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4-8 weeks – amount paid less $175
2-4 weeks – amount paid less $300
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> 8 weeks – amount paid less $75
4-8 weeks – amount paid less $100
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Special Events (Multi Day Retreat)

(Hybrid: Online) Reclaiming who we are with self-compassion

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Caverly Morgan Visiting Teacher

Kristin Neff, PhD Visiting Teacher

  • Location Online
  • Experience Levels All
  • Date/Time Saturday, October 3, 2026
    9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PT

Refund and Event Policies

This event is the online version of a hybrid 2-day event which will take place both in-person and online. To register for the in-person version, please click here.
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Self-compassion helps us let go of identification with the belief that we’re not good enough. With its warm support, we learn to untangle from our negative thoughts and emotions and embrace our inherent wholeness.

Our unconscious conditioning – influenced by our family, genetics, and culture – often tells us we’re inadequate and need to be different to be happy. Compassion helps us remember who we truly are versus who we’ve been conditioned to be. It transforms our contracted and limited view of ourselves, opening to a larger, more connected and powerful sense of loving presence.

Research shows that self-compassion is strongly linked to psychological and physical health, but our conditioning works against being kind to ourselves. In this program, researcher Kristin Neff teams up with meditation teacher Caverly Morgan to explore self-compassion from a scientific and contemplative lens, so that we can respond to difficult moments with greater warmth and perspective.

Learning objectives:

  • Identify the three key components of self-compassion
  • Describe key research that supports the benefits of self-compassion
  • Explain how family, cultural and genetic conditioning inhibits self-compassion
  • Utilize short practices to increase self-compassion in everyday life
  • Apply compassion practices when needed to regulate difficult emotions
  • Explain how mindful presence supports self-compassion by promoting present-moment awareness and reducing emotional reactivity, allowing for a more compassionate response to suffering
  • Use contemplative techniques to transform identification with a limited self-view

Schedule:

Dates: Saturday, October 3 and Sunday, October 4, 2026
Time: 9am to 5pm PT

Schedule for Saturday, October 3, 2026
9:00am-12:15pm –  Introduction and Theory, 15 min break, Research and Practice
12:15pm-1:45pm  – Lunch
1:45pm-5:00pm  – Compassionate Motivation, 15 min break, Awareness and the Conditioned Mind

Schedule for Sunday, October 4, 2026
9:00am-12:15pm – Self-compassion and difficult emotions, 15 min break, Self-compassion and happiness
12:15pm-1:45pm  – Lunch
1:45pm-5:00pm – Self-compassion and Being, 15 min break, Key Learnings

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Continuing Education Units (CEs):

Psychologists: Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course offers 12.0 hours of credit.

California licensed MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, LCSWs: Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. 12.0 contact hours may be applied to your license renewal through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. For those licensed outside California, please check with your local licensing board to determine if APA accreditation meets their requirements.

Nurses: UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16351, for 14.4 contact hours.

Caverly Morgan Visiting Teacher

Caverly Morgan is a spiritual teacher, non-profit founder, speaker and writer who blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual approach. She is the author of The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together as well as A Kids Book About Mindfulness. Caverly is the founder of Peace in Schools, a nonprofit... Read more

Kristin Neff, PhD Visiting Teacher

Kristin Neff, PhD is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on self- compassion, being the first one to operationally define and measure the construct over a decade ago. In addition to her pioneering research into self-compassion, she has developed an eight- week program to teach self-compassion skills in daily life, co-created with... Read more

Pricing Options
Class Fee $395
Class Fee with CEs $495

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Our mission is to make all of our programs accessible. Every fee-based offering has a limited number of pay-what-you-can spots available to support members of marginalized groups (people of color, queer people, people with disabilities) and those in financial need (those for whom the cost to attend is not financially possible).

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