Official 8 week Training

There are multiple compassion trainings. Kind to Mind offers the 8 week Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living (MBCL) training as follow-up to mindfulness or other insight practices (e.g., zen meditation, breathworks). See below for a more detailed description.

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Oct 23, 2024, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM GMT+2
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Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living (MBCL)

The MBCL is an 8 week training, developed by Frits Koster and Erik van den Brink as a follow-up training to an official 8 week mindfulness (MBSR / MBCT) training. This training has been developed for people who are facing strong critical minds and those who are more inclined to cross their own boundaries. By further developing (self-)compassion skills, you learn to face difficult and stressful experiences, from which the intention arises to bring relief. This allows you to deal better with difficult circumstances, and act more consciously while being less guided by negative thoughts and feelings.

Joshua

" I really liked that the training was not woolly. It contained concrete examples and actions. It is not like 'Sit for a while and all your problems will be resolved'. The contact with Marleen was very nice, she radiates calmness and warmth and seems to have infinite patience. She was also easily reachable and responded quickly."

Meet the founders

Frits Koster - on the left
Is a former monk (6 years) and health care nurse. He has practiced vipassana meditation since 1979 and studied Buddhist psychology. Currently, Frits works as a mindfulness and compassion teacher in mental health care, and he is a teacher and trainer at various mindfulness training institutes in the Netherlands and abroad, for the general public, as well as for healthcare professionals.

Erik van den Brink - on the right

Is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He has worked, among others, at the Center for Integral Psychiatry (Lentis, Groningen) and Het Behouden Huys (psycho-oncological center, Haren). Erik pioneered extensively with mindfulness-based and compassion-focused work in mental healthcare to address our self-healing capacity. Lastly, Erik is an (inter-)national guest teacher and supervisor at various mindfulness institutes and healthcare organizations.