May 20, 7:30PM

This workshop explores how perfectionism and the inner critic develop and how they can impact mood, motivation, relationships, and overall wellbeing. While these patterns often begin as protective strategies meant to help us succeed or avoid failure, they can become rigid, exhausting, and self-limiting over time.

 

Participants will learn how the brain’s default patterns—such as self-judgment, comparison, and over-control—reinforce cycles of stress, anxiety, and burnout. Drawing from evidence-based approaches including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Radically Open DBT (RO DBT), and Internal Family Systems (IFS), this workshop introduces practical tools to shift these patterns.

 

Skills include increasing awareness of critical thoughts, practicing nonjudgmental mindfulness, developing self-enquiry, and learning how to respond to the inner critic with curiosity rather than criticism.

This workshop is designed to help participants build a more flexible, compassionate, and balanced approach to personal growth—where progress is sustainable and not driven by fear or perfection.