Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program: A Guide for Professionals

The Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program is a powerful tool for coping with life challenges and enhancing emotional well-being, and this authoritative guide provides step-by-step instructions for facilitating each of the eight sessions and the accompanying full-day retreat. It also describes how to integrate self-compassion into psychotherapy and includes downloadable audio recordings of the guided meditations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 452 pages
Publication date: 03 September 2019
Publisher: Guilford Publications

The Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program is a comprehensive guide to coping with life challenges and enhancing emotional well-being. Co-developers Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff provide a thorough review of relevant theory and research, and describe the program's unique pedagogy. Readers are guided step-by-step through facilitating each of the eight sessions and the accompanying full-day retreat, with detailed vignettes illustrating how to teach the course's didactic and experiential content, engage with participants, manage group processes, and overcome common obstacles. The final section of the book describes how to integrate self-compassion into psychotherapy. Purchasers also get access to a companion website with downloadable audio recordings of the guided meditations. Note: This book is not intended to replace formal training for teaching the MSC program. Additionally, there are two related resources for MSC participants and general readers: The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook by Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer, and The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion by Christopher Germer.

Weight: 646g
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781462538898