Simge İçen Aruh · Kind Mind Movement

You've managed everything. Yourself last.

Programs and workshops in mindful self-compassion, for people who are still showing up, and still being their own harshest critic. With Simge İçen Aruh, Trained MSC Teacher.

Embracing Humanness

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Trained Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher

This might be for you if…

  • You're exhausted, but stopping doesn't feel like an option

  • You're harder on yourself than you'd ever be on anyone else

  • You feel pressure to perform, produce, and be okay. All at once.

  • Rest is something you feel you have to earn first

  • You know something needs to change, and everything you've tried has involved pushing harder

Portrait of Simge İçen Aruh.

What is Mindful Self-Compassion?

Most people who find their way here aren't soft on themselves. They're usually the opposite: high standards, high output, high self-criticism.

Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is a research-backed program developed by Kristin Neff and Chris Germer. It doesn't ask you to lower your standards or feel better about everything. It changes how you relate to difficulty, so that struggling doesn't have to mean failing.

Research consistently shows it reduces self-criticism, anxiety, and burnout. Not through positive thinking, but through something more durable: learning to be with what's hard without turning it against yourself.

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Programs & Workshops

Group programs, workshops, and single sessions. Turkish and English. All grounded in MSC, including for people skeptical enough to ask whether this actually works.

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MSC Foundations

4w
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Burnout & Resilience

½ day
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Inner Critic Work

3w
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Open Workshop

2h

Corporate Trainings

For teams under pressure. Evidence-based, not motivational.

Simge spent over a decade in corporate environments, in technology and marketing, in startups that moved fast and asked a lot. These sessions come from that experience as much as from the research. Built for organizations ready to look honestly at what it's costing their people.

Burnout Awareness & Recovery
Stress Resilience
Psychological Safety
Self-Compassion at Work
Leading with Compassion
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About Simge

She came to this work through experience, not theory.

Embracing Humanness

Before teaching MSC, Simge spent more than a decade in corporate environments, in technology, marketing, and startups that moved fast and asked a lot. She found mindful self-compassion not as a concept, but as something she needed. That still shapes how she teaches: practically, without pretending the hard parts aren't hard.

Center for MSC
Self-Compassion Academy
Chris Germer & Mila de Koning
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Portrait of Simge İçen Aruh in a relaxed setting.

A quiet letter, once in a while.

Thoughts on self-compassion, burnout, and being honest with yourself when everything is asking something of you. In Turkish and English. No sales, no pressure.

You don't have to have it figured out.

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