ONLINE: Exploring CFT with Professor Paul Gilbert OBE
This is a three-day online workshop that will take place on the 23rd, 24th and 25th of September 2025
Date and time
Location
Online
Refund Policy
About this event
- Event lasts 2 days 6 hours
Exploring CFT - Diploma Level Training
Registration
This workshop will be 19.5 hours towards your CPD, you will receive a certificate of attendance shortly after the workshop via email. Handouts will be sent via email to be brought to the workshop. There will be no formal registration, you will be placed in a waiting room once you click on the link and the CMF Team will add you to the meeting.
Level
Intermediate
Workshop timings (UK BST)
24th to 26th September 2025 - 3 days
09.30 – 16.00 each day
Pricing
Standard Rate: £329.00
For those in difficult financial circumstances, who may struggle to afford this price, please contact hello@compassionatemind.co.uk
About this Course
The compassionate mind foundation is now into its fourth year of running a one-year British Psychological Society endorsed diploma. This facilitates in depth learning of CFT with international trainers and with regular supervision. The diploma begins with a three-day exploration of CFT orientated to the diploma.
Due to popular interest and demand we have decided to open this workshop to those with some experience of CFT and at least 3 years post qualification experience working in the capacity of counselling or psychotherapist. Some experience of using CFT would be an advantage. You will be joining the current cohort of trainees
The workshop will:
Explore evolutionary, biopsychosocial and integrative approaches to mental health difficulties and intervention, and the nature of compassion including insight into the biopsychosocial effects of compassion cultivation on mental health and prosocial behaviour
Outline how the three challenges of life (to protect, acquire resources-control, and rest) are linked to three types of emotion regulation and how compassion motivation can harmonise these systems
Outline the basic algorithm of compassion as 1. Being sensitive to distress and suffering in self and others and; 2. working out how to be helpful. These are supported with competencies such as empathy, distress tolerance, and behavioural engagement.
How compassion processing is linked to attachment systems and how they are recruited into therapeutic interventions
Suggested readings:
- Petrocchi, N., Ottaviani, C., Cheli, S., Matos, M., Baldi, B., Basran, J. K., & Gilbert, P. (2023). The impact of compassion focused therapy on positive and negative mental health outcomes: Results of a series of meta-analyses. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.
- Evolution and compassion focused therapy
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586161/full
- Bipolar paper
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.841932/full
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.841932/full#supplementary-material
- Our new therapy book
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.