Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living (MBCL)
A follow-up compassion training programme after a foundational course in mindfulness. Cultivate self-compassion, compassion for others and our planet.
Ancient wisdom and modern science confirm the beneficial effects of mindfulness and compassion. Fortunately, we can grow these qualities with practice, which is perhaps what the world needs more than ever.
MBCL is a compassion training programme, developed by the Dutch psychiatrist-psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher and trainer Erik van den Brink and the Dutch meditation teacher and mindfulness teacher and trainer Frits Koster.
It is recommended as a follow-up course after participating in a foundational course in mindfulness and helps to deepen the healing effects of mindfulness with exercises for cultivating compassion for yourself, others and the planet at large.
MBCL welcomes people in all their diversity and not exclude anyone on the basis of their gender, or their ethnic, cultural or religious background.
MBCL Blog
New: International MBCL SiTT Group
We are delighted to announce a new online peer-supervision / intervision group, in collaboration with SiTT for all who have attended a Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living Teacher Training. SiTT - Support for Integrity in Teaching and Training - is a peer-led...
MBCL-research under the spotlight in Wales, Prague and China 2024
Interest in the effects and mechanisms of MBCL in people with (recurrent) depression seems to have increased significantly internationally. It seems that MBCL, as a continuation of MBCT, can have a clear added value for people with (recurrent) depression. This is...
How to forgive yourself and others – Mindfulness-Based Training in Forgiveness
As human beings, we all sometimes find it difficult to understand and accept things that have gone wrong – either by ourselves or by others. We may then dwell in blaming, resentment or bitterness, and we usually do not become happier as a result. The meaning and value...