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with Karen Bluth, PhD
Ubiquitous social media use. Heightened academic and extracurricular demands. Uncertainty about the future. Increasing rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidality.
With the pressures teens face today, it’s more important than ever to equip them with tools to navigate intense emotions, self-criticism, and setbacks with resilience.
Self-compassion is critical to this project, and in Empowering Teens Through Self-Compassion you'll learn how to use it in your work with adolescents in a way that truly resonates.
Karen Bluth is the developer of Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens, the teen adaptation of Kristin Neff and Christoper Germer’s Mindful Self-Compassion program. Karen has also authored The Self-Compassion Workbook for Teens, The Self-Compassionate Teen, the Audible Original Self-Compassion for Teen Girls: A Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Coaches, and other titles.
In this course, you will learn tools from this program to lessen teens’ anxiety, depression, and even suicidality. You will walk away better equipped to:
Make self-compassion more accessible by using language that resonates with teens' lived experiences and incorporating embodied, experiential practices
Help teens recognize their inner critic, detach from social comparisons, and navigate setbacks
Explore teens’ values, providing a “north star” to guide self-compassionate action (so they know when to persevere because it’s worth it)
Connect more authentically with the adolescents you work with, get buy-in, and see them truly engage in the work
Practice self-compassion more effectively yourself so you can model it effectively and reduce your burnout
This 8 CE hour course takes place in weekly sessions on Thursday from 12 to 2 p.m. Eastern Time starting April 2. Participants from any time zone are welcome. Recordings will be available if you can’t make it live!