Befriending Self with Mindful Self-Compassion 6 Week Course

To kick off 2026, we're teaming up with Gosnells Women's Collective to bring you the Short Course in Mindful Self-Compassion.
So, if you’d like to make friends with yourself, show up for yourself, and put yourself at the top of your To Do List in 2026, this is a great way to discover practices that will help you do just that.
On Saturday afternoons over six weeks, join us on this journey where we warmly explore the art, science, and practice of self-compassion. Together, we'll build self-confidence, nurture self-worth, and ease the stress of daily life.

Week 1: Discovering Self-Compassion
We’ll explore the circles of self-compassion: self-kindness instead of self-judgment, common humanity over isolation, and open presence versus over-identification.

Week 2: Practising Self-Compassion
We'll dive into how self-compassion and self-criticism affect us physically and learn gentle, mindful ways to soothe our nervous systems.

Week 3: Finding Your Compassionate Voice
This week, we'll uncover our inner compassionate voices. We'll see how self-criticism can protect yet limit us, and learn to motivate ourselves with kindness.

Week 4: Embracing Our Full Selves
We'll gently turn towards all our emotions, even the tough ones. Together, we'll learn to recognise, name, and safely soothe our feelings.

Week 5: Self-Compassion and Burnout
We'll explore sustainable self-care to prevent or heal burnout, and introduce a practice called “compassion and equanimity.”

Week 6: Making it Count
In our final week, we’ll reflect on and discuss our core values, crafting a personal core values list. We'll set intentions to continue nurturing self-compassion in our lives.

Please make sure to let us know you're coming so we can make sure we have space and resources for you.

This experience will be led by Befriend’s Community Enrichment Facilitator, Karen, who is a qualified teacher with the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion. This course is based on the Short Course in Mindful Self-Compassion created by Dr Kristin Neff and Chris Germer, founders of the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion in the US.