FOR YOUR PRACTICE
The person behind the practice matters.
Experiential learning for therapists, educators and other helping professionals exploring how attention, embodiment, relationship and their own patterns shape the way they teach, support and care for others.
THE WORK IS RELATIONAL
How we are is as important as what we do.
Helping work asks more of us than knowledge or technique. How we attend, respond to uncertainty, hold emotion and relate to our own reactions shape what becomes possible with the people we support.
Kindful creates space to explore that part of practice: not as another competency to master, but as an ongoing inquiry into presence, relationship, embodiment and the patterns we carry into our work.
WAYS TO LEARN
Learning that includes the learner.
COURSE
Compassion in Personal and Professional Practice
An experiential online training exploring compassion, embodiment, relationship and the ways our own patterns enter helping work.
RETREAT
SOMA 2027 — Embodied Compassion for Therapists
An immersive retreat for therapists and helping professionals, exploring embodied compassion as both personal practice and facilitated relational work.
WORKSHOP
Learning for teams and professional communities
Workshops and facilitated learning for educators, clinicians and other helping professionals wanting to explore relational practice together.
PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES
Something to take into your practice.
FREE CHAPTER
Self-compassion in clinical practice
Download Amy Finlay-Jones’ chapter from the Handbook of Self-Compassion, exploring how self-compassion can be understood and applied within therapeutic and helping relationships.
FROM IDEAS & INQUIRY
For the work of helping.
From the room
“Thank you for your workshop today. I found your synthesis of the various modalities of compassion-based therapy incredibly useful. I especially appreciated your engaging delivery of research findings and clinical examples.”
JENNIFER · WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT
STAY CONNECTED
Notes for the work.
Occasional writing, practices and invitations for therapists, educators and other helping professionals interested in the relational dimensions of their work.