Growing the Heart of Compassion to Bridge Polarities
Join us in this uplifting workshop
Cultivating self-compassion as the foundation for sustainable leadership and change
October 13th | 10:00–17:00 CET
Location: Stockholm (nature-based)
In this nature-based pre-summit workshop, we’ll explore self-compassion as a powerful inner resource for leadership and systemic change. Rooted in neuroscience and the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), this immersive experience offers embodied practices to cultivate presence, courage, and inner clarity.
Together, we’ll build the emotional resilience and relational trust needed to lead authentically in times of uncertainty—bridging inner and outer transformation through the heart of compassion.
Galia Tyano Ronen is a licensed clinical psychologist, practicing for over thirty years. She maintains a private practice in Israel, specializing in mind-body-spirit psychotherapy. Galia is also a certified focusing-oriented therapist, a mindfulness and a certified self-compassion teacher in the Mindful Self-Compassion program.
She is the program developer and former director of the Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy Certificate Program (SCIP) at the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. She has pioneered mindful self-compassion in Israel. She created a bilingual MSC course for Arabs and Jews titled "Planting Seeds of Compassion". She is a trauma-sensitive practitioner (advanced TSM with David Treleavan) and a certified Mindfulness teacher by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, MMTCP, and a mindfulness teacher mentor. An organisational consultant based on group analysis. Galia co-edited and wrote in the book “Grounding Psychotherapy in Self-Compassion”.
She is an artist who draws her inspiration from the diversity of connections. With her local community, she creates cultural festivals based on the generosity, togetherness, free will, spirit, and talent of citizens living in her town. She tries to give the place, in which she lives, a sense of a united, loving community, including all people near and far, using earth-honoring traditions.
Mirjam is a Certified MSC and Certified MBSR Teacher, trained as a Yoga Teacher and Certified “Awake in the Wild” Nature Meditation Teacher. MA European Business Studies and BA Development Cooperation. Intervention trainer at Social Neuroscience Lab, Max Planck Society. Teacher Training in "MBST - Mindfulness-Based Sustainable Transformation" in partnership with Inner Green Deal and The Mindful Society Global Institute.
Trained in various interpersonal mindfulness formats. +15 years of consultancy work in international development cooperation in capacity building and evaluation, working and living on many continents.
Integrating those life-changing experiences into teaching mindfulness and compassion as socially engaged practices in a trauma-sensitive way to reconnect and inspire a mindset of openness for change.Co-coordinating the European Grateful Living network, co-facilitating various EcoDharma initiatives, contributing to ETH Zurich's program "Regenerative Systems" and Living Systems Lab, Monviso Institute, teaching at UC Irvine, and coordinating at the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, California.
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Sophie Legendre is a certified ICF coach with a background in engineering and extensive leadership experience in both the public and private sectors, in Canada and internationally. Fluent in French, English, and Spanish, she supports startups and leaders as they navigate rapid growth, complexity, and transformation.
Her coaching is grounded in systemic thinking and designed to foster the inner shifts that enable lasting outer change. She integrates frameworks like Theory U and the Inner Development Goals (IDG), contributing to this global movement as an IDG Ambassador. Combining a systemic lens with a compassionate approach,
Sophie creates meaningful and transformative experiences where clarity, connection, and new possibilities emerge. She helps clients strengthen their leadership from the inside out. Her work is rooted in a deep belief: that meaningful, systemic change begins within—and grows in relationship with others.
Self proclaimed Compassion Activist, Heidi is a pioneering mindfulness educator and , trained under Jon Kabat-Zinn and one of the first to introduce Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to Sweden in 2006, teaching more than 4,000 people since. With backgrounds as Art Psychotherapist, Coach, and Yoga & Meditation Teacher, she integrates Buddhism, contemplative neuroscience, positive psychology, and compassion-based practices to support sustainable leadership and inner transformation.
Author of Mindfulness för Föräldrar (Bonnier), keynote speaker, and facilitator of resilience and compassion programs, she brings two decades of experience in guiding individuals and organizations toward authentic presence, courage, and systemic change. Through her Shero Leaders and Organic Feminine initiatives, she empowers women to transform perfectionism, people-pleasing, and self-doubt into clarity, resilience, and purposeful leadership.
She has trained extensively in mindfulness-based approaches, compassion cultivation, and leadership development, bringing this expertise into work that bridges the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) with embodied, trauma-sensitive practices—cultivating emotional resilience, relational trust, and compassionate action as essential foundations for sustainable change. Over the past decade, she has engaged in co-created community through Ekskäret Klustret.
Passionate about tending to Mother Earth—growing veggies, composting, and caring for bees and chickens—she is a mother of three daughters and two bonus daughters, and makes her home with her family outside Stockholm.