Center for Mindful Self-Compassion

People in crisis are highly motivated to take risks and changes in their lives to cope and feel better again. Experience shows that crisis follows general principles, no matter what crisis it is: the circle of biological stress reactions mostly causing depression, anxiety and social withdrawing. Based on these principles, it is possible that depending on personal varieties, one or more of these symptoms and/or diseases may develop. 

Compassion and self-compassion are crucial qualities and traits to turn around depression and withdrawal, to reconnect with our state of common humanity and our seeking for attachment. In relationships, just in moments of stress and crisis can highly foster and augment these effects and deepen understanding and compassion for oneself and others. Thus, it turns out that symptoms decrease, emotions restabilize and increased courage for conflict resolution and to change habitudes and situations. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Learn about the process and the contents of the MIRAKI therapy program and understand it's design. Understand for whom it is practicable and for whom probably not in this way. 
• First study results in evaluating the program. 
• Understand principles and consequences of crisis and its chances. 
• Developing an impression of the ideas of salutogenesis and self-healing as general therapeutic perspectives; seeing and experiencing compassion and self-compassion as crucial factor 
• Experience examples of meditation practices and exercises not known from MSC 
• Understand the healing and self-healing potential of therapy groups and the importance of framing them carefully. 
• Discuss how you might integrate ideas from MIRAKI in your own therapeutic practice 

Compassion and resource-accentuated crisis intervention – steps out of the crisis - Learn about the short-term group therapy program 

*Original in German* 

MiRaKi-Schritte aus der Krise© - (Mitgefühls- und Ressourcen akzentuierte Krisenintervention (Compassion and resource accented crisis intervention)) 

Please join Margarete Malzer-Gertz, Specialist in psychotherapeutic medicine in private practice in Germany, certified MSC teacher and developer of MIRAKI, for a 3-hour online workshop including conversation, meditation, exercises, research and discussion. This concept of “general psychotherapy” helps people in crisis to mobilize their capacity for self-healing and activating resources, regardless of the diagnostic classification, with the means and the attitude of compassion, mindfulness and a systemic and salutogenetic perspective on a therapeutic and group process. The therapy program stands on the shoulders of a short-term clinical group program developed by Priv.Doz. Dr. Ursula Gast and her colleagues in a trauma clinic and on the MSC program where some important structures, thoughts and practices are adapted from. The program is framed by a systemic salutogenetic and solution focused perspective and process design.