Short Courses for Helping Professions

"Self-Care is not self-indulgent, it is self-preservation. It also does not happen only off-the-job. Self-care happens the moment you recognize your unmet needs and give yourself the permission to fulfil the needs whether it be a moment of pause, moving the body, and talking to yourself as you would to someone you love.”

– Carmen Teo

WHY THE NEED TO CARE FOR THE HELPING PROFESSIONS

As a healthcare worker, mental health professional, educator, or caregiver, you often face high levels of stress, emotional exhaustion, and burnout. The constant pressure to provide care and support can leave you feeling overwhelmed and struggling to care for yourself. Mindfulness, compassion, and self-compassion practices offer vital tools to address these challenges.

Mindfulness helps you stay present, cultivate a healthy relationship with stress and enhancing emotional resilience. By cultivating awareness, you can manage your reactions to stressful situations more effectively. Compassion practices foster empathy and connection, allowing you to provide care without feeling drained. Self-compassion is crucial, teaching you to treat yourself with the same kindness you offer others. This practice helps prevent burnout by encouraging self-care and emotional balance.

By integrating these practices into your daily routine, you can improve your well-being, increase job satisfaction, and sustain your vital role. Nurturing your own inner resources enables you to continue making a positive impact on the lives of those you serve while maintaining your own health and happiness.

We know that long working hours and the need to balance with other priorities in life often restrict you from attending classes for your self-care. We offer programs in various formats to make it accessible:

COURSE FORMAT

  • 4-week short courses

  • Half-day courses

  • Half-day Self-care retreats

The 4-week short course, usually held online and one hour maximum, provides convenience for you to attend at the comfort of your own home or office. This is the typical course outline:

Compassionate Self-Care: A Journey to Inner Resilience and Peace

  • Session 1: Foundations of Self-Care and Mindfulness

  • Session 2: Nurturing Self-Compassion

  • Session 3: Embracing Emotional Healing Through Embodiment

  • Session 4: Sustaining Mindfulness and Self-Care in Daily Life

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WHAT PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING

  • Thank you for all the efforts and dedication in guiding us to experience the wonders of applying self-compassion mindfully in our daily life. Through your structure way of teaching, the use of rich learning resources and your gentle guidance, a whole new world of new possibilities is revealed to us layer by layer. Every session we learnt how to employ different self-compassion techniques to attend to ourselves and also to different life situations. Self-compassion is indeed a powerful empowerment we can learn to bring stability to ourselves and also to help others. I am able to see how I can slowly build up my inner peace and stability via many of the mini practices we had learnt.

    — SEE YEONG, Social Worker