Registration
This is a three-days workshop over 3 Mondays that will take place on:
12th January 2026
19th January 2026
26th January 2026
09:30hrs - 16:30hrs each day
All timings are UK BST (GMT+1)
This workshop will be 21 hours towards your CPD, and you will receive a certificate of attendance shortly after the workshop.
Level: Intermediate
Requirement: This workshop is intented to follow the CFT Introduction which we recommend delegates to have attended previously and been practicing CFT with their clients for at least 6 months.
Pricing
This workshop is priced at a flat rate of £350. For those in difficult financial circumstances, who may struggle to afford this price, please contact hello@compassionatemind.co.uk
About This Course
This three day workshop is designed for people who have some training and experience in using compassion focused therapy having attended either a two or three day training course; are familiar with the basic evolutionary model; the role of affiliative emotion in threat regulation, distinctions between shame and guilt and competitive versus caring motivational systems and the dimensional nature of our minds.
Learning Objectives
- deeper understanding into the nature of compassion
- working within the therapeutic relationship
- developing the compassion focused formulation
- the nature of functional analysis
- using functional analysis to work with self-criticism and shame
- explaining and exploring multi-self and the interaction between threat-based emotions such as anger, anxiety and sadness
- how to use chair work to engage in different aspects of the self
- ways of deepening the concepts of the compassionate self and compassionate image
- ways of working with the fear and resistance to compassion
Workshop Leader
Prof Paul Gilbert FBPsS, PhD, OBE is the founder of Compassion Focused Therapy, and is the President of the Compassionate Mind Foundation. He is an internationally renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology, who is particularly recognised for his expertise in the treatment of depression and shame. He has researched evolutionary approaches to psychopathology for over 35 years with a special focus on shame and the treatment of shame based difficulties, for which compassion focused therapy (CFT) was developed. He has written and edited 22 books and established the Compassionate Mind Foundation in 2006. He was awarded an OBE in March 2011
