Biography
Lorraine M. Hobbs, M.A., is Founding Director of the Youth, Family & Education Programs at the UCSD San Diego Center for Mindfulness. She is a family therapist and former clinical director of adolescent treatment programs. Lorraine is certified to teach Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), and Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT). Lorraine is co-author of two books: Teaching Self-Compassion to Teens (Guilford Press, 2022) and The Self-Compassion Workbook for Kids (New Harbinger, 2023). During her tenure at the Center for Mindfulness, she designed and implemented curricula in mindfulness-based interventions for multiple age groups, including a program in Mindful Compassionate Parenting for Parents of Kids with Autism and Other Neurodiverse Conditions. She is a pioneer in self-compassion training for parents, teens and kids and is co-author of the Mindful Self-Compassion Program for Teens, adapted from the adult program. Lorraine is co-founder of the MSC-T teacher training program and provides teacher training in the MSC-T curriculum throughout the U.S. and internationally. Her new curriculum for kids, The Friend in Me: An emotional strength training program for kids has been adapted into a classroom model that is AI supported to help kids cultivate skills in interoceptive body awareness and self-compassion. She is also a mentor for the MBSR certification pathway at the UCSD Mindfulness Based Professional Training Institute.
Why I support the Compassion Coalition
My interest in the Global Compassion Coaliation is to help unify a movement of compassion training to a global population. Many hands can reach farther and help to build a connection to self, others and humanity in a time of change and uncertainty. Compassion is about acknowledging when suffering is present and responding with love. The world is in need and together we can open hearts and minds.