This workshop will be 21 hours for towards your CPD, and you will receive a certificate of attendance shortly after the workshop.
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.
The workshop has been designed to be interactive and give delegates as much of the experience and content as the physical workshop as possible. Kate will go through the content, share the slides and materials, conduct polls, and answer any questions you may have. There will also be instances of group work throughout the three days.
For this workshop, we require delegates to attend live for all three days. Non-attendees will not receive the CPD certificate at the end.
15 - 17th June 2026 (3 days)
Day 1: 09.30 - 16.30 | Day 2: 09.30 – 16.30 | Day 3: 09.30 – 16.30
Level: Intermediate
Standard Rate: £350.00
For those in difficult financial circumstances, who may struggle to afford this price, please contact hello@compassionatemind.co.uk
For this workshop, we require delegates to attend live for all three days. Non-attendees will not receive the CPD certificate at the end.
“it was the first time I had been sad without getting angry and that in part because I felt safe”
This workshop will introduce a five phased group psychotherapy programme designed to provide a model of attachment and containment for group members. We will draw on over fifteen years of clinical and research evidence, which demonstrate the importance of safeness as the foundation for change and growth in CFGP. There will be a theoretical overview of Compassion Focused Therapy as it applies to the practice of group work, coupled with practical suggestions for developing and managing the dynamic and process aspects of group psychotherapy. We will hear from group members who will share their intuitive wisdom of the fundamental importance of cultivating safeness from the outset of the group psychotherapy process.
We will explore the setting and convening of groups across the spectrum of complexity, life span and duration from short term psycho-educative programmes aimed at primary care and educative contexts through to long term trauma focused exploratory psychotherapy with hard to reach groups. We will also cover working with complexity, relational difficulties and attachment trauma, focusing on supporting patients in online and F2F settings. We can adapt the material according to the needs of the group and offer support to staff working in statutory settings to make the case for CFGP (We have been developing this model in the NHS and HSE for over 20 years!). There will be detailed session by session descriptions, coupled with role play demonstrations and opportunities to practice.
For these three days we will immerse ourselves in a fully connected small and large group experience. There will be a range of experiential exercises, focusing on developing personal practice in compassion and delivering psychotherapeutic interventions online. Role play practice opportunities will be offered with small group discussions regarding referral criteria, using an evolutionary psychology model to cultivate compassion as the basis for inner growth and change. These exercises will focus on way of cultivating safeness and working therapeutically within a process driven model, attending to what is happening in the room.
Access will also be given to a personal practice sound cloud and a comprehensive resource pack tailored to the requirements of the group. It is expected that participants in this workshop will gain theoretical and practice-based knowledge about the application of the Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy, managing group dynamics and have the basis upon which to develop groupwork programmes.
We will start with the most important aspect of this work, cultivating the conditions for safeness in ourselves and in our group therapy spaces. These three days will be highly experiential, with opportunities to observe demonstrations and practice these innovative and creative ways of engaging groups. There is a recently published book and the published papers in the recommended reading section which covers the 5 phase model in detail, with more practical advice and guidance.
Access to ongoing group supervision and CFGP Advanced Training is also available.
“I liked the focus on the importance of the group process and the development of relationships within the group. It was extremely helpful to have this mirrored in our break-out groups. I found the experiential exercises very useful, particularly the role taking. Also, the section on managing difficult groups and the role play and discussion within that was very helpful. Also, the section on transference helped me to reflect on what may be happening in groups, but also within other ‘groups’ within our organisation.”
“I thought that it was delivered so well, Kate shared so much helpful information with us in a way that was very engaging. I particularly like to learn through hearing about others experiences which she thoughtfully shared, and I liked how we had a small group we got to work with consistently throughout. I feel like I learnt so much about group facilitation as well as CFT, but also about myself, which I can reflect on for my own practice. I was not expecting it to be this brilliant and am really pleased to have been part of it. I also really enjoyed the activities we learnt and practiced together. I feel quite excited and inspired by this workshop.”
Online via Zoom
Lucre, K. (2022). Compassion-focused group psychotherapy for people who could attract a diagnosis of personality disorder. In Compassion Focused Therapy. Routledge.
Lucre, K., & Clapton, N. (2021). The Compassionate Kitbag: A creative and integrative approach to compassion-focused therapy. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 94(S2), e12291. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12291
Lucre, K. M., & Corten, N. (2013). An exploration of group compassion-focused therapy for personality disorder. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 86(4), 387–400.
Lucre, K., Ashworth, F., Copello, A., Jones, C., & Gilbert, P. (2024). Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy for attachment and relational trauma: Engaging people with a diagnosis of personality disorder. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 97(2), 318–338. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12518
Lucre, K (2025) Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy, Pavillion Publishing
Lucre, K., Clapton, N., Jones, C., Gilbert, P., Copello, A. (2025) (in press) Cultivating the conditions for Safeness” An exploration of patients experiences of a Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy Program for people with Attachment and Relational Trauma
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Due to the interactive nature of this workshop, and particularly that it will contain a lot of group work, we feel you'd be missing too much of its value if you cannot participate live. So all delegates will need to attend live. Any delegates that have signed up but don't attend will not receive a CPD certificate.
Please get in touch at hello@compassionatemind.co.uk if you can now longer attend this workshop and need to change your booking.
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
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 Binita.Shah@compassionatemind.co.uk
Yes, this workshop will be recorded on zoom. Once the workshop has finished all delegates will receive a follow-up email with the links to view these along with any extra resources. These will be available to view for around 3 months post-event. The recordings are edited, so will be made available roughly a week after the workshop has finished.
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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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