Purpose of the Public Offering:  The purpose of these sessions, which are open to graduates of the SCHC program, is to offer the resource of mindful self-compassion as widely as possible. We hope that participants will use the practices of mindful self-compassion to support their own self-care at work and at home.

Please note that the session schedule is based on Pacific Time in the United States.  We will do our best to inform you when there is any change in the schedule.  You will only receive these notices if you have signed up. This also helps us to gauge the popularity of specific sessions. 

Teacher guidelines:  We want you to be aware that we have asked teachers to guide practices from the Self-Compassion for Healthcare Communities course (SCHC) and practices relating to self-compassion only.

EMPOWERED SELF-CARE AND EMOTIONAL SAFETY:  These sessions include participants from around the world.  Participants are responsible to manage their own self-care, just as they already do in their daily lives.  The essence of self-compassion is giving yourself permission to have (even just a little) of what you need right now. Since we have all have different needs which also change from day to day, we encourage every participant to monitor your own safety and comfort. Our community is a global community of people from different countries all over the world with different cultures and very different needs. When a session is not offering what you need at the moment or when it does not feel safe to you, please give yourself permission to do whatever is best for you. Please give yourself permission, without self blame, to close up compassionately, leave the meeting and give yourself what you need; for example by using the time for any other behavioral self compassionate activity such as having a nice cup of tea, taking a walk, reading, listening to music, writing, singing, and so on.