Join Diane Reibel, Ph.D. for a practice session hosted by Delaware Valley Insight and the Unitarian Society of Germantown. This will be a hybrid event, i.e. you can elect to attend either in-person, at the Summit Presbyterian Church, 6757 Greene St, Philadelphia, PA 19119, or online via Zoom. Diane will be at the Summit Presbyterian Church.
This program is appropriate for both new and experienced meditators — all are welcome.
Please add delawarevalleyinsight@gmail.com to your address book to ensure you receive any communications for the event. If you have any difficulties joining the zoom or registering for a DVI class, please reach out to the email above or call Fred Allemann @ (914) 312-7343.
Topic: The Healing Power of Self Compassion
With all of the higher education we have in our society, self-compassion is not something that most of us have learned. Yet self-compassion can be learned by anyone. Christopher Germer, who teaches and does research on compassion, speaks of self–compassion in this way: “It is a courageous mental attitude that stands up to harm, including the harm that we inflict on ourselves through self-judgment, self-harshness, and self-neglect.” Self-compassion opens our hearts, clarifies our thinking and offers mindful and resilient ways to engage with ourselves and others with care and respect.
Facilitator Bio
Dr. Reibel is the Director of the Myrna Brind Center for Mindfulness at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine at Jefferson Medical College. She co-founded the Mindfulness- Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program at Jefferson in 1996 has been teaching MBSR for over 25 years to patients, medical students, healthcare professionals, schoolteachers as well as to people living in long-term care facilities and homeless shelters.
In addition to her passion for teaching mindfulness she studies the physiologic effects and health outcomes of mindfulness training and her research is published and widely cited in both scientific journals and the popular press. Dr. Reibel is coauthor of the book Teaching Mindfulness: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators and co-editor of Resources for Teaching Mindfulness: An International Handbook.
NOTE: This event was originally scheduled for Saturday, November 4, 2023.