What Remains is Love: Transforming Regret and Reclaiming Joy with Mindfulness and Compassion Practices (GF1D25)

Registration closes at 9:00am (Pacific Time) on September 7, 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:
Many of us carry regrets about relationships, careers, missed chances, or paths we wish we hadn’t taken. Over time, these stories can become so weighty that they shape how we move through life—obscuring our capacity for presence and love. In this daylong, we’ll explore the patterns and heft of our regrets with the intention of transforming that which binds us into freedom. Through the heart practices of lovingkindness and forgiveness, we’ll meet our regrets with compassion and curiosity, gently untangling the mind of habits that may no longer serve us.

Drawing from Buddhist psychology and teachings, we’ll explore how mindfulness and heart-based practices can help soften these inner narratives and create more internal space for resilience and a greater capacity for joy. By turning towards our choices, our past, and ourselves with wisdom, clarity, and heartfulness, we can allow ourselves to remember that what remains is love.

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

Sliding Scale: Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Please consider paying at the highest rate that you can afford: your generosity supports the teachers as well as Spirit Rock and your fellow practitioners who need to pay less.

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 4.5 CE credits for $45 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. This program offers healthcare professionals clinically relevant strategies to address maladaptive regret, self-critical rumination, and emotional rigidity—factors commonly associated with mood disorders and psychological distress. Through the application of mindfulness and compassion-based interventions, participants will learn evidence-supported techniques that enhance emotion regulation, reduce self-blame, and foster psychological flexibility. These practices may be integrated into client sessions to promote recovery from trauma, build self-compassion, and improve well-being. Additionally, the program supports clinicians’ well-being by offering personal tools for reflection and self-care grounded in empirically supported methods.

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

• Differentiate between adaptive remorse and maladaptive regret using frameworks from mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and Buddhist-informed clinical models.
• Apply mindfulness-based interventions to reduce cognitive fusion with self-critical or ruminative thoughts in clinical contexts.
• Implement compassion-focused strategies such as loving-kindness and forgiveness practices to help clients reduce shame and promote emotional resilience.
• Incorporate evidence-based joy-enhancing practices to support clients in developing greater psychological flexibility and well-being.

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 CE 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 other than those listed.
• Co-sponsor Mindful CECs is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17985 for 4.5 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.