Held at the beautiful Elohee Retreat Center in Sautee, Georgia Making Friends with Yourself teacher training is designed to help teachers and professionals learn the skills to be able to teach Making Friends with Yourself to teens and young adults.  The training also includes how to advise parents in supporting their teens throughout the program.

Explore the beautiful city of Amsterdam while taking the Making Friends with Yourself teacher training. It is designed to help teachers and professionals learn the skills to be able to teach Making Friends with Yourself to teens and young adults.  The training also includes how to advise parents in supporting their teens throughout the program.

The first teacher training for Making Friends with Yourself was help at U.C. San Diego Center for Mindfulness in April 2016 with great success. This teacher training is designed to help teachers and professionals learn the skills to be able to teach Making Friends with Yourself to teens and young adults. 

The goal of this program is to help you gather insights and practical tools to help the teens you are working with turn towards the emotional ups and downs of this life stage with greater ease and help them learn how to meet these struggles with kindness and compassion.

This Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) 5-day course is an intensive training retreat version of an empirically-supported 8-week program designed to cultivate the skill of self-compassion. MSC teaches core principles and practices that enable participants to respond to difficult emotions with kindness and understanding.

MFY 2-day Core Skills is a fast track class to help you work with teens to practice self-compassion. This class was offered for the first time in December and was VERY well received! This two-day class is offered to professionals who work with teens and their families, and any interested parents.

Mindful self-compassion for parents cultivates emotional strength and resilience. Develop skills to care for your children while caring for yourself. Also suitable for therapists and other adults who work with youth. Research shows self-compassion is strongly associated with emotional well-being, more satisfying relationships, reduced anxiety and depression as well as healthy habits such as diet and exercise. Suitable for parents of any age child, the program will include information on coping when things go wrong and the developing teen brain.