Classes

Mindful Compassion Circle: Cultivating Inner Resources through Healing Connections

Facilitated by Dr. Karen Piering Abbott, our Mindful Compassion Circles focus on developing inner resources and resilience through mindful practices and compassionate connections. Through our sessions, we aim to safely foster healing and connection to self and each other, through empirically validated breathwork, body movement and deep, therapeutic, collaborative sharing of our internal experience (think process not content).

Registration is closed. If you are interested in joining a future Mindful Compassion Circle, please send us an email!

Circle Details

Where: In person, in the Shallowford Youth Center, walk halfway up the sidewalk and turn right into the glass doors.

Group Size: 6-12 individuals to foster a small group experience. Once the circle is formed and a 4-6 person minimum is met, the group will close to optimize group cohesion, trust, and sharing.

Note: An introductory phone call will be made by the facilitator upon sign-up. The aim of the call will be to introduce members to the facilitator, go over group norms and hopes of the participant, as well as process any questions.

Mindfulness Education

Journey with us on the path of presence, learning how to be in wise relationship to this moment, inwardly and outwardly, no matter what is happening.

Ancient contemplative wisdom intersects with modern Western neuroscience to reveal that, with practice, our brains can literally be “rewired” for resilience, joy, compassion, and embodied presence.

We offer experiential trainings grounded in evidence-based practices for health and healing of mind, body, heart, and soul. To learn of events and offerings, join our mailing list (subscribe below) or contact us at kstewart@shallowford.org to explore possibilities to meet the needs of your organization and to receive a scope of work and cost structure.

"The way to find the real world is not merely to measure

and observe what is outside us,

but to discover our own inner ground."

–Thomas Merton