Workshop
Clinical Skills in Compassion Focused Therapy with Prof Paul Gilbert OBE
Three day workshop over three consecutive Mondays
About this workshop
This three day workshop is designed for people who have some training and experience in using Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and are familiar with the basic evolutionary model; the role of affiliative emotion in threat regulation, the distinctions between shame and guilt, and between competitive versus caring motivational systems, and the dimensional nature of our minds.
In this workshop, with the founder of CFT, you will learn how to build and develop key clinical skills for therapeutic practice.
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
This workshop will run on the 2nd, 9th and 16th of November 2026. t will run from 09.30 – 16.30. All timings are according to GMT (UK time zone).
What you'll learn
Deepening compassion focused clinical skills
Understanding and using functional analysis exercises
Developing a compassion focused formulation
Working with fears, blocks and resistances to compassion
Who this workshop is for
Mental Healthcare Practitioners
Those with some prior training in CFT
Those with some experience of using CFT in their practice
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Contact us at finance@compassionatemind.co.uk
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FAQs
Find answers to common questions about this workshop.
This workshop is aimed at those who have a good grounding in the foundations of Compassion Focused Therapy, so we do require that you have completed an Introductory workshop beforehand (please check the topics covered in the Introduction to CFT workshop on our Training Pathway). We generally recommend leaving at least six months between completing an Introductory workshop and attending the Clinical Skills workshop in order to give yourself time to practise with your clients, as this workshop will be aimed to helping you to build on your skills.
Introductory workshops held by other organisations will be accepted, so long as they are at least two days in length, include the topics covered in our Introduction to CFT course, and are led by a recognised CFT trainer. For any queries about this, please email hello@compassionatemind.co.uk
Yes, please email finance@compassionatemind.co.uk who will be able to organise this for you.
All delegates signed up to the workshop will recieve joining links and instructions when they sign up for the event via Eventbrite. Any additional handouts will be sent to you as soon as they are recieved from the speaker. If you do not recieve a welcome email when you book, or have other queries, please email hello@compassionatemind.co.uk.
All attendees will received a certificate upon completion of the course. This will be emailed to you, so please ensure that your details are correct on registration.
Our staff will take a register on each day of the workshop and any non-attendees will not receive a certificate. If you are unable to attend for any reason, please get in touch at hello@compassionatemind.co.uk
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