About our international training institute
Self-Compassion Academy is a professional international training institute dedicated to Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). We offer in-depth courses, advanced professional training, and teacher education within a global learning community.
About our international training institute
Self-Compassion Academy is a professional international training institute dedicated to Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). We offer in-depth courses, advanced professional training, and teacher education within a global learning community.
Evidence-based programs
Since 2014, we have partnered with the Center for Mindful Self- Compassion to deliver high-quality, evidence-based programs grounded in integrity, depth, and lived practice.
Our participants represent more than 40 countries worldwide. We are committed to maintaining professional standards while preserving the personal depth and relational quality that meaningful learning requires.
Our non-profit mission
As a non-profit organization, we are committed to access and inclusion. Our scholarship program prioritizes participants in communities affected by conflict or severe economic hardship, helping reduce barriers to high- quality MSC training.
Each year we allocate scholarships to participants who would otherwise not be able to join.
Our founding intention
Self-Compassion Academy was founded from a lived understanding of belonging. Growing up between cultures and identities, our founder experienced both exclusion and unexpected inclusion.
These experiences shaped a lasting awareness of how deeply human it is to long for belonging, to be seen, heard, and connected. This perspective informs the heart of our institute: self-compassion is not only an individual practice, but a relational and societal capacity.
In our international groups, participants often find that compassion becomes a shared language, creating real belonging across cultures, backgrounds, identities, professions, and life stories.
Building local capacity worldwide
Our work
We specialize in supporting organizations and teacher communities internationally to establish Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) courses and teacher training pathways locally.
Our aim is to build sustainable local capacity, culturally grounded, professionally rigorous, and aligned with the integrity of the MSC approach.
Our work includes especially communities affected by conflict, social transition, and economic instability.
Our approach
We intentionally work with senior MSC teachers who bring extensive teaching experience, long-standing personal practice, and international perspective.
Our groups are intentionally kept at a size that allows both personal connection and rich international diversity. This allows for careful guidance, professional rigor, and a learning environment in which participants are genuinely seen and supported.
We value equality, accessibility, and shared humanity. Across cultures and professions, our programs foster a tangible sense of common humanity and connection, not as an abstract idea, but as a lived experience within the group.
International community
Our programs bring together professionals and participants from diverse cultural, professional, and personal backgrounds.
The strength of our international groups lies not only in diversity, but in the quality of dialogue and mutual learning that emerges from it.
Self-compassion is not taught as an isolated technique, but as an embodied practice that can be integrated into healthcare, education, leadership, and daily life across different contexts and cultures.
Leadership
Self-Compassion Academy is led by an experienced MSC teacher with many years of international teaching and collaboration. The institute was founded with the intention of combining professional training standards with human depth, accessibility and a culture of equal respect.
The Academy works in close collaboration with a network of highly experienced teachers who share a commitment to integrity, compassion, and professional excellence.
Together, we provide structured, high-quality training within a respectful and supportive learning environment.
Our commitment
We are dedicated to cultivating self-compassion not only as a personal resource, but as a professional and societal capacity.
Through careful training, international collaboration, and a spirit of common humanity, we contribute to the growing global field of self- compassion with steadiness and care.
Our MSC courses
Grow inner strength with our Mindful Self-Compassion courses. An evidence-based program for mental strength. Start your personal adventure to self-kindness and acceptance, in-person or online.