Beth Mulligan is a certified teacher and teacher trainer of Mindful Self-Compassion. She teaches at the University of California Irvine Center for Integrative Medicine and InsightLA, a center for mindfulness in Los Angeles, California. Beth is also a certified MBSR teacher and teacher-trainer, and adjunct faculty for the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness. She has been a board-certified physician assistant for over 25 years, and is a certified yoga instructor, long-time student of Roshi Charles Tenshin Fletcher, and the guiding dharma teacher at Insight Community of the Desert. Beth is also the author of The Dharma of Modern Mindfulness.

Steven Hickman, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and an associate clinical professor in the University of California San Diego (UCSD) departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine and Public Health. As executive director of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion (CMSC), Dr. Hickman’s role is to provide oversight, vision, direction and focus for the development and expansion of CMSC around the world. He is also the director of professional training, overseeing the training of teachers from “start to finish” and assuring the highest quality standards and the best possible resources for teaching. Steve is also the Founding Director of the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness, a program of community building, clinical care, professional training and research. He has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for 20 years, and has trained teachers of MBSR, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and MSC. He leads MSC intensives and workshops around the world.

Tentative Schedule

March 15
Dinner
Evening Arrival Session
Going Into Silence

March 16 & 17
Early Morning Practice
Breakfast
Morning Practice
Lunch
Afternoon Practice
Dinner
Talk
Practice

March 18 & 19
Early Morning Practice
Breakfast
Morning Practice
Lunch
Mindful Local Activities
Dinner
Talk
Practice

March 20
Early Morning Practice
Breakfast
Coming Out of Silence
Lunch
Departure