ONLINE 3-Part WEBINAR SERIES: CFT for Anger (March 2026)

Registration‍

This workshop will be 6 hours towards your CPD, and you will receive a certificate of attendance shortly after the final session. We will host this webinar via Zoom Meetings. This workshop will be recorded and recordings will be available for up to three months after the live broadcast for you to watch in your own time.

This workshop is priced at a flat rate of £115.00.

To pay in instalments or for those in difficult financial circumstances, who may struggle to afford this price, please contact finance@compassionatemind.co.uk

Level: Intermidiate

Timings

All timings are according to UK BST (GMT+1)‍

Session 1 - 4th March 2026 - 14.00 to 16.00

Introduction - Conceptualizing Anger from a CFT Perspective

Session 2 - 11th March 2026 - 14.00 to 16.00

A Model for Applying CFT to the Treatment of Problematic Anger

The Therapeutic Relationship in CFT for Anger

Session 3- 18th March 2026 - 14.00 to 16.00

Applying the Compassionate Self in Working with Anger Episodes and Triggers

About this Course

In this workshop, participants will learn to understand anger and its challenges through a CFT framework, and will learn a structure and strategies for using CFT to help their clients compassionately work with their anger.

Participants will learn to

• Describe how anger organizes the mind in ways that can be tricky.
• Articulate a general treatment model for applying CFT to the treatment of problematic anger.
• Conceptualize and articulate ways of using the therapeutic relationship to support, model, and reinforce compassionate ways of working with anger.
• Utilize compassionate-self work in assisting clients to work with anger triggers.
• Utilize compassionate-self work in assisting angry clients to engage with vulnerable-feeling emotions. ‍

Recommended Reading‍

• Kolts, R.L. (2017). The Anger Workbook
• Kolts, R.L. (2016). CFT Made Simple. Berkeley: New Harbinger.
• Kolts, R.L. (2011). The Compassionate Mind Guide to Managing Your Anger. London: Little, Brown & Co.
• Kolts, R., & Gilbert, P. (2022). Compassion-Focused Therapy in Forensic Settings. In A.R. Beech, A.J. Carter, R.E. Mann & P. Rotshtein (eds)The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Forensic Neuroscience, Wiley: pp. 725-754

Workshop Leader

Russell Kolts is a Professor of Psychology at Eastern Washington University. An internationally-recognized trainer in compassion-focused therapy (CFT), he has co-authored scientific articles on compassion, CFT, and various areas of psychology, as well as several books, including CFT Made Simple, and Experiencing Compassion Focused Therapy from the Inside Out (with Tobyn Bell, James Bennett-Levy, and Chris Irons). Dr. Kolts has specialized in applying CFT to problematic anger, reflected in his book The Anger Workbook, and a TEDx talk entitled Anger, Compassion, and What it Means to be Strong.