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Handouts and any accompanying materials will be sent to you via email before the beginning of the workshop. If this is not possible, one of our admin team will be in touch.
Once you click the meeting link to join the meeting, you will be placed in a waiting room and a member of our admin team will add you to the workshop shortly before it begins. A team member will be available for any technical support (should it arise) throughout the day, and can be contacted by private message or via hello@compassionatemind.co.uk
This workshop will offer 7 hours towards your CPD, and you will receive a certificate of attendance shortly after the workshop via email. This workshop will be recorded, and a recording will be sent to all participants and will be available for up to three months after the live broadcast.
This workshop will run on the 13th November 2026.
It will run from 09.30 – 13.30. All timings are according to GMT (UK time zone).
This workshop is offered at a flat rate £1359.
To pay in installments, or for those who may struggle or be unable to afford this price, please contact finance@compassionatemind.co.uk
Shame is a powerful and universal human emotion, evolved to assist us to navigate our social relationships. However, shame can also be profoundly painful and have serious adverse effects on psychological functioning, mental health and social wellbeing. Shame memories have been found to become central to our sense of self-identity, and can have traumatic qualities that maintain and exacerbate threat system activation, especially in the social and relational aspects of our lives. Nevertheless, cultivating compassion, especially directing compassion to oneself and receiving compassion from others, have been found to buffer the negative impact of shame experiences. While shame and shame memories can be painful and difficult to approach, there is mounting evidence about the role that Compassion Focused Therapy can play in helping alleviate and prevent the suffering associated with shame. This workshop will provide a compassionate roadmap for working with shame and shame memories by developing, practicing and embodying the compassionate self, through a combination of knowledge sharing, discussion, and experiential exercises.
· Understand the concept of shame in light of the evolutionary biopsychosocial model
· Distinguish shame from guilt and humiliation
· Comprehend the impact of shame experiences/memories on psychological functioning, mental health and wellbeing
· Learn how to assess and explore shame and shame memories in clinical settings
· Learn how to use CFT imagery, embodiment and behavioral practices to cultivate the compassionate self and work with shame and shame memories
Online via Zoom
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Gilbert, P. (2009). The Compassionate Mind: A New Approach to Life’s Challenges. London: Constable & Robinson.
Gilbert, P., & Andrews, B. (Eds.). (1998). Shame: Interpersonal behavior, psychopathology, and culture. Oxford University Press.
Gilbert, P. (2022). Shame, humiliation, guilt, and social status: The distress and harms of social disconnection. In P. Gilbert & G. Simos (Eds.), Compassion focused therapy: Clinical practice and applications (pp. 122-163). Routledge.
Matos, M., Steindl, S., Gilbert, P. & Pinto-Gouveia, J. (2020). Shame Memories That Shape Who We Are. In P. Gilbert & J. Kirby (Eds) Making an Impact on Mental Health. The applications of psychological research (pp. 97-126). Routledge.
Matos, M., & Steindl, S. (2022). Shame in the Context of Grief. In D. Harris & A. Ho (Eds) Compassion-Based Approaches in Death, Dying, and Grief. (pp. 157-166). Routledge.
Cunha, M., Matos, M., Faria, D., & Zagalo, S. (2012). Shame memories and psychopathology in adolescence: The mediator effect of shame. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 12(2), 203-218.
Ferreira, C., Matos, M., Pinto-Gouveia, J., & Duarte, C. (2014). Shame memories and eating psychopathology: The buffering effect of self-compassion. European Eating Disorders Review, 22(6), 487-494.
Gilbert, P., & Procter, S. (2006). Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self-criticism: Overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 13, 353–379.
Gilbert, P. (2014). The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 53, 6–41.
Matos, M., Duarte, J., & Pinto-Gouveia, J. (2017). The origins of fears of compassion: Shame and lack of safeness memories, fears of compassion and psychopathology. The Journal of Psychology, 151, 804–819.
Matos, M., Pinto-Gouveia, J., & Duarte, C. (2015). Constructing a self protected against shame: The importance of warmth and safeness memories and feelings on the association between shame memories and depression. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 15 (3), 317-335.
Matos, M., & Pinto-Gouveia, J. (2014). Shamed by a parent or by others: The role of attachment in shame memories relation to depression. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 14 (2), 217-244.
Matos, M., Pinto-Gouveia, J., & Duarte, C. (2013). Internalizing early memories of shame and lack of safeness and warmth: The mediating role of shame on depression. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 41 (4), 479-493.
Matos, M., Pinto-Gouveia, J., & Costa, V. (2013). Understanding the importance of attachment in shame traumatic memory relation to depression: The impact of emotion regulation processes. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 20, 149–165.
Matos, M., Pinto-Gouveia, J., & Gilbert, P. (2013). The effect of shame and shame memories on paranoid ideation and social anxiety. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 20, 334-349.
Matos, M., Pinto-Gouveia, J., & Duarte, C. (2012). Above and beyond emotional valence: The unique contribution of the central and traumatic shame memories to psychopathology vulnerability. Memory, 20 (5), 461-477.
Matos, M., & Pinto-Gouveia, J. (2010). Shame as a traumatic memory. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 17(4), 299–312
Matos, M. & Steindl, S. (2020). “You are already all you need to be”: A case illustration of Compassion Focused Therapy for shame and perfectionism. Journal of Clinical Psychology [In Session issue on the Treatment of Perfectionism], 76 (11), 2079-2096.
Petrocchi, N., Ottaviani, C., Cheli, S., Matos, M., Baldi, B., Basran, J., & 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.
Pinto-Gouveia, J., & Matos, M. (2011). Can shame memories become a key to identity? The centrality of shame memories predicts psychopathology. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25(2), 281–290.
Pinto-Gouveia, J., Matos, M., Castilho, P., & Xavier, A. (2014). Differences between Depression and Paranoia: The role of emotional memories, shame and subordination. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 21, 49-61.
Steindl, S. R., Matos, M., & Creed, A. K. (2018). Early shame and safeness memories, and later depressive symptoms and safe affect: The mediating role of self-compassion. Current Psychology.
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