Mindful Self-Compassion 5-Day Intensive, Toronto ON 2016

MINDFUL SELF-COMPASSION 5-DAY INTENSIVE Christopher Germer & Lynette Monteiro Toronto ON Canada MAY 30 - JUNE 3, 2016 Join us in the exciting city of Toronto for a week of practice in Mindful Self-Compassion. The Mindful Self-Compassion Intensive is offered as a five-day program and qualifies as the prerequisite for training as a Mindful Self-Compassion teacher. Please see the [...]

PTSD, Growth & Recovery: Bouncing Forward by Michaela Haas

Trauma and its sequelae are likely the greatest challenge we face as individuals who have experienced them and as healthcare professionals who try to help. For decades and generations, post-traumatic experiences have been misunderstood, mislabeled, and misrepresented. It wasn't that long ago when I found myself in a shouting match with a military medical healthcare [...]

Michael Stone workshop in Ottawa December 7-8, 2015

We are pleased to announce a collaborative venture with Leading Edge Seminars to present this workshop with Michael Stone. Note that you will receive a discount by indicating you are responding via the OMC links. Michael Stone is a psychotherapist and renowned lecturer on the integration of mindfulness and mental health. His previous presentation in Ottawa [...]

2015 M4 Teacher Training Graduates

We are proud to celebrate our 10th anniversary of Teacher Training and welcome our 2015 cohort of mindfulness teachers who completed the M4 training requirements in the first full 3-day training retreat. Congratulations to all and we look forward to an on-going sharing in your insights and great work! Many thanks as well to our [...]

I am not this body: Mindfulness for Pain Management

Pain is unavoidable. We inhabit a system that is engineered to become wonky, cranky, and otherwise uncooperative over time. We know this conceptually but not when and how it matters. Why me? What now? tend to be our responses when the body fails us - as it inevitably does. In case you think this is only a [...]