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Mindful Self-Compassion Workshops
for Professionals - Gold Coast
4.5-Day ( 25 CPD)
Cultivate emotional resources and teach your clients!
Sustain your practice, strengthen your impact!
The Mindful Self-Compassion for Professionals (MSC) is a didactic and experiential workshop presenting clinically validated interventions to enhance professional resilience, therapeutic effectiveness, and personal well-being. We learn from inside-out evidence-based strategies for self-care, managing professional stress, preventing emotional depletion, burnout and vicarious trauma, while providing effective strategies to help our clients work through self-criticism, shame, anxiety, depression, and trauma.
This workshop is CPD-approved by the Australian Psychological Society.
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Presented by Marie Bloomfield, Clinical Psychologist and Senior Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher, and Marianna Lolas, Clinical Psychologist and qualified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher.
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Mindful Self-Compassion Workshops for Professionals
4.5 Day (25 hours CPD)
Presented by Marie Bloomfield, Clinical Psychologist and Senior certified MSC teacher
and Marianna Lolas, Clinical Psychologist and qualified MSC teacher
Location : Broadbeach Surf Life Saving Club- Gold Coast
27 Broadbeach Blvd, Broadbeach, QLD
MSC for Professionals 4.5-Day (24 hours CPD)
Date: 20-24 July 2026
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Early Bird (20 June): $1,350.00
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Regular Price: $1,490.00
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APS members: $1,350.00
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APS student members: $1,200.00
Discounts are available if you have financial concerns.
Note
The 4.5-Day workshop meets one of the requirements for attending the Online Teacher Training: "Mindful Self-Compassion," for adults and "Making Friends with Yourself," for teenagers/young adults, presented by the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion
For more information or to register
Marie: marie@boomfieldpsychology.com.au
Marianna: kindness@bluewrenpsychology.com.au or
Register your interest at www.bluewrenpsychology.com.au
Why Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC)?
The MSC program is grounded in the pioneering research of two psychologists, Dr Kristin Neff and the clinical expertise of Dr Christopher Germer, providing an empirically supported didactic and experiential training that integrates mindfulness (awareness) and self-compassion (care, common humanity, strength, wisdom), powerful strategies for dealing with stress, burnout to build emotional resilience and better self-care.
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The benefits extend beyond personal well-being to enhance therapeutic competence and client outcomes. MSC is clinically effective and has a growing body of research supporting its benefits for Mental Health. It is associated with reductions in anxiety, depression and shame while increasing emotional resilience, happiness and life satisfaction. Studies have shown that it can be effective in clinical populations with lasting improvements.
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Research also demonstrates that self-compassionate therapists are better able to reduce burnout, increase job satisfaction, and deliver more effective treatment outcomes. The program teaches practical skills that can be applied in our own lives first, then integrated effectively into clinical work. We learn to respond to our own difficulties with understanding and acceptance, rather than harsh self-criticism, to reduce shame and promote self-reflection, learning and growth. We recognise that struggles are part of our shared human experience rather than signs of personal inadequacy. In addition, we learn to activate the nervous system's soothing response, so we can improve our capacity to manage intense emotions like grief, fear, anger, shame, and self-doubt.
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By cultivating compassion toward ourselves, we build emotional resources that enable us to have genuine compassion for our clients, prevent compassion fatigue, and deliver higher-quality care. We learn from the inside out: applying these strategies in our own lives enables us to teach them effectively to our clients for better therapeutic outcomes.
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MSC integrates seamlessly with other approaches, including CBT, CFT, Schema Therapy, DBT, ACT, EMDR, as well as other therapeutic modalities.
Who is it for?
This training welcomes both those new to self-compassion—including students and early career psychologists—as well as experienced professionals who wish to learn from the inside out by applying self-compassion to navigate their own challenges, so they can better teach these skills to clients for enhanced clinical outcomes. We invite therapists from diverse therapeutic approaches, including CBT, CFT, EMDR, Schema Therapy, and ACT, to integrate the mindful self-compassion toolkit into their repertoire. This course is targeting health professionals such as psychologists, social workers, counsellors, and medical practitioners who value integrating mindfulness and self-compassion into both their personal and professional lives.​ The workshop is CPD-approved by the Australian Psychological Society (APS).
Level of Learning: Beginner to Intermediate ​
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Continue Professional Development
A certificate of completion of 25 hours CPD will be provided as evidence of professional development training. ​This workshop satisfies is required to attend the Mindful Self-Compassion teacher training program organised by the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion.
This Workshop is CPD-approved by the Australian Psychological Society.
What to Expect?
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This in-person workshop is the complete empirically validated Mindful Self-Compassion course developed by Kristin Neff and Chris Germer. Each session consists of a blend of short talks, guided meditations, experiential exercises, journalling, and group discussions. The focus is on bringing kindness, care and support to ourselves in moments of struggle and pain using evidence-based tools in mindfulness and self-compassion to build resilience, reduce self-criticism, manage difficult emotions, promote positive motivation and improve relationships with daily home practice. The aim is to learn to soothe ourselves with warmth and understanding, not harsh judgment, and to gain practical strategies to support our mental health and overall well-being.
During the 4.5-day workshop, there will also be a half-day retreat to deepen your self-compassion practices.
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The goal is to directly experience and learn practices that evoke mindfulness and self-compassion from the inside out. The emphasis is on learning mindfulness and self-compassion to build emotional resources that can be used simply and quickly anywhere, which we can also teach our clients for improved therapeutic outcomes.
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You will be provided The Workbook for Self-Compassion by K.Neff and Chris Germer, as well as an additional 30-page guide booklet of Clinical Applications of Mindful Self-Compassion for Psychologists for ways to bring Mindful Self-Compassion into the therapy room for increasing therapeutic effectiveness.
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Sorry, the daily sessions will not be recorded.
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Learning Outcomes
​We will invite you to be active in your learning, adapting the strategies to your circumstances by integrating the formal and informal practices of mindfulness and self-compassion at a personal level in your daily life.
After participating in this course, you will be better able to:
1. Apply mindfulness and self-compassion skills in daily life to support emotional regulation and well-being.
2. Demonstrate compassionate motivation in place of self-criticism.
3. Integrate mindfulness and compassion practices to ease difficult emotions, relationships, burnout/fatigue, whilst supporting the promotion of positive emotions.
4. Cultivate intentional living through reflection on personal values, courage, and meaning.
5. Teach foundational mindfulness and self-compassion strategies to clients, students, or children in appropriate contexts. ​
Learn Mindful Self-Compassion
Cultivate compassion for yourself to transform how you care for others!
What Mindful Self-Compassion is not:
This course is not group therapy and does not replace individual psychotherapy. Mindful Self-Compassion is an educational group program to build emotional resources and is not a substitute for medical or psychological treatments.
Participants are encouraged to share their experiences on the path of learning mindful self-compassion which can be very healing. The emphasis of the training program is on skill-building to enhance emotional resources for more wellbeing, resilience and better relationships.
Reading
​Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook by Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer (2018)
This book will be provided to you when you attend the workshop.
Mindful Self-Compassion For Professionals
4.5-Day(25 hours CPD)
Date: 20-24 July
Location: Broadbeach Surf Life Saving Club - Gold Coast
27 Broadbeach Blvd, Broadbeach, QLD
Time
Start Monday, 20 July at 9:am till 5:00pm
On last day Friday 24 July finish at 1:00 pm
Cost
Early Bird (20 June): $1350.00
​ Regular: $1490.00
APS members: $1350.00
Student APS members: $1200.00​
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​ Discounts are available if you have financial concerns.
For more information or to register
Contact Marianna: kindness@bluewrenpsychology.com.au or
Register your interest at www.bluewrenpsychology.com.au
Note
The MSC workshop meets one of the requirements for attending the Online Teacher Training.
"Mindful Self-Compassion," for adults and "Making Friends with Yourself," for teenagers/young adults.​​
Cancellation Policy
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If you make the payment and cancel 30 days before the start of the course, you will be fully refunded minus the booking fee of $20.00.
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If you cancel 7 days prior to the course, you will be refunded 50% of your payment.
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Sorry, no refunds will be issued during the course.
Meet Your Presenters
Marie Bloomfield
Clinical Psychologist
Senior Certified MSC Teacher
B.Sc(Psych.), M.Clin. Psych(UNSW), MAPS(Coll.Clin.Psych.)
Clinical Psychologist and Senior Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher.
Marie (she/her) is an accomplished teacher in mindful self-compassion having presented over 50 workshops most of which were targeting health professionals since 2014. As a clinical psychologist, Marie has over 40 years of experience working in mental health, including public, academic and private sectors.
Marie initially a cognitive therapist but has been using Compassion-Focused Therapy and Mindful Self-Compassion in her clinical practice since 2011. She is a leader in teaching Mindfulness and Self-Compassion to health professionals in Australia.
She knows from personal and clinical experience that compassion changes and enhances lives.
Marianna Lolas
Clinical Psychologist
MSC Teacher
Grad.Dip. Psych., M.Clin. Psych., MAPS, FCCLP
Clinical Psychologist and Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher.
Marianna is a Clinical Psychologist with a passion for helping others, shaped by a rich and diverse career.
Her background spans corporate roles in consumer behaviour and strategy, clinical hypnotherapy, and a mastery of meditation and mindful self-compassion therapies.
Combining scientific knowledge with a compassionate, holistic approach, Marianna is devoted to empowering clients to find calm, contentment, and inner peace.
Her personal experiences, especially through challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic, reinforced the importance of self-compassion—a practice she shares as a certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher.