Parent Circle
Come and share the challenges from your week in a warm and supportive space. Together, we will practice deep listening and explore the tools of mindfulness, Nonviolent Communication, and Mindful Self-Compassion. This is an opportunity to experience these practices in action and cultivate the qualities of presence, empathy, equanimity, and compassion.
You’re also welcome to come and celebrate the moments of ease and connection from your week. We’ll take time to savor these experiences and strengthen our awareness of the beauty already present in our lives.
Compassionate Inquiry
Compassionate Inquiry is a somatic approach in revealing unconscious patterns embedded in thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and beliefs. These are often formed early in life. However, they may still be influencing you in personal strategies that no longer serve you today.
Being able to connect to the felt-sense of your present body experience can support you in becoming aware of what is not conscious. This awareness is the beginning in accessing your innate wisdom and knowing your true self.
My offering of the Compassionate Inquiry approach can support you in connecting to the best version of yourself by:
- Becoming aware of unconscious patterns that are driving your life.
- Exploring a pathway to free yourself from limiting thoughts and beliefs.
- Cultivating awareness of sensations and emotions in the body.
- Re-parenting yourself through self-compassion.
Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens
Self-talk has a powerful impact on our wellbeing. Critical self-talk can lead to more suffering, increased stress and unhappiness. Kinder self-talk can lead to less suffering, more calm and contentment. The Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens program provides teens with tools to decrease volume of their inner critic and increase volume of their compassionate voice. Speaking to ourselves in a more compassionate way reduces stress; leading to a healthier attitude on life and on ourselves. Topics in this course include:
- Role of inner critic,
- Geting in touch with your compassionate voice,
- Why self-compassion is more reliable than self-esteem,
- The cost of social comparison,
- Exploring your core values,
- Power of gratitude.
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What folks are saying
MSC-T Teen Participant
“I’ve learned to appreciate more of what I have in my life.”
Vicky
“Marina has a quality of presence and offers the gift of empathetic listening throughout her sessions. She is attuned and knows how to create safety in a therapeutic conversation.“
Heather
“The best part about working with Marina is her kindness, willingness to explore, and the meditations she shared with me. I was able to add more tools to my toolkit. She is a true gem in self-understanding and self-love”