About the HeartWorks Practice Circle
This online practice group is set up to support you in your ongoing mindfulness, self-compassion and radical self-wisdom practice. We’ll do practices from the Somatic Self-Compassion (SSC) program. All get-togethers are hosted by Kristy Arbon.
Format and Content
Each week we’ll do an arriving mediation, a check-in, a practice, and a debrief. Get-togethers will be one hour long. All are welcome! No prerequisites required.
Times
The practice group meets during weeks when Kristy is available. You can see when we meet next, in your local time, below:
Time converter at worldtimebuddy.com
You will need to sign up to attend a practice group get-together. If there are less than 3 people signed up for a particular get-together 24 hours before the get-together, I will likely have to cancel that get-together (sorry!).
Safety
HeartWorks Practice Circles are designed to support your self-compassion practice. In Practice Circles we are invited to share our challenges with practice in a collaborative way to support our wellbeing in daily life. While many of us have emotional wounds from childhood, Practice Circle is not resourced to directly focus on resolving past traumas. Rather, it is an opportunity to explore ways we are using mindfulness and self-compassion in our current daily life, and how we want to be using our self-compassion practice to support us. In reality, our past hurts arose in community, and can be healed by being in a supportive community, regardless of whether we specifically talk about our individual trauma stories. Group members are invited to keep their sharing to practice-related comments that we can all relate to and to save the details of individual conflict resolution work for individual sessions with a therapist, counsellor or teacher.
Please read the following articles to prepare for our time together online so that you are able to help hold space for yourself and for others:
- Sitting in our Window of Tolerance
- Navigating the Window of Tolerance: Titration During Emotional Adventures
Online Platform
We will meet online on a video conferencing platform called Zoom. If you have not used Zoom before, please click on the meeting link ahead of time as there is a small program that will need to download to your computer. Here are the details:
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/457602908
Or iPhone one-tap : US: +14086380968,,457602908# or +16468769923,,457602908#
Or Telephone: Dial US: +1 408 638 0968 or +1 646 876 9923
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=5bvzjBOL6tdq3HhCNZQ—HSbBNyH70xj
Meeting ID: 457 602 908
Generosity
The practice group is offered freely as a gift to the HeartWorks community. The HeartWorks community relies on the generosity of its members to sustain it. HeartWorks is a small business birthed by Kristy Arbon and supported by some amazing folks committed to sharing self-compassion work, with a deep wish for liberation and a desire to connect.
Please consider expressing your generosity through supporting HeartWorks financially here.
If you have any questions, please email kristy@heartworks.training. See you online!
