- Find wholeness by integrating your fierce and tender sides, so strength and kindness work together
- Strengthen your ethical courage so you can act in line with your values, even when it’s uncomfortable
Includes 20 hours of participation, audio of practices and other written practice tools. Ask about payment plan or scholarships.
This program is has been created by Kristin Neff the pioneering researcher in the field of self-compassion (www.Self-Compassion.org) and the author of Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind; and Christopher Germer, a clinical psychologist who specializes in mindfulness and compassion-based psychotherapy (www.MindfulSelfCompassion.org) and the author of many books including A Mindful Path to Self-Compassion. Fierce Self Compassion is adapted from both MSC and the new work of Kristin Neff on Fierce Self-Compassion.
Learning Objectives
- Describe how the three key components of self-compassion manifest when protecting ourselves, providing for our needs, and motivating change
- Begin to recognize and transcend the blocks to drawing effective boundaries
- Learn to work with and harness your anger as a constructive support
- Identify personal needs and discuss how you can meet them with self-compassion
- Develop skills to motivate yourself with encouragement rather than criticism
- Understand how fierce self-compassion can be utilized for social change
Research on Self-compassion
Research has shown that self-compassion greatly enhances emotional well-being. It boosts happiness, reduces anxiety and depression, burnout, and can even help you stick to your diet and exercise routine. All that’s required is a shift in the direction of your attention—recognizing that as a human being, you, too, are a worthy recipient of compassion.
