Mindful Compassionate Education Training Course

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Mindfulness, self-care and compassion are of particular value to anyone working with children and young people and therefore also caring for their development. They offer an effective antidote to stress, empathy fatigue, insecurity and the pressure to optimise.

The approach combines neuroscientific and evolutionary psychological principles of stress management and resilience, mindfulness and self-compassion as well as essential aspects of relationships and communication in these specific professional realities.

The course is experience-orientated and offers ample opportunities to learn and deepen a new attitude regarding our relationship with the work-related challenges. The content and applications of MCE are geared towards everyday life with children and young people, for example in dealing with demands and efforts in relationship work, with conflicts and boundaries, but also with cultivating positivity, joy and self-friendliness.

This course is for you...

if you find yourself regularly (emotionally) exhausted at the end of the working day.
if you find it difficult to distance yourself from work or from individual stories of young people you are working with.
if you find it increasingly difficult to empathize with the young people.
if you find yourself repeatedly being overly self-critical about your work performance.
if you feel like being in a hamster’s wheel (doing a lot with little result).

PROGRAM

The course methods include mindfulness-based practices.
You do NOT need to have any prior experience with mindfulness or meditation.
Nevertheless, it is helpful to be genuinely open to the potential of such practices. The practices in the Mindful Compassionate Education program do all come out of secular programs such as MBSR (Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction), MSC (Mindful Self- Compassion) or MCP (Mindful Compassionate Parenting).