Deepen your understanding.

Expand your practice.

This course is based on research and clinical experience, exploring how mindfulness and compassion can awaken emotional wellbeing and psychological healing.

This 4-week course offers an evidence-based framework for addressing anxiety, depression, social anxiety, and forgiveness through mindfulness and compassion-based approaches.

Whether you’re a therapist, a client in therapy, or an experienced practitioner, this course is designed to support and deepen the healing process.

Who this course is for?

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    Therapists interested in integrating mindfulness and compassion tools into their clinical work

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    Clients in therapy who want to use these practices alongside existing treatment

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    Experienced practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of how mindfulness and compassion affect mental health

This course is not suitable for those entirely new to mindfulness or seeking general wellness content.

What you’ll explore

Week 1: Anxiety

Understand how mindfulness and compassion regulate the nervous system, reduce reactivity, and support long-term resilience from anxious states

Week 2: Depression

Explore the connection between mindfulness, self-worth, and resilience, with insights from MBCT and compassion-based approaches to treating low mood and rumination.

Week 4: Forgiveness

Discover how mindfulness and compassion can support the process of letting go—whether directed toward others, oneself, or life events—and why this process can be central to psychological wellbeing

Week 3: Social Anxiety

Learn how mindfulness supports emotional regulation and perspective-taking while reducing self-judgment, shame, and reactivity in social situations.

Course Features

  • 4 focused sessions with guided practices

  • Firmly grounded in evidence-based research

  • Integrative insights for therapists and active clients

  • Curated resources and reference materials for deeper exploration

  • Merging neuroscience with the experience of practice

What you'll gain

  • A clearer understanding of how mindfulness and compassion function as trans-diagnostic supports

  • New ways to integrate practice into the therapeutic process—professionally and personally

  • Tools to help explore difficult emotions without avoidance or overidentification

  • Refined language and structure for guiding clients (or yourself) through complex emotional terrain

Delivery Format

  • Four weekly sessions (live or on-demand)

  • Accompanying guided meditations

  • Reflective prompts and further reading

  • Optional access to ongoing courses in the series at a discounted rate

This course is part of, and supported by, the

Dallas Center for Mindfulness & Compassion (DCMC)

DCMC is a 501c3 nonprofit organization devoted to bringing the contemplative practices of mindfulness and compassion into our modern world.

All registrations will go through the DCMC website. Click the button below to be taken to the registration page.

Pricing and Access

This 4-week series is available as a complete course or on a session-by-session basis:

  • Full Course (4 Sessions): $200

    Gain access to all four sessions, including downloadable recordings after each one. Ideal for those ready to engage with the full journey and receive the greatest value.

  • Single Session Access: $50 suggested donation per session

    For those who prefer to attend just one or two sessions. We welcome individual participation at your pace.

Schedule & Format

Sessions will be held live via Zoom on Tuesday evenings at 6:30pm CST, on the following dates:

  • October 7th

  • October 14th

  • October 21st

  • October 28th

Each session will include a blend of guided meditation, instructional content, discussion, and time for reflection.

Session Recordings & Missed Sessions

All participants will receive access to the full session recordings—whether attending live or not.

  1. If you register for the full series and miss a session, you’ll still receive the full replay and resources for that session.

  2. Please note: No refunds are available for missed sessions.

This format is designed to give you flexibility and ongoing access to revisit the material in your own time.

FAQs

For Lay Participants

  • These courses assume that participants have some experience and training in mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness meditation is generally considered as a foundation for compassion exercises. It can provide mental and emotional steadiness, a greater capacity for insight, and an increased tolerance for difficult emotions.

  • Yes, each course can be taken separately. However, the interior workings of the mind are often interconnected in many ways. For instance, anxiety and depression are the most commonly co-diagnosed mental health conditions. Therefore, it would be helpful, if one is primarily interested anxiety, for example, to also take the class on depression. It can be very helpful to see a particular condition viewed from different angles.

  • No… but with these caveats. If you’ve experienced trauma, or severe symptoms in the past, this may not be the right environment for you at this time. The consideration is mental and emotional stability. Therefore, it is advisable to have some experience with mindfulness and compassion exercises: be true to yourself and go with your intuition.

  • These classes are designed for professionals as well as non-professionals. And yes, would probably be helpful for your therapist to have the same information you have in the sessions, but that would be up to your therapist.

  • Yes. Please see our registration page.

  • Yes. 10%

  • Yes. Each participant will have access to each class they register for and can access it, along with the transcript, for as long as they want. Please be aware that all the information from the classes, the audio and the transcripts, is copyrighted material. If you would like to use this material in some way, feel free to contact me to make arrangements. However, we honor the Fair Use guidelines of the US Copyright office. You can find that information here… https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/

  • Please see our sheet on the class structure that was sent with registration. If you didn’t receive it, please let me know and I will send.

  • Yes. We can compensate with access to the materials of that class or apply your registration to another class of your choice.

For Therapists and Other Professionals

  • Yes. There is an additional administrative fee of $7 for each CEU certificate

  • Yes, but, it would be good to refer to the Fair Use guidelines of the US Copyright office. You can find that information here… https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/ Also, be advised that there is a written works under way based on these materials.

  • The central determining factor is you’re client’s overall stability and their capacity for distress. tolerance. When a recollection is part of an exercise, it is emphasized that participants pick something mild or moderate. That is, on a scale of 1 to 10, nothing more than a 4 out of 1.

  • In one word: Practice. In order to be of best benefit to our clients, we need to be further down the road in order to help bring them along. These practices cannot be employed in the  same manner that other frameworks can, such as CBT, or in a workbook style only.

    When  working with mindfulness and compassion with clients, we have to generate that space and invite them in. This is very similar to Carl Roger’s suggestion to create an atmosphere of unconditional positive regard for the client. We have to create the space of mindfulness and compassion for them first.

  • Yes, and no. The overall process is to present the exercises as designed, but then follow however the client responds to the process. Using meditation in particular, but also with the compassion exercises, the exercises can provide valuable diagnostic information as well as accurate data with which to measure progress.

  • Yes. Please contact me directly; I’d be happy to provide detailed information on these processes.