I can offer you tools to improve your wellbeing with self-compassion, especially if negative stuff is crowding in

I’ve taught this course seventeen times so far. I love teaching it and I love seeing how participants really benefit from taking part. They’ve given a 92% satisfaction rating, 98% satisfaction for my teaching and 96% recommend the course as worth joining.

I’ll run my next online Mindful Self-compassion course for eight sessions during February and March on Monday evenings from 7pm to 9.30pm; we start on February 3rd and finish on March 24th.

If you want to register you can use the form below.

If you’d like to ask any questions or tell me anything, you can use the same form to arrange to meet me online to talk about what you need and how I can help. Or simply send me an email! An initial meeting is free and without obligation.

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This course was even better than I thought it would be and at an excellent price point. John is so caring and makes time to really listen to you. He guides the course beautifully and I particularly enjoy the meditations and poems John includes in every session. The MSC retreat at the end of the course was great as it gives you time to reflect on what you've learnt on the course and just be.

How does MSC work?

We all experience emotions, which can appear to be negative and overwhelming. Mindful Self Compassion doesn't try to fix this, instead it offers tools to acknowledge the negative and with self-compassion cultivate the gold.

Mindfulness practices

This will help you handle stress and difficult emotions, increase kindness and acceptance of yourself and others, and build well-being.

Programme

The eight week programme combines mindfulness, common humanity, and self-kindness, develops awareness of emotions and experiences, and offers practices for self-compassion, compassion for others, and better relationships.

In this course you’ll learn:

  • How to stop being so hard on yourself

  • How to transform difficult relationships, both old and new

  • How to handle difficult emotions with greater ease

  • How to become your own best teacher

  • How to motivate yourself with encouragement rather than criticism

  • Mindfulness and self-compassion practices for home and everyday life

Comments from course participants

  • “From the first introduction chat I had with John on zoom I had a very sure sense that I was in the right place at the right time for this journey. John's experience and warm, calm manner was evident immediately and the additional support offered during the eight weeks was way beyond and above anything I could have expected or hoped for. I am very grateful both to John and to the course.”

  • “This course was even better than I thought it would be and at an excellent price point. John is so caring and makes time to really listen to you. He guides the course beautifully and I particularly enjoy the meditations and poems John includes in every session. The MSC retreat at the end of the course was great as it gives you time to reflect on what you've learnt on the course and just be”.

  • “John was a fantastic teacher offering not just the well thought out and delivered lessons but also that extra help individually when things were more difficult”

  • “I took the course again because I was struggling during a very difficult period of my life. It gave me the tools to deal with difficult emotions and gave me some valuable peace and a safe space to explore and process everything that's been happening."

  • “Profound changes and my attitude to life... I have felt a significant 'shift' in my emotions, feeling, and wellbeing... I'm dealing with difficult emotions with ease and grace... an invaluable life-changing experience"... thanks for everything John, you are a rather wonderful man”

  • “I think everyone should choose to take this course. The re-framing from Self Critic to Self Compassion is life-changing”

Key takeaways

✓ Mindfulness

learning to notice what's happening and to be your own observer

✓ Self-Compassion

learning how to treat yourself with kindness, and from that grows kindness for others

✓ Common Humanity

learning that everyone struggles, which means you're not alone, and there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with you

Is MSC effective?

There’s a lot of research now that shows that a mindful and compassionate approach to life significantly improves wellbeing, healthy behaviour, personal responsibility and resilience, as well as decreased depression, anxiety and stress. Improvements are linked to how much a person practices mindfulness and self-compassion in their daily lives.

About the course

Mindful Self Compassion offers resources and the opportunity to take a fresh look at your life and learn many practices that will help you take care of yourself in a consciously kind way, and as a result have better relationships with those around you. It has its challenges, which is why it's great to do this with a group. It’s also online which means you don’t have to go anywhere.

To learn new skills takes time and practice; this is why the course is intensive, takes eight weeks at 2½ hours per session; there is some challenging material, and some wonderful practices to do together and to take away to use every day. I can support individuals between sessions to apply what the course teaches.

I’ll run my next eight-week online course on Monday or Tuesday evenings (7pm to 9.30pm) in February and March; there will also be an online retreat for half a day one weekend.

The current fee, that includes any individual sessions that might help, is £315, and I’ll be asking you to spend about £15 on a Workbook. I don't want money to be a problem and I'm happy to discuss, without judgement, whether a lower fee would work for you.

You can read more here.

Better still make a booking to have a call or video conversation.

Here’s a poem I love that’s especially relevant

The Guesthouse by Rumi

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honourably.
He/she may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

Interested?

If you’d like to join a course or learn more please fill this form to tell me who you are. Soon after the details arrive with me I’ll arrange to discuss your interest by phone or Zoom at a time that is convenient for us both. Thanks and good wishes.

Who teaches MSC?

My name is John Quill. I’ve done a lot of work on myself throughout my life, and I now know what I wish I’d known when I was a much younger man!

I’m in my 70s with many years of life experience and I believe I bring the energy of an Elder to my support for others, whatever their age. Supporting others in turn supports me because it gives me a sense of purpose and makes my (older) life worthwhile.

I’ve worked on myself and with other men with the Mankind Project, I’m a Trained Teacher of Mindfulness in schools and a Trained Teacher of Mindful Self-compassion. I’m a husband, a dad, a grandad and a step-dad. You can read more on the About me page.