Compassion Focused Therapy Workshops
TWO WORKSHOPS in 2023 with Dr Stan Steindl and Dr James Kirby.
OVERVIEW OF WORKSHOPS
Compassion Focused Therapy is an innovative therapy which has become increasingly popular amongst a range of health professionals. CFT was originally developed for clients with high-levels of self-criticism and shame and has a growing evidence-base for a variety of clinical disorders and presentations, including with depression, anxiety, as well as complex trauma, PTSD, and psychosis. Practicing compassion has been shown to have powerful effects on physiological, psychological and social processes.
1. Introduction to CFT (3 days: 10-12 May 2023)(Early bird before 15 Feb $950; Full price $1050)
2. Advanced CFT (3 days: 12-14 July 2023)
(Early bird before 30 June $950; Full price $1050)
STUDENTS: 25% Discount off ticket prices
DOUBLE EVENT BOOKING: $1800 (enter the code: BOTHEVENTS)
For Discount Codes, contact event organiser or email: compassiontrainingaustralia@gmail.com
*Fees include GST
LOCATION
Victoria Park
309 Herston Rd, Herston, Brisbane QLD 4006
WORKSHOP DETAILS
1. INTRODUCTION TO COMPASSION FOCUSED THERAPY (3-day: 10-12 May 2023)
18 CPD hours of professional development for health practitioners
Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) brings an evolutionary framework to the conceptualisation of mental health problems and their alleviation. Practicing compassion has been shown to have powerful effects on the mind, body, and social processes. This introductory course is designed to encourage the use of practices that stimulate compassionate mental states and those that build a sense of the compassionate self-identity.
Workshop Objectives:
1. Gain an understanding of how evolutionary functional analysis advances our understanding of mental health difficulties and in particular the importance of the evolution of attachment, caring and affiliation as part of the human affect motivation and regulation systems
2. Gain an understanding of the 3 system affect regulation model (threat, drive and affiliative-soothing), which informs compassion-focused interventions
3. Be exposed to key compassion-focused skills including the use of the breath and body postures, the practice of compassion focused imagery, the use of compassionate mind training to build the “compassionate self”, employing the “compassionate self” to engage with areas of personal difficulty ,and building supportive social relationships.
4. Gain an understanding of how CFT may be applied to clients with different problems in which there is a non-affiliative relationship with self and/or others (e.g. eating disorders, personality disorders, anxiety, depression, shame, psychosis etc).
2. ADVANCED CFT (3-day: 12-14 July 2023)
18 CPD hours of professional development for health practitioners
This workshop is recommended for practitioners who have completed previous training in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT).
The workshop provides learning opportunities to explore some of the following:
- The role of guided discovery in CFT
- Developing an insight into different forms of formulation especially those rooted in safety strategies and behaviours
- Building compassion competencies including the Compassionate Self
- Explaining and exploring multi-self in relation to emotion and emotional conflict such as the interaction between threat-based emotions such as anger, anxiety and sadness.
- Compassion and difficult emotions
- Functional analysis and engagement with self-criticism
- Compassion and the Critic
- Using method acting techniques
- Using chair-work techniques
- Engaging with shame material
Workshop Objectives:
To enable participants to practice:
- CFT forms of guided discovery
- The different types of Formulation i) motivation based ii) functional emotions based iii) safety strategies
- Working with emotional conflicts in relation to compassion
- Working with self-criticism in a number of different ways
- Working with shame and resistances
- Personal practices
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
DR STAN STEINDL
Stan is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice at Psychology Consultants Pty Ltd, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland. He is also co-director of the UQ Compassionate Mind Research Group, and convenor of the annual UQ Compassion Symposium. Stan has over 25 years experience as a therapist, supervisor, trainer and researcher, and works with clients from motivational interviewing and compassion focused therapy perspectives. His PhD examined combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder and comorbid alcohol dependency, and he continues to work clinically in the areas of trauma and addiction, as well as having a general clinical practice.
Stan’s research interests are in the areas of motivation, behaviour change, compassion and compassion-based interventions, and especially the role of cultivating compassion and self- compassion in the context of trauma, shame, self-criticism and clinical disorders, as well as promoting psychological well-being. He is the author of four books and several book chapters and research publications. His books include: Compassion in a T-Shirt: The First 35 Scripts (2020), The Gifts of Compassion: How to Understand and Overcome Suffering (2020), The Gifts of Compassion: Personal Practice Workbook (2021), and Compassion in a T-Shirt: Another 35 Scripts! (2023).
DR JAMES KIRBY
James is a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer at School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. He is also the Co-Director of the UQ Compassionate Mind Research Group. He has broad research interests in compassion, however, specifically he examines compassion focused therapy and evaluates compassionate mind training interventions. James also holds a Visiting Fellowship at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University.
James has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. He is the author of the book, Choose Compassion: Why it Matters and How it Works. He also continues his work as a clinical psychologist in private practice.