Christopher Germer
Presenter
Christopher Germer, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and part-time lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He codeveloped the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program—which has been taught to over 200,000 people worldwide—with Kristin Neff in 2010 and cowrote two books with her:The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program. Dr. Germer is also the author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion. He coedited two influential volumes on therapy, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy and Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy, and maintains a small psychotherapy practice in Massachusetts.
Learn more about this presenter’s work:
Tools for Practicing Self-Compassion
Resources
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Why Self-Compassion Matters, and How It Can Change Your Life
Sometimes we need to comfort and soothe ourselves for how hard it is to be a human being before we can relate to our lives in a more mindful way. Here's how to start.
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7 Random Acts of Kindness to Offer Yourself and Others
A commitment to kindness can be the thread that twines throughout our various successes, disappointments, delights, and traumas, giving us ballast in a world of change, says Sharon Salzberg.
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