Taming the Inner Critic: A 4-Week Journey from Judgement to Compassion

Many practitioners and clients live with an inner critic that feels ever-present, ready to judge, undermine, or ridicule attempts to grow. Its familiar harshness can stall creativity, erode confidence, and leave people feeling locked in an exhausting internal battle. Efforts to silence or overpower this voice often intensify the struggle, creating an even more corrosive dynamic.

This four-week series invites a different path. Rather than engaging in conflict, we will explore how to stand firm without being defined by the critic’s narrative. By approaching the critic with curiosity rather than fear, participants can begin to uncover the intentions behind its strategies and move towards a more compassionate internal dialogue.

Drawing on compassion-focused therapy, focusing, and contemporary self-compassion approaches, this series offers a clear and practical toolkit to help transform the relationship with the inner critic. Each session builds progressively towards greater insight, emotional resilience, and a more compassionate internal stance. Practitioners will gain tools they can apply personally and bring into their client work.

This series is designed to be taken as a whole for maximum benefit. The event will be recorded, and colleagues may pre-purchase the recording if they cannot attend live or wish to revisit the material.

The Four Workshops

• Unpacking the Inner Critic - Tuesday 24 February 2026, 13.00 to 15.00 GMT
• Strategies for Working with the Inner Critic - Tuesday 3 March 2026, 13.00 to 15.00 GMT
• How Self-Compassion Techniques Can Help - Tuesday 10 March 2026, 13.00 to 15.00 GMT
• Creating an Ongoing Plan for Transformation - Tuesday 17 March 2026, 13.00 to 15.00 GMT

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Develop a clearer perspective on the function and impact of the inner critic
• Learn strategies that support understanding rather than suppression
• Build a sustainable plan for cultivating a more compassionate internal stance

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• This series is designed for colleagues who work with clients struggling with harsh self-judgement, as well as practitioners wishing to transform their own internal critical patterns.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• Participants will become familiar with approaches that shift the relationship with the inner critic from fear and judgement to curiosity and compassion. This will strengthen their clinical confidence while supporting clients to engage with their inner experience in more flexible and life-enhancing ways.

RECORDING 

This event will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM 

This event will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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Maureen Cooper

Maureen is the founding director of Awareness in Action, an organization dedicated supporting people to make sustainable wellbeing part of their lives—through developing clarity, connection and openness.

Drawing on more than thirty years of experience as a professional educator, senior manager in a non-profit organization, an entrepreneur and as an experienced practitioner of Buddhist meditation, she leads Awareness in Action workshops and training programs in the UK and Europe.

Her new book, The Stress Workbook is a groundbreaking effort that brings together the best of modern science and the wisdom of the world’s ancient contemplative traditions into a practical manual for thriving in today’s fast-paced world. Although born in London, UK love took Maureen to Amsterdam, The Netherlands where she lives with her husband.

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