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Self-compassion provides you with a tool to authentically develop your ability to manage life’s difficulties, manage difficult emotions and increase self-acceptance and self-worth in a way that allows you to be caring and considerate towards both yourself and others.

Research has shown that those who are self-compassionate are more resilient, have increased wellbeing and recover from setbacks and disappointments with a renewed ability to persevere and try again.

Being able to manage our difficult emotions and thoughts plays a significant part in our overall mental health and wellbeing although many of us resort to harsh self-criticism and judgement.

Self-compassion is composed of four key components: mindfulness, which involves keeping your emotions and thoughts balanced, shared common humanity, which involves recognising that everyone experiences challenges, self-support which enables us develop the wisdom and courage to do what’s best for ourselves in any given moment and of course its important that we do all of this with a sense of kindness to self, the fourth component.

Key benefits

This session will discuss:

• What is compassion?
• How is developing self-compassion helpful?
• What are the myths surrounding self-compassion and exploring barriers.
• The three emotional regulation systems, keeping them in balance.
• Exploring how we can tame the inner critic and develop our compassionate voice.
• Experience a compassionate practice.

About the speaker

Rachel Wesley, CABA
Rachel's career started in human resources where she worked as an HR director for 2 of the top 10 firms of accountants in roles ranging from strategic HR, employee relations to management development and senior leadership coaching. Realising how important mental health was for society in general and organisations, Rachel decided to retrain and specialised in mental health qualifying as a mental health therapist in the NHS. She now runs a private practice in the North West specialising in psychological trauma and works for a variety of EAPs as well as running mental health and wellbeing workshops in both the public and private sectors. Rachel's corporate clients describe her style as "user friendly and pragmatic". Rachel practices mindfulness and compassionate mind therapy personally to maintain emotional resilience as well as running a charity that rescues St Bernards and provides pet therapy services to vulnerable people.

Costs

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