This week’s study group task

Learn more about your study group task for Week 4.

This week is all about self-compassion and its importance to wellbeing and performance. In your study group this week, you’re going to share your experiences with cultivating self-compassion and emotional health throughout the week and then create a list showcasing your top tips on practising self-compassion that can be shared with the other learners.

What you need to do

1. As a group, decide who will be your reporter for this week’s task. Their job is to share with other learners the work you’ve produced as a group. Consider having more than one reporter in your study group. This helps to share the workload if it gets busy later in the week (If you were the reporter for a previous week, think about sharing the role with another group member).
2. By yourself, make your way through the week. Play the videos, do the self-compassion exercise and the lovingkindness meditation, read the articles and engage with other learners.
3. From Wednesday 1 March, discuss with your group what you did throughout the week to practise self-compassion. What were the effects on your wellbeing and performance? Did you practise savouring or start noticing pleasant things? If so, what did you notice?
4. As a group, create an agreed list of the group’s favourite ways of cultivating positive mind states.
5. If you’re the reporter, share the list with other learners in the Comments section of the Feedback from Craig and Richard for Week 4 step by Sunday 5 March.

We’d love for the work you produce as a study group to meet the 1200 character limit of the comments, but if you find that you’re working on a longer piece of writing with your study group or just need a place to workshop your ideas, consider using temporary text hosting tools like Pastie or NoteHub. Find out more about using Temporary text hosting.

At the end of this week, learners who have joined a study group will share the work they’ve produced for this week’s study group task. Once they have, be sure to provide your own constructive feedback and commentary.

If you missed this week’s group task, or are catching up with the course – you’re not alone – be sure to provide your own constructive feedback and commentary.