Center for Mindful Self-Compassion

While co-teaching your first 8-week course, teachers-in-training must enroll in a series of five, individual or group consultation sessions with a specific Consultation Teacher. You will do all your Zoom Consultation sessions with the same Consultation Teacher and book these sessions with them individually. There could be up to 1-2 teachers-in-training per session, facilitated by the Consultation Teacher: a Teacher Trainer or Certified MSC Teacher. Unlike the Teacher Training and the TTP where you are in the same cohort throughout, attendees in the consultation sessions will vary week-to-week and you may hear from a variety of experiences and stages of teaching.

Duration/Format: Live Online – 5  Weeks

Cost: 

$500 USD for 5 sessions 

• 5 individual or group sessions, 45 minutes each booked with the Consultation Teacher
• Total contact time: 3.75 hours
• CEU credits are NOT available
• Consultation Teacher names and emails will be given after registration. Please reach out to the individual Consultation Teacher to book time slots that work best for you.
• Sessions should be booked alongside your teacher (1st before you class, 2nd between weeks 2-3, 3rd after week 5, 4th between 6-7, and 5th at the end of the course).
• You must use your zoom consultations in the year that your purchase them. 

We are not offering reduced rates on Zoom Consultation sessions this year, but please take advantage of the payment plans available through Klarna, Afterpay, Google Pay or Apple Pay that you will see on the checkout page if you feel the need. 

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Mentors for Consultations :

Ali Lambie

Ali Lambie lives in the UK and has an MSc in Teaching Mindfulness-Based Approaches from the University of Bangor. Prior to training as a mindfulness teacher she was a counsellor for many years and manager of a counselling service within the NHS for the last eight of those. She is a Certified Teacher and Teacher Trainer of MSC and this work is her passion. These days she is fully self-employed teaching MSC to general populations and in workplace settings. She also runs several ongoing monthly groups, residential retreats as well as 5-day MSC intensives and MSC teacher trainings. Ali enjoys supporting other teachers as a supervisor, MSC consultation host, Certification mentor, and often has newer teachers working alongside her too. She has a deep love of the countryside and part of her practice is mindful walking in the woods each day.

Ali’s availability is fairly flexible, but best times are often Monday afternoons, Thursday all day, Friday afternoons (GMT)

Zoe Shobbrook-Fisher

Zoe is a Certified MSC and mindfulness based interventions trainer, supervisor and teacher. She is an accredited self-compassion informed psychotherapist who has been delivering beginner and deeper-dive courses and retreats since 2009. Based in south-west London she specializes in trainings that are accessible and creative, reaching diverse populations in the workplace, community settings, mental health charities and the health service. A lifelong yoga and meditation practitioner she has always been dedicated to paths of the heart and authenticity, and loves sharing the ways that mindful self-compassion supports this for herself and others. She helped develop the teachers community MSC-UK and enjoys wild swimming, conscious dance and being near trees as much as possible.

Judith Soulsby

Previously a social worker and psychotherapist, I work in the UK and have been a teacher, trainer and supervisor of MBSR and MBCT since the early 2000s, with a Buddhist meditation practice since the mid 1970s.  I trained to teach MSC with Chris Germer and Kristin Neff in 2014, and became a Certified Teacher and Teacher Trainer in 2015.  I no longer work as an MSC Teacher Trainer, but continue to work as a Zoom Consultation Host which I've enjoyed doing since 2015.  I'm particularly interested in working with the challenges new teachers experience over embodiment, relationship, and self-care. 

Time zone: GMT (autumn to spring) or BST (spring to autumn)

Availability; Tuesday to Friday 12-6pm GMT/BST, and Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 6-10pm GMT/BST; I can also be flexible.

Helle Laursen

Helle lives in Denmark, and is in the Central European Timezone (CET). She is a senior MSC teacher, Teacher Trainer and Supervisor. Besides teaching the MSC program internationally, she has a special interest in caregiver fatigue.

Helle is fairly flexible; best times are typically all day Monday, Tuesday morning and Wednesday after noon. She lives in Central Europe Timezone. Please note these days and times will vary, feel free to reach out to Helle to ensure availability that works for you.

Christine Grace McMulkin

Christine lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is in the Eastern Time Zone (3 hours later than Pacific Time Zone). She is a certified, seasoned, and revered Mindful Self Compassion Teacher, a Mindful Self Compassion Teacher Trainer and a Self Compassion Focused Therapist. 

Christine delivers Mindful Self Compassion programs through the Center for Mindful Self Compassion, the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, within her role as a Mental Health and Wellbeing Counselor in a Medical Centre Family Health Team, and within Christine Grace and Community. 

The best days and times for scheduling sessions are Wednesday evenings, Thursdays and Saturday mornings. Please note that availability on these days and times will vary. Please reach out to Christine before your course starts to confirm a schedule that works for you both.

Megan Prager

Megan Prager is Co-Founder of Mindful Labs and Compassion Programs Director at University of California San Diego Center for Mindfulness.

 She is a Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Instructor (MBSR), a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Instructor (MSC), a Certified Compassion Cultivation Instructor (CCT), a Compassion for Couples Instructor (CFC), and a Dyad Instructor (FDP) with Humanize. Megan is a MSC Teacher Trainer and Mentor for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, a MBSR Teacher Trainer and Mentor for the UCSD Mindfulness Based Professional Training Institute, as well as specializes in developing and delivering trainings for business, educational, healthcare, and academic settings. Megan’s passion and great joy are the same: to empower individuals and institutions with the understanding that there is nothing more important individually or collectively than compassionate awareness and action.

In addition to teaching, these days you'll find Megan spending her time exploring the Pacific Northwest and chasing after her toddler, who is constantly keeping her on her toes!

Timezone: Megan is based in the Pacific Timezone

Availability: Megan has a flexible and varying schedule. Best days are typically Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, however with enough advance notice, possible other days can be accommodated. Please feel free to reach out to Megan to ensure availability that works for you

Noriko Morita Harth 

Noriko Morita Harth is a Certified MSC teacher, Certified MBSR teacher, and the Director of Training of UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. Noriko has been teaching MBSR and MSC since 2014. Additionally Noriko offers mentorships, Teacher Training programs, and practicum. 

Born in Japan, she moved to the States in 1985. Noriko feels that her life transforming journey of discovering and exploring mindfulness and compassion practices has allowed a more balanced life and identity between these two cultures. Noriko strongly believes practicing mindfulness and compassion, and bringing its principles into her life has and continues to help her grow as a person. She feels passionate about bringing these practices to other people's lives, especially to the BIPOC community. It is her mission to share what she has learned, what she continues to learn to our community. Noriko also offers courses and training programs in Japanese.

Time zone: Pacific Time

Availability: Flexible: Mondays-Thursdays, Pacific Time Zone

Jorge Armesto

Jorge is a bilingual clinical psychologist and certified yoga therapist in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, United States, where he serves culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Jorge is passionate about the intersection of psychology, mindfulness, spirituality, and somatic practices. Working from a Buddhist psychology and compassion-focused perspective, his work seeks to understand how multiple sources of oppression and resiliency intersect and inform the lived experiences of people. 

Jorge is a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher and trained MBCT teacher.  He is Senior Instructor at Cambridge Health Alliance Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, Mindfulness Instructor at the Mindfulness and Health Institute, and section faculty at the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy (IMP) certificate program. There are many ways that Jorge cultivates seeds of joy including cooking, dancing to the Afro-Cuban rhythms of salsa, hiking, weaving, and digital collaging.

Availability: Flexible Monday-Fridays, Eastern Standard Time Zone.

Lisa Baylis

Lisa Baylis has been sharing well-being strategies for the last 20 years. A natural-born connector with an innate ability to make people feel valued and heard, she is a teacher, a counsellor, a speaker, and a mother. Lisa is a published author of Self-Compassion for Educators as well as, the creator of the AWE Method — Awakening the Wellbeing for Educators — which merges self-care, mindfulness, and self-compassion.

Lisa has a master’s degree in Counselling Psychology and a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education. She has taught internationally and locally. Much of her vast teaching experience was gained in classrooms across British Columbia as a school counsellor. Currently, she is the Education Director for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, the non-profit organization created by Drs. Kristin Neff and Chris Germer to spread self-compassion around the world.

Availability: Mon - Thurs, 1-3pm Pacific Time and Tuesday evening 6-8pm Pacific Time. 

David Fredrickson

David lives in San Francisco, California, and is a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher, author, and psychotherapist. During his clinical career, he learned from and worked with traumatized children and families, the LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS communities. In the midst of his own health challenges and caregiver fatigue, he discovered MSC as a pathway back to his own caring heart. David teaches MSC because of the good news that we can awaken to the innate resources of mindfulness and self-compassion which can be both a guide and a balm for the places we hurt. He loves to walk alongside humans as they develop and teach these skills because these companioned walks tend to also bring him home (again and again). 

David has been described as a wizard in the kitchen, he loves nature especially when it involves water, and values playfulness as part of his inner work.

Availability: Flexible Thursdays and Fridays. Pacific Standard Time.

Carolina Bautista-Velez

Carolina Bautista-Velez is a Latinx social changer who believes in the power of individual and collective liberation. 

Through her work as a consultant, mindfulness teacher, facilitator and leadership coach, Carolina works with groups and organizations by co-creating spaces that foster, uplift and sustain systems of care, healing and well-being. Her work is rooted in healing justice, popular education and trauma informed practices. 

Carolina is a Certified MSC Teacher, Qualified MBSR Teacher, MMTCP Certified Mindfulness Teacher and MMT certified Mindfulness Mentor. She is the founder of CVelez Consulting & Metamorphosis-Coaching. Carolina holds a degree in clinical psychology with a specialization in social psychology and psychoanalysis.

Availability: 

Tuesdays 7am to 12pm ET