Instructor: Chris Germer, PhD
Location: Online Live Stream Event
Early Bird Cost: $125 CAD + GST/HST (if applicable) by March 15, 2026
Regular Cost: $149 CAD + GST/HST (if applicable) after March 15, 2026
**All prices are in CAD$. American Patrons - your dollar goes further! $1 CAD = $0.71 USD (as of Dec. 1, 2026 - check online for current exchange rate)
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 14, 2026 at 12pm ET
* For information about Group Rates and Discounts click here.
About the Presenter
Chris Germer, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and part-time lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He specializes in mindfulness and compassion-based interventions and maintains a small psychotherapy practice in Massachusetts. Dr. Germer is best known as the co-developer, with Kristin Neff, of the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program, established in 2010, which has since been taught to more than 250,000 people worldwide.
A longtime contributor to the integration of mindfulness and clinical practice, Dr. Germer is the author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion and co-author of three MSC-related books: The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook, Mindful Self-Compassion for Burnout, and Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program. He also co-edited two influential professional volumes, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy and Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy. In addition to his writing, he lectures and facilitates workshops internationally, supporting clinicians, educators, and practitioners in cultivating self-compassion as a foundation for emotional resilience and well-being.
Grounded in a belief that compassionate awareness can transform both personal suffering and therapeutic practice, Dr. Germer’s work emphasizes accessibility, authenticity, and the value of meeting human experience with kindness.
Workshop Description
For many clinicians, the value of self-compassion is clear - yet helping clients access genuine compassion for themselves can be surprisingly difficult. Self-criticism, shame, and trauma often interrupt a client’s ability to relate to themselves with warmth, making therapeutic progress slower and more painful than it needs to be. This workshop addresses that gap by offering a practical and research-informed roadmap for bringing self-compassion more explicitly and effectively into clinical work.
Drawing on the rapidly expanding evidence base - now over 7,000 published studies - Dr. Chris Germer will introduce Self-Compassion–Based Therapy as described in the new book Grounding Psychotherapy in Self-Compassion. Participants will explore the three core levels of integrating self-compassion into psychotherapy: cultivating a compassionate presence, strengthening a compassionate therapeutic relationship, and offering compassionate interventions. Throughout, Dr. Germer will highlight how self-compassion functions as a transdiagnostic and transtheoretical mechanism of change, with particular attention to applications in trauma and shame.
This workshop is designed to be both informative and experiential. Participants will engage in guided practices, observe demonstrations, and have opportunities for reflection and discussion. The goal is to help clinicians not only understand the model but begin to feel how self-compassion can shift their work - supporting both client transformation and clinician well-being.
You will learn how to:
- Describe the three components of self-compassion and why they matter in clinical work.
- Explain the three levels of integrating self-compassion into psychotherapy.
- Strengthen and maintain a grounded, compassionate therapeutic presence.
- Design effective home practices to help clients cultivate self-compassion between sessions and enhance therapeutic outcomes.
Who Should Attend:
Any helping professional who provides some form of counselling including (but not limited to), therapists, social workers, psychologists, and other mental health and/or health-care professionals.
You will receive:
- Login details and instructions emailed in advance of the workshop
- Downloadable handouts
- Certificate of attendance upon successful completion of a brief online quiz (if desired)
- Access to a recording of the workshop for a limited period of time after the workshop - so if you can’t join live, or need to miss part of the live workshop and want to view it afterwards, we’ve got you covered!
Can’t attend live? Register anyway to get 60-day access to the workshop recordings and materials after the course.
🎥 Meet Your Presenter!
Curious about what to expect from this workshop? In this short video, you'll get a preview of the presenter’s style, the tone of the session, and some of the powerful concepts we’ll explore together. Take a look!
For more information about Chris Germer and his work, visit www.chrisgermer.com
Integrating Self-Compassion into Therapy
with Chris Germer, PhD
ONLINE LIVE STREAM EVENT
April 16, 2026, 1:15 pm - 4:30 pm ET*
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Certificates of Attendance / CEU's / CE Information
For those requiring a Certificate of Attendance, certificates will be issued upon either:
1. Verification of 100% attendance during the live broadcast OR
2. Successful completion of a post-training quiz with a minimum score of 75% (multiple attempts allowed)*
*This option is for those who do not attend the full workshop “live”.
Certificates will indicate the number of direct education hours (3), not including breaks. Certificates may be used to qualify for eligibility for Continuing Education Credits from licensing boards and professional colleges; it is the participant’s responsibility to contact their college or association to confirm its requirements and the workshop's eligibility for CEU's / CE’s.
Cancellation Policy
An administrative fee of $50 will be charged for all cancellations. Cancellation 14 or more days prior to the workshop date – receive a refund, less $50 administration fee. Cancellation less than 14 days prior to the workshop date – receive a credit, less $50 administration fee, to be applied to a future workshop. No credit or refund will be issued if you do not notify us in advance of the workshop date. You may transfer your registration to another individual at no extra cost. In this case, please notify Mission: Empowerment of the name of the alternate person. The organizers reserve the right to cancel the event due to instructor illness, extreme weather, under-enrollment or other unforeseen circumstances. If a workshop is cancelled, any registration payment will be returned in full. Liability is limited to a refund of workshop/live-stream fees only.
Refunds will not be issued in cases where a registrant did not receive the workshop login instruction email due to email issues. It is the registrant’s responsibility to contact us if they don’t receive the required login information at least 24 hours prior to the start time of the workshop.
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