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We offer transformative courses and tools to help you grow, thrive, and meet life’s challenges with kindness - grounded in science, drive by compassion.

07/10/2026

Remember that you are also one of the things you need to care for; otherwise, your care is incomplete.

03/10/2026

What do you need today to feel rested, energized, cared for before the new week starts? 🤗

30/09/2026

What if being hard on yourself isn’t actually what keeps you motivated?

For many healthcare professionals, self-criticism can become intertwined with high standards: Try harder. Do better. Don’t make mistakes. When the work carries real responsibility, easing that pressure can almost feel risky.

But research summarized by Christopher Germer Christopher Germer, PhD and Kristin Neff Dr. Kristin Neff suggests that self-compassion doesn’t mean lowering your standards. It has been associated with less maladaptive perfectionism and fear of failure, and with a greater willingness to try again after failure.

Perhaps we don’t need to choose between caring deeply about what we do and treating ourselves with compassion while doing it.

This January, we’ll explore what that can look like in the realities of healthcare during our 5-Day Mindful Self-Compassion Intensive for Healthcare Professionals: practical ways to work with the inner critic, respond to stress and difficult emotions, and build a more sustainable way of caring for others and yourself.

🌿 January 10–15, 2027
🌊 Reunion Wellness Resort, Costa Rica
👩‍⚕️ Sarah-Anne Schumann, MD & Mila de Koning
🩺 20 Live AAFP-prescribed credits
🐦 Early bird pricing until October 30

What might change if encouragement, rather than criticism, became one of the ways you motivated yourself?

Learn more and reserve your spot through the link in our bio.

27/09/2026

Three weeks ago, our founder Mila de Koning returned from Ukraine without many words for what she had experienced.

Now, one reflection has stayed with her:
Self-compassion is not a luxury.

In Lviv, Mila trained healthcare professionals who had travelled from across Ukraine. People who continue to work, care for others, make plans, and live ordinary lives while carrying grief, anxiety, anger and uncertainty.

What she witnessed was not self-compassion as an escape from what is difficult.

It was self-compassion as a way of staying with yourself through it.

To feel grief without being consumed by it.
To acknowledge anger without losing your capacity for connection.
To care for yourself while continuing to care deeply about the world around you.

It takes tenderness. And it takes courage.

That is fierce self-compassion in action.

This October, Mila will join Chris Germer, co-founder of the Mindful Self-Compassion program, for a 5-Day MSC Intensive in the Netherlands.

Five dedicated days to step away from everyday demands and explore how mindfulness and self-compassion can support us when life becomes difficult.

🌿 13–18 October 2026
📍 Elspeet, The Netherlands
🧡 Chris Germer & Mila de Koning

Learn more and register through the link in our bio.

24/09/2026

Self-compassion becomes easier to access when we practise it, especially when we don’t have to practise alone. 🌿

Our free weekly sessions are a space to step out of the rush for a moment and come back to yourself. Each session is guided by one of our certified teachers and includes mindful self-compassion practices, reflection, and space to simply notice what you need.

You don’t need any previous experience. You don’t need to be good at meditation. And you don’t need to arrive feeling calm.

Just come as you are. 🧡

Our October sessions:

🌿 October 5 | 10:00 CET | Claire Lock
🌿 October 15 | 19:00 CET | Gizem Aktaş
🌿 October 27 | 19:00 CET | Daria Steketee

The sessions are free and open to everyone, with an optional contribution for those who are able to support our work.

Maybe one hour of your week can simply be a space where nothing is expected from you.

Reserve your spot through the link in our bio.

20/09/2026

The way we speak to ourselves matters.

Many of us have spent years believing that criticism keeps us motivated. That being hard on ourselves will stop us from making mistakes, falling behind, or becoming complacent.

But self-compassion invites a different kind of inner conversation.

“I should have done more” can become “I did the best I could with what I had.”

“Why am I always behind?” can become “I’m allowed to move at my own pace.”

And sometimes the shift doesn’t need to sound perfectly positive. It simply needs to feel a little more understanding, a little less punishing.

This is something we don’t just talk about in Mindful Self-Compassion. We practise it.

This October, join Chris Germer, co-founder of the Mindful Self-Compassion program, and Mila de Koning for five immersive days in the Netherlands to explore what it means to relate to yourself differently.

🌿 5-Day Mindful Self-Compassion Intensive
📅 13–18 October 2026
📍 Elspeet, The Netherlands
🧡 Chris Germer & Mila de Koning

Five days to step away from everyday demands and give your practice your full attention.

What might change if the voice you heard most often became a voice you could rely on?

Learn more and register through the link in our bio.

17/09/2026

Healthcare burnout is often discussed as if the solution were simply to become more resilient.

But healthcare professionals are working within systems shaped by staffing shortages, heavy workloads, administrative demands and limited control. Those conditions need organizational solutions.

There is another part of the experience that deserves attention too.

The emotional weight of caring.

Repeated exposure to suffering. Difficult decisions. Moral distress. Grief. The responsibility you feel for your patients. And sometimes, the critical voice waiting at the end of the day telling you that you should have done more. The article identifies this emotional strain and compassion fatigue as one of the recurring contributors to healthcare burnout.

Mindful Self-Compassion doesn’t fix understaffing or change an impossible workload.

It offers skills for caring for the person who has to meet those realities every day: you.

From January 10–15, healthcare professionals from around the world will gather at Reunion Wellness Resort in Costa Rica for five days of Mindful Self-Compassion with Sarah-Anne Schumann, MD and Mila de Koning.

Five days to step outside the usual demands, work with the inner critic, meet difficult emotions differently, reconnect with what matters to you and practise offering yourself some of the care you give so readily to others.

🌿 January 10–15, 2027 | Costa Rica
🩺 20 Live AAFP Prescribed credits*
🐦 Early bird pricing until October 1

You don’t need to care less. Maybe you need to be included in your own circle of care.

Reserve your early bird place through the link in our bio.

13/09/2026

Healthcare professionals are trained to notice what others need.

The patient who is frightened.
The family that needs reassurance.
The colleague who needs support.
The next decision that needs to be made.

But when so much of your attention is directed toward caring for others, it can become surprisingly easy to leave yourself out.

And simply pushing through isn’t always sustainable.

Mindful Self-Compassion offers another way to meet the realities of healthcare: not by caring less, lowering your standards, or stepping away from what matters to you, but by learning to offer yourself some of the same compassion you bring to the people you care for.

From January 10–15, 2027, Sarah-Anne Schumann, MD and Mila de Koning, Senior MSC Teacher, will lead a 5-Day Mindful Self-Compassion Intensive created specifically for healthcare professionals.

Over five days at Reunion Wellness Resort on Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast, you’ll explore practical, evidence-based ways to work with the inner critic, respond to stress, meet difficult emotions, reconnect with your professional values, and build a more sustainable relationship with caring.

Alongside healthcare colleagues from around the world, there will be space to practise, reflect, connect and, importantly, receive some care yourself.

🌿 January 10–15, 2027
🌊 Reunion Wellness Resort, Costa Rica
👩‍⚕️ Sarah-Anne Schumann, MD & Mila de Koning
🩺 20 Live AAFP Prescribed credits*
🐦 Early bird pricing until October 1

You spend so much of your life caring for others. What might five days of including yourself in that care make possible?

Reserve your early bird spot through the link in our bio.

05/09/2026

Felt inspired by math this time to remind you that caring for yourself doesn’t make you selfish, it actually increases your capacity to give more 🥰

02/09/2026

A small reminder for today: you don’t have to move at the pace the world seems to demand. 🧡

Rest. Slow down. Take your time. Your worth isn’t measured by how quickly you get there.

What might change if you allowed yourself to move at your own pace today?

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