Mastering Compassion Focused Therapy

Please note that all registrations have to be paid in full before the event takes place - otherwise you will miss out on receiving the Zoom link.

This event will be recorded for all those who are registered but can't make it on the day - recordings are available for a limited time only.

Drawing on behavioral theory, affective neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and Buddhist practice, Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) was originally developed as a means of working with shame and self-criticism. Over the past 15 years, CFT has been found to be of benefit to those experiencing a wide range of difficulties such as anxiety, chronic pain, psychosis, trauma, and eating disorders. This workshop will review foundational CFT concepts, and will then take participants beyond the basics to introduce advanced CFT experiential exercises that can address a range of problems.

This is an opportunity to integrate deeper dimensions of compassion work into your practice, while renewing your understanding of the fundamental dynamics of mindfulness and compassion. No previous CFT experience is necessary.

This workshop will present the working definition of compassion utilized in CFT, will review Professor Paul Gilbert's CFT model of emotion regulation, and will go further to explore how compassion functions as a series of interacting processes and procedures. This constellation of psychotherapy processes can strengthen our ability to turn towards painful experiences, help us work with human suffering, and can cultivate values-based movement in our clients’ lives, and in our own. Participants will leave this workshop armed with a range of specific, new techniques, and an enhanced understanding of what the embodied compassion motive represents. For example, participants will learn how to use compassion embodiment in the therapeutic relationship, active meditative imagery practice and specific CFT chair-work and role-play practices to help clients work courageously with life challenges

PRESENTER: DENNIS TIRCH, PhD (USA)

Dennis Tirch, Ph.D., is The Founding Director of the Center for Compassion Focused Therapy in New York City and Chairman of The Compassionate Mind Foundation, USA. Dr. Tirch is the author/co-author of numerous books, chapters, and peer-reviewed articles on ACT, CFT, CBT, and Buddhist psychology. Dr. Tirch is a Past-President and Fellow of The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), and a Fellow and Certified Consultant/Trainer of The Academy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Online and in-person, Dr. Tirch provides workshops and trainings globally in mindfulness, compassion and acceptance based interventions. Dr. Tirch is a Dharma Holder in Zen Buddhism, in the lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi.