Fierce Self-Compassion Course
Stop abandoning yourself to keep the peace.
This 8-week course teaches you the strength-based side of self-compassion: how to protect what matters, set real boundaries, speak to yourself without harsh self-criticism or guilt, and speak your truth.
✓ Learn to address your own needs ✓ Action-oriented ✓ Small groups
- Live Online via Zoom | Wednesdays 7.00 pm CET - 9.30 pm CET
- Dates: Sept 16, 23, 30 | Oct 7, 14, 21 28 | Nov 4
Fierce Self-Compassion Course
Stop abandoning yourself to keep the peace.
This 8-week course teaches you the strength-based side of self-compassion: how to protect what matters, set real boundaries, speak to yourself without harsh self-criticism or guilt, and speak your truth.
✓ Learn to address your own needs ✓ Action-oriented ✓ Small groups
- Live Online: Wednesdays 7.00 p.m. - 9.30 pm CET
- Dates: Sept 16, 23, 30 | Oct 7, 14, 21 28 | Nov 4
✓ 800+ people have found more mental strength through our programs
✓ Official partner of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion
✓ 15+ years of experience in mindfulness and self-compassion
Why join this course?
Tender self-compassion helps you soothe, accept, and steady yourself when life is hard. But there are moments when it’s not enough—when you need to act.
The Fierce Self-Compassion Course, created by Dr. Kristin Neff and based on her book, teaches the strength-based, action-oriented side of self-compassion. It’s the ability to care for yourself by tuning into your own innate strength and worthiness. This allows you to protect what matters, provide for your real needs, physical, emotional, and practical, without guilt, self-abandonment, or aggression, and motivating yourself to make a change, without harshness, guilt, or aggression.
This course trains you to meet life with both warmth and strength. You’ll learn how to stand up for yourself from compassion, not anger, so you can set clear boundaries, speak your truth, and take action without tearing yourself down.
If you’re tired of abandoning yourself to keep the peace, this course offers another way: courage with care, and strength with kindness.
What you'll learn
This course helps you integrate tender and fierce self-compassion so you can live with clarity, courage and connection. You’ll learn how to:
- Use self-compassion to build the inner energy to protect, support, and create meaningful change for yourself.
- Speak up, set limits, and hold your ground with kindness and self-respect
- Work with anger in healthier ways, instead of turning it inward as self-criticism or outward as blame
- Identify your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual needs, and respond to them wisely
- Let go of the belief that you “need” self-criticism to improve or stay motivated
- Find wholeness by integrating your fierce and tender sides, so strength and kindness work together
- Strengthen your ethical courage so you can act in line with your values, even when it’s uncomfortable
For whom?
This course is for you if you sometimes say yes when you mean no. If you take on too much because it feels easier than disappointing someone. If you push through when you’re exhausted, put your own needs last, or hold back what you really think to keep the peace.
Fierce self-compassion is the missing piece, the inner strength that lets you protect what matters, speak your truth, and actually provide for your own needs, without guilt or harshness.
It is really helpful if you’ve already explored self-compassion basics for example through the MSC Course, MSC Intensive, or MSC Core Skills Workshop.
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The practical details
- Wednesday 7.00 pm om CET - 9.30 pm CET
- Sept 16, 23, 30 | Oct 7, 14, 21, 28 | Nov 4
- Live Online (via Zoom)
- 625,-
- Natalie Bell & Mila de Koning
What is included in each session?
Each session includes:
- A guided reflective meditation
- Theory and group discussion
- Experiential exercises
- Small group sharing
- Home practice materials
Your teachers for this course
Mila de Koning is senior certified MSC teacher & teacher trainer. She is also supervisor and founding director of the Self-Compassion Academy.
Natalie Bell is senior certified MSC teacher. Together with Kristin Neff Natalie co-developed this Fierce Self-Compassion course.
Our upcoming workshops
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Frequently asked questions
What is fierce self-compassion?
Fierce self-compassion is a form of inner strength that helps you speak up, set boundaries, and stand up for yourself when it matters. Not from anger, but from care. It is the energy that says: “My needs matter, my voice matters, my well-being matters.” Read more about fierce self-compassion.
What is the difference between fierce and tender self-compassion?
Most people are familiar with the gentle side of self-compassion: comforting ourselves, offering understanding, learning to be kinder inside. This is essential, but it’s not the whole story.
If we focus only on tenderness, we risk becoming passive or compliant, staying in unhealthy situations or silencing our needs. If we focus only on fierceness, we risk becoming harsh or defensive, pushing others away, or losing touch with our empathy. We need both.
Who is this fierce self-compassion workshop for?
This course is for you if you find it difficult to say no or ask for what you need, you tend to put others first (even at your own expense), you want to care about the world without becoming numb, cynical or burnt out, you long for inner steadiness and clarity in a world that often feels too much, you sense there is a stronger, kinder way to stand in your truth.
What to expect from this workshop?
While exact structure and format may vary, you can expect a safe, supportive group environment, guided meditations and experiential exercises, short talks on the principles of fierce self-compassion, reflection, journalling and sharing (always by invitation, never pressure), practical tools you can integrate into daily life. If you have any questions about the workshop, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Is there any suggested reading material
Yes, to deepen your practice alongside the course, we recommend: Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive by Kristin Neff. This book complements the course, especially for women and those socialised to be “nice” at the expense of their own needs.
What core learning themes will be covered in this course?
In this workshop, you will explore how to bring self-compassion into action in everyday life. Core learning themes include:
- Turning self-compassion into wise action
- Setting boundaries without guilt
- Working with anger as a messenger
- Honouring your real needs
- Supportive self-motivation
- From inner work to outer change
What is the Self-Compassion Academy?
The Self-Compassion Academy is a non-profit organization committed to spreading compassion all over the world. We’re a team of teachers, psychologists, and practitioners brought together by one shared mission: to help you cultivate self-compassion. The Self-Compassion Academy is founded by Mila de Koning. Mila has been delivering mindfulness and self-compassion courses, workshops and coaching to different audiences since 2006.