Compassion & Self Compassion Resources
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Some Free Resources of Support for Recovering from Pandemic Times
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Tara Brach Pandemic Care Resources provides many short, compassion focused meditations, and talks for the beginner and practiced student alike.
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Free Mindfulness Apps Worthy of Your Attention — Mindful
Recommendations and reviews of five free meditation apps.
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Mindfulness Daily — Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield / Sounds True
A free 40-day mindfulness course led by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. Each session is 15 minutes or less, and includes a short talk and guided meditation, as well as instructions for bringing your practice alive throughout the day.
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10 Days of Happiness — Action for Happiness
A free 10-day online coaching program which guides you through daily actions for happier living. “The Covid-19 pandemic brings big challenges for our mental health, whether you’re isolating at home or trying to live with the new restrictions. This program can help you cope and find a little more happiness in these difficult time
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Coronavirus Sanity Guide — Dan Harris / Ten Percent Happier
Daily live practice sessions w/ Q&A, plus podcasts, blog posts, meditations and talks.
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Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus — Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley
Practices, resources, and articles for individuals, parents, and educators facing COVID-19.
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COVID-19: Tools for Support, Compassion, and Mindfulness — The UCSD Center for Mindfulness, The Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion, and Compassion Institute
Daily live streams and recordings of mindfulness and compassion sessions and other online resources to support those affected.
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16 Compassion Focused Therapy Training Exercises and Worksheets
https://positivepsychology.com/compassion-focused-therapy-training-exercises-worksheets/
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Healthy Minds Program – Free Mindfulness App — Dr. Richard Davidson / Center for Healthy Minds
Neuroscience-backed meditation app / training program. By donation.
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Making Friends with Yourself: Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens www.centerformsc.org/msc-teens
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Free Yoga & Mindfulness Classes for Children & Teens — Yoga Ed.
Yoga Ed. is offering free access to a library of classes for teachers and parents to support the physical and mental health of their youth during school closures. All classes are streamable on any device and developmentally appropriate for children and teens.
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Free story & picture ebooks in multiple languages to talk to kids about COVID-19
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CDC Tip Sheet on how to talk to kids about Covid-19
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Compassion Focused Neuroscience & Practices
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Dr. Kristin Neff is a compassion focused pioneer who published her first paper on the subject in 2007. Now more than a thousand papers have followed. Her Self Compassion (SCC) as well as expansive research, meditations and publications are available here
http://self-compassion.org/the-research/
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Compassionate Mind Foundation
Dr Paul Gilbert, is the founder, psychologist and researcher who developed Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). Here his organization shares resources to support wellness through an understanding of the evolutionary biology of the human system and how it can be rewired
for well being through compassion.
https://www.compassionatemind.co.uk
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Dr. Christopher Germer
Expansive information on mindful self-compassion (MSC), guided meditations and materials
http://www.mindfulselfcompassion.org/
www.chrisgermer.com Loads of research & the MSC program.
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Dr Shauna Shapiro. Good Morning I love you. Mindfulness and self-compassion practices to rewired your brain for calm, clarity and joy.
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The Science of Well-Being. In this free course from Yale University, Dr Laura Santos provides specific strategies grounded in research to rewire your brain for well-being, while dispelling many of the myths that can lead to dis-ease. The research tells us that knowing what to do doesn't actually help us do better but 'effortful' actions make all the difference. Spoiler alert one of these actions is kindness.
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The Greater Good Science Centre www.greatergood.com Based at UC Berkeley, Greater Good reports on groundbreaking research into the roots of compassion, happiness, and altruism.
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Websites for the Clinical Application of Self Compassion
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Compassion Focused Therapy: www.compassionfocusedtherapy.com
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Internal Family Systems Therapy: www.selfleadership.org
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Compassion Power (for anger management): www.compassionpower.com
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Mindfulness-based symptom management: www.ottawamindfulnessclinic.com
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Social anxiety and mindfulness: www.shyness.com
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Mindfulness and recovery from child abuse: www.jimhopper.com/mindfulness
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Addictive Behaviors Research Center: depts.washington.edu/abrc/meditation.htm
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Center for Mindful Eating: www.tcme.org
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Acceptance and commitment therapy: www.contextualpsychology.org/act
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy: http://blogs.uw.edu/brtc/
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Research/cognition-emotion/researchtopics/mindfulness.shtml
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Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) . Much more than self compassion, but born from it.
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Quick Concept Resources
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Backdraft: Why Self Compassion can make you feel worse, and what you can do about it. Here Sarah Jarvis shares a simple explanation of ‘backdraft’ which is critical especially when dealing with a trauma population.
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Polyval Theory The New Science of Safety and Trauma by Seth Porges (son of neuroscience rockstar Dr. Stephen Porges). A fun, friendly 30 min video to demystify the complex neuroscience that rules the human body and brain.
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A brief intro to Professor of Psychology Carol Dweck's concept of Growth Mindset
Some Favourite Parenting & Social Emotional Learning Resources
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Dr. Gordon Neufeld Parenting through the pandemic With sensitivity and care Dr Neufeld unpacks the neuroscience and relational complexity of how trauma impacts attachment and the behavioural consequences to expect as adults and kids make their way in pandemic times. He offers specific clear strategies of what to do to combat stress, anxiety and the fear of disconnection.
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Lynn Lyons: Helping Anxious Kids & Families Manage Anxiety Disorders. Warm, insightful and a fabulous resource for families dealing with anxiety.
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Seth Perler.com an executive function and 2e coach who has piles of videos and resources with practical strategies, plans and free resources to support families working with neurodiversity
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Dr. Ross Greene's organization Lives in the Balance provides his Collaborative Proactive Solutions (CPS) and a wealth of free resources, research and support for raising, teaching or working with little fantastic and challenging humans.
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How to Raise Anti-Racist Kids, with Dr. Nzinga Harrison
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BCEdAccess Society is an entirely volunteer-run organization serving families of students with disabilities and complex learners all over the province of British Columbia. Great advocacy resources and peer support.
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A few Anti Racist and Decolonizing Supports
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Take Eddie Moore Jr's 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge
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EPL Decolonization Reading List
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Lu'ma Medical Centre, run by Lu'ma Native Housing Society provides comprehensive physical and mental health care to Indigenous People in Vancouver
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The KUU-US Crisis Line Society provides First Nations and Indigenous-specific support and can be reached toll-free 24/7 at 1-800-588-8717
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Indigenous Peoples face unique forms of discrimination and are under-represented in human rights complaints. This 3-part series of videos by BC Human Rights Clinic explains the BC Human Rights Code with regards to employment, tenancy (housing) and access to services, explores examples of discrimination and offers information about what you can do if you or someone you care about experiences discrimination.