This course is for the person at work who finds it easier to be kind to others than to themselves: the conscientious colleague who keeps raising the bar, the one caught in patterns of overwork or guilt, and anyone in a helping or caring role who wants to sustain their capacity for the long run.
Self-compassion means treating yourself with the same kindness and care you would offer a good friend. It rests on three elements, mindfulness, common humanity and self-kindness, and it is not self-pity or letting yourself off the hook. It holds kindness and accountability together. Here you learn it in the body as well as in the head, through breath, touch, humming and kind words.
After a welcome, seven modules build on one another. Self-Compassion 101 teaches The Self-Compassion Break, the short practice you will reach for most when something goes wrong. The Embodiment of Self-Compassion shows how the threat, drive and soothing systems work. Working With the Inner Critic and Self-Judgment helps you meet the critic with curiosity, including Two Letters: From the Inner Critic, From the Compassionate Self. You take My Self-Compassion Scale at the start and again at the end, keep My Check-In and Practice Log as you go, and finish with My Personal Self-Compassion Plan.
On WorkSmart4Life this course sits under Sustain, the move about energy and recovery. If your team chose Mindset in Work Well Together, this course takes the self-compassion break you met there much further. I suggest you begin with the Welcome module and its scale, at your own pace; you can also try the whole course free for 24 hours.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, WorkSmart4Life