Summer Retreat in Compassion:
A Compassion Retreat for Practice, Forgiveness, Connection and Gratitude

Date and Time: Saturday, June 2, 2018, 9:30 - 1:30 pm
Location: Cambridge Hospital Learning Center A/B  1493 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139

 Open to all with a mindfulness-based practice.  Lunch will be provided.
$75 Registration; 3 CE credits available for Social Workers, Psychologists and Nurses for $20

Re-connect with your own capacity for forgiveness and gratitude. Using skills and practices from the Mindful Self-Compassion program, this workshop will provide the opportunity for practice and guided activities reflecting on gratitude and forgiveness. This is an opportunity to take time to care for yourself with mindfulness and self-compassion! 

Mindfulness and compassion keep us in the present moment and open to meeting difficult emotions with kindness.  Self-compassion helps us open to the pain others may have caused us, as well as the regret we may feel for the pain we may have caused others.  

In this experiential workshop on forgiveness and gratitude, we will:
 Discuss the process to cultivate forgiveness in our own lives;
Practice self-compassion, loving-kindness, and mindfulness through guided meditations and exercises to create an intention to forgive ourselves and others; and 
Incorporate loving-kindness and gratitude as ways to support the development of an open and caring attitude of forgiveness.
 

Instructor Bios:  
Elyse Simon
Elyse Simon, MA, is a relational mindfulness and compassion practitioner and educator. She received her master’s in 2015 with a specialization in Integrative Health from the Interdisciplinary School at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has been teaching mindfulness-based treatment programs for oncology patients and practitioners since 2011. She is a Mindfulness instructor with the Pathways to Wellness research study at Dana-Farber in Boston, MA. She is a mind-body practitioner for the Y Organization and groups in healthcare, as well as a group leader for the PINK program for breast cancer survivors at Lahey Hospital Cancer Center. She became a trained instructor in 2010 at University of Massachusetts Medical School in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and completed Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Teacher Training in 2014. Her personal practices in Mindfulness began in 2001 and in Insight Dialogue and Compassion in 2011.

Cecilia Fernandez-Hall
Cecilia Fernandez-Hall, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist. She specializes in mindfulness-based treatment of anxiety and depression with adults. She is a coordinator and a teacher for the Circles of Practice, a weekly online video teleconference meditation practice group through the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. She also is a Mindfulness instructor with the Pathways to Wellness research study at Dana-Farber in Boston, MA. She received her doctoral degree from American University in Washington, DC. She earned a certificate in Mindfulness and Psychotherapy from the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy in 2013. She also completed the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Teacher
Training in 2014. In addition, she has practiced mindfulness meditation, with an emphasis on Mindful Self-Compassion, since 2010.

Need-Based Scholarship Applications Available. CHA Employees and patients, please contact us at cmc@challiance.org for more information about course discounts.

The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course meets the criteria for 4 continuing education credits.This program carries 4 contact hours and meets the specifications of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing (244 CMR 5.00). This program has been approved for 4 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. Collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and Simmons Schools of Social Work Authorization Number D-73651-2.