Somatic Self-Compassion: checking in with the interoceptive experience, buckets of choice to create safeness, and individualised approaches to soothing.

Kristy Arbon is an experienced mindfulness and mindful self-compassion teacher and trainer. She has had a long association with Drs Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer, and was administrator for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. She has worked extensively with mindful self-compassion, teaching and training all around the world. And she has many other strings to her bow, not least developing over recent years her trauma informed and sensitive Somatic Self-Compassion program, which has been evaluated in a recent paper published just this year.

Time Stamps:

3.01 Tell us a bit about yourself, your work, your life.

5.24 Being introduced to Mindful Self-Compassion.

12.33 What do you notice about people's experience of "backdraft" when they first engage with self-compassion?

14.06 Individual differences in the experience of self-compassion.

30.07 Tell us more about Somatic Self-Compassion.

37.36 Checking in with interoceptive experiences in Somatic Self-Compassion is a learned skill.

42.48 The importance of choice in Somatic Self-Compassion to help create a sense of safeness.

45.34 The third phase of Somatic Self-Compassion is the soothing.

51.33 How can people engage with you and your work?

53.29 What are three tips you would offer others who are making their way on their own compassionate journey?

Websites:

https://kristyarbon.com/

https://centerformsc.org/

Publications:

Somatic Self-Compassion Training Reduces Perceived Stress, Internalized Shame, and Bodily Shame while Increasing Coping Self-efficacy and Self-compassion. http://www.lidsen.com/journals/icm/icm-06-01-011