Do you find it easier to be kind to others than to yourself?
Compassion Journalling works from the inside out. Using two-pen dialogue, visual mapping, poetry and mindfulness, you’ll develop your own compassionate voice and build self-trust.
If you find it easier to be kind to others than to yourself, the abundant research (and my own lived experience) shows you are not alone. Drawing from Compassion Focused Therapy and Kristen Neff’s self-compassion research, the course offers creative and reflective tools to respond differently to underlying fears of self-criticism, complacency and other common barriers to self-compassion, gently challenging these internalised voices and ‘truths’ with curiosity, care, congruence and clarity.
Over four sessions you’ll begin to develop a different relationship with your inner critic, explore what drives your responses to yourself and others, and build a sustainable self-compassion practice that’s genuinely yours.
Each participant receives a 58-page companion guide, weekly trackers, and resources for ongoing practice.
Graduates are invited to continue deepening their practice through monthly Compassion Circles.
A structured course exploring self-compassion through creative writing, embodied practice, and psychological frameworks:
You'll Explore
Week 1 – Foundation and attuned listening
Week 2 – Developing your compassionate voice
Week 3 – Fierce compassion and self-nurture
Week 4 – Integration and sustaining practice
🔗 Full Course Outline (click to download)
What's Included
Four live sessions via Zoom
(link sent the day before the course begins)A 58-page Compassion Journal Companion to support your practice beyond the course
Between session chat for in-between session support
Invitation to monthly Compassion Circles for graduates
What Participants Say
"I came away feeling lighter and much more aware of the need for compassion to be present in my life – for me. I also loved writing the joint pantoum with our small and lovely group."
– Alexandra Harrington
"The way you listen and engage with us is so warm. You're very skilled at taking what we say, honouring our truth and adapting it to suit the rest of the group, while still honouring what each person said."
– Saskia
Upcoming online course Via Zoom, June 2nd–23rd June 2026,
Tuesdays , 7–9pm BST
Book your place→ Limited to 8 participants | £225
You can read more about what led to me developing Compassion Journalling and my other compassion building tools in Writing Myself Back.
There’s something important in the question of why kindness can feel easier to offer outward than inward.
This course seems to approach self-compassion not as sentimental positivity, but as a skill that has to be built through attention, language, and repeated practice.
I especially like the idea of developing a compassionate voice that genuinely becomes your own...
Highly recommend 🙌