Registration
This workshop will be 14 hours towards your CPD, and you will receive a certificate of attendance shortly after the workshop. This workshop will be recorded and recordings will be available for up to one month after the live broadcast for you to watch in your own time.
We will host this workshop via Zoom Meetings and will send all relevant joining instructions before the workshop.
Level - Beginner
Timings
All timings are according to UK BST
10th & 11th May 2027
Day One: 09:30 - 17.00
Day Two: 09.30 - 17:00
Pricing
This workshop is priced at a flat rate of £279.00
To pay in instalments or for those in difficult financial circumstances, who may struggle to afford this price, please contact finance@compassionatemind.co.uk
‘Chairwork’ refers to a group of experiential psychotherapeutic techniques that incorporate chairs, the positioning of chairs and the client’s movement between them. Chairwork has a rich history in psychotherapy and has a key role in Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT). Research has found chairwork to be an effective, experiential intervention that increases emotional processing and activation; facilitates differentiation, dialogue and integration between internal ‘parts’ or ‘selves’; allows clients to gain a metacognitive stance; and is memorably ‘enactive’ in nature.
The webinar will provide participants with an opportunity to practice key CFT chairwork interventions such as working with self-criticism and processing multiple threat-emotions. Alternate and novel applications of CFT chairwork will be introduced and practiced, including working with blocks to compassion using chairwork and integrating motivational chairwork. Each intervention will be introduced with digital adaptations to ensure these powerful procedures can be applied when working online.
The webinar is predominantly skills-based and experiential and will include live observations, practical exercises, theoretical discussion and group reflection. Whilst the workshop is open to people new to CFT, participants will benefit from some prior knowledge of the therapy.
In this webinar participants will:
-Understand the underpinning principles and theoretical rationale for chairwork in CFT
-Practice core CFT chairwork interventions including self-critic and ‘multiple-selves’ interventions
-Work with blocks, fears and resistances to compassion using chairwork
-Practice novel applications of chair-work in CFT (including motivational chairwork)
-Learn how to adapt CFT chairwork for online practice
Online via Zoom
Bell, T. (2021). Compassion-focused therapy chairwork. In P. Gilbert and G. Simos (Eds.), Compassion-focused therapy in clinical practice. Oxon: Taylor and Francis.
Bell, T., Montague, J., Elanders, J, & Gilbert, P. (2020). ‘A definite feel-it moment’: Embodiment, externalization and emotion during chair-work in compassion-focused therapy. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 20, 143-153.
Bell, T., Montague, J., Elanders, J, & Gilbert, P. (2021). ‘Suddenly you are King Solomon’: Multiplicity, transformation, and integration in compassion-focused therapy chairwork. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 31, 3, 223–237.
Bell, T., Montague, J., Elanders, J, & Gilbert, P. (2021). Multiple-emotions, multiple-selves: chairwork in compassion focused therapy. The Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, 14, E22.
Pugh, M. & Bell, T. (2020). Process-based chairwork: Applications and innovations in the time of COVID-19. European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research and Practise, 4, 1-8.
Pugh, M., Bell. T., & Dixon, A. (2021). Delivering tele-chairwork: A qualitative survey of expert therapists. Psychotherapy Research, 31, 7, 843-858.
Pugh, M., Bell, T., Waller, G., & Petrova, E. (2021). Attitudes and applications of chairwork amongst CBT therapists: A preliminary survey. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 14, E21.
Kellogg, S. (2014). Transformational chairwork. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
Pugh, M. (2020). Cognitive behavioural chairwork. Oxon: Routledge
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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.
If you find you are unable to attend this course, please email our admin team via hello@compassionatemind.co.uk as soon as possible. You will be given the option to transfer to another course (within 12 months). Refunds are available if cancellation occurs no less than one month before the start of the course, although we will consider exceptional circumstances.
Yes, towards the bottom of the page under the 'prices' section you will find a link to download a booking form for this workshop. Please fill this in and email to finance@compassionatemind.co.uk
Yes, this absolutley fine. The workshop will be recorded, and you'll be able to catch up on anything you've missed for up to a month after the live broadcast.
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All places booked for our event, must be paid for prior to attending the event unless pre-agreed with management. Please note that we cannot confirm your place until we have received payment.
Should you be unable to attend the event, please contact our admin team as soon as possible via hello@compassionatemind.co.uk. Refunds, less the Eventbrite administration fee, will be made if cancellations are received in writing up to one month before the event. Any cancellations received after this time will not be eligible for a refund, although we will consider exceptional circumstances. While refunds for failure to attend cannot be made, you can transfer your event fee to a future event that will take place within 12 months of your booking without an additional penalty.
Please note that information about the event and venue are subject to change and cancellation. Occasionally, an event may have to be cancelled or postponed. We will endeavour to inform you of any changes and cancellations as soon as possible via email. We cannot take responsibility for any resulting costs you may incur for travel, accommodation, any other related goods or service or other compensation should an event cancellation occur.
For all face-to-face events, lunch provided at the event will be vegetarian and will include eggs, but no meat or fish (though vegan options will also be made available). However, please advise us of any dietary requirements in the notes section whilst booking online and we will do our best to accommodate your request.
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