A Day of Forgiveness: Cultivating Compassion, Mindfulness, and Emotional Healing (PM3D25)

Registration closes at 8:30am (Pacific Time) on October 25, 2025. A waiting list will be created if the program fills early. A recording* will be available following the program. Continuing Education Credits? (see details below).

Description:
Forgiveness can be one of the most healing—and challenging—practices we undertake. Whether we carry regret for our own actions or pain from the actions of others, forgiveness invites us into a deeper relationship with compassion, acceptance, and inner freedom.

In this daylong program, we’ll explore forgiveness as a skillful practice that begins by connecting with the heart. Through guided meditations and reflections, we’ll cultivate qualities such as lovingkindness (mettā), mindful acknowledgment, and compassion. These practices help loosen the grip of painful memories and open a pathway toward healing.

You are welcome to bring whatever you’re carrying—remorse, grief, anger, guilt, or sorrow. Together, we’ll learn how to honor these emotions without being overwhelmed by them. If you’ve been hurt by others, this day offers tools to hold them accountable while keeping your heart intact. If you feel weighed down by your own actions, you’ll find a way forward beyond guilt and shame.

The retreat will include teachings on the art of forgiveness, guided sitting and walking meditation with periods of noble silence, and a forgiveness ceremony to support letting go and beginning anew.

All are welcome—no previous meditation experience is necessary.

Online Only: We are offering this program online via Zoom.

Benefactor – $175
Sustainer – $95
Basic – $75
Scholarship Rate (BIPOC, M/K) – $45

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org no later than 12:00pm (NOON) PT on the day prior to the program date.

*Recording Note: Registration includes unlimited access to this program’s recording. You must register by the deadline above. The recording will be available in ~10 days after the program.

Important Note for CEC participants: If you are interested in receiving continuing education credits (CECs), you must register and pay for CECs prior to the start of the program (no retroactive CECs will be given) and you must attend the entire program. Please review the CEC information below.

Cancellation Policy – Online: Drop-ins, Daylongs, Multiday Programs (1-3 days), Family Programs/Series, CEC fees:

• NO REFUNDS
• Open Credit, or Donation to Spirit Rock = if cancel by midnight, the day prior to program start (Pacific Time)
• No Open Credit = if cancel day of the program, or beyond

Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 6 CE credits for $60 for psychologists, and California-licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. Please review our Continuing Education information page to determine if your association or board will accept credits offered by Spirit Rock.***

Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.

Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program, you will be better able to:

• Describe to clients how the three components of loving-kindness, mindful acknowledgement, and compassion are integral parts of the practice of forgiveness.
• Incorporate practices with clients to enable them to release remorse, grief, guilt, and shame and move towards forgiveness.
• Describe to clients how to apply mindfulness techniques when they are caught in repeated trauma patterns of anger and/or self-blame.
• Describe and demonstrate to clients a self-forgiveness practice to work with challenging emotions of remorse or guilt and move towards acceptance, clarity, and resolution

Continuing Education content level: Introductory

***Please note:

• For full Provider information, and additional CE information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education information page.
• For those with a different license than listed above, or with a license from a different board or association than listed on our CEC info page, please contact your licensing board or association directly to request pre-approval/acceptance of CE credits offered at Spirit Rock. Spirit Rock does not confirm the applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed.
• Co-sponsor Mindful CECs is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17985 for 6 contact hours.
• Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
• Potential Conflict of Interest Statement: This instructor may have authored publications relevant to the subjects covered in this course. The instructor might reference these publications during the course, and they may receive financial compensation if these publications are purchased.