As it’s so easy these days to feel isolated in our difficulties, having doorways to connect with a larger sense of belonging is incredibly helpful — and one such doorway is self-compassion. 

In this short video, Kristin Neff, PhD, offers a powerful teaching on how Self-Compassion is the opposite of the isolating experience of self-pity, in that it is ultimately about connection and framing our own challenges in light of the human experience. 

Join Kristin Neff Live This Saturday!

For those who’d like to learn more from Kristin Neff, we invite you to check out her Introduction to Self-Compassion live online workshop this Saturday, January 21, 2023, 9:00 am – 12:15 pm PT.

Through discussion and experiential exercises, you will gain practical skills to help bring self-compassion into your daily life. You will learn how to stop being so hard on yourself; handle difficult emotions with greater ease; and motivate yourself with kindness rather than criticism. This course is relevant for the general public as well as to practicing mental health professionals.

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Fierce Self-Compassion live online workshop, with Kristin Neff, PhD, Saturday, February 25, 2023, 9:00 am – 12:15 pm PT. This is especially recommended for those who attend this Saturday’s live online workshop, and would like to explore the fierce side of self-compassion. Learn more here >>

About Kristin Neff

Kristin Neff, PhD received her doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, studying moral development. She did two years of postdoctoral study at the University of Denver studying self-concept development. She is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.

During Kristin’s last year of graduate school she became interested in Buddhism and has been practicing meditation in the Insight Meditation tradition ever since. While doing her post-doctoral work she decided to conduct research on self-compassion – a central construct in Buddhist psychology and one that had not yet been examined empirically. Kristin is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, creating a scale to measure the construct over fifteen years ago. In addition to writing numerous academic articles and book chapters on the topic, she is author of the book Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, released by William Morrow.

In conjunction with her colleague Dr. Chris Germer, she has developed an empirically supported training program called Mindful Self-Compassion, which is taught by thousands of teachers worldwide. They co-authored The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook as well as Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program: A Guide for Professionals, both published by Guilford. She is also co-founder and board president of the nonprofit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion.