CFT and the courage of compassionate relating with emotional parts, selves and voices: a Mind in Camden course on Tuesday 29th January 2019 from 10.00 am to 4.30 pm with trainer Charlie Heriot-Maitland
About the course: Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT, Gilbert, 2009; 2010) aims to help people regulate threat based emotions, experiences and conflicts by building internal feelings of safeness and connectedness and by providing contexts, practices and insights that facilitate the development of compassion to self and others. As such, CFT can offer a useful framework for approaching mental health and wellbeing challenges at each of the personal, professional, organisational and community levels.
In this workshop, we will explore how our evolved minds can be orientated in certain ways depending on our social motives, and consider evidence of how orientating our minds towards compassion for self and others can bring a variety of positive mental and physical and health benefits. The workshop will introduce ideas on how we might develop compassion for ourselves as well as facilitate the development of compassion among others, including those who are experiencing distress in relation to voices and other experiences. We will also consider ways of creating social contexts and environments in which compassion may flourish. A combination of group discussion exercises and experiential practice will be used.
About the trainer: the workshop will be led by Dr Charlie Heriot-Maitland, a clinical psychologist, researcher and trainer (University of Glasgow and Balanced Minds). He is currently researching the social context of anomalous experiences and the application of Compassion Focused Therapy for people experiencing distress in relation to psychosis. He provides psychological therapies for a CFT practice called Balanced Minds in London and Edinburgh, and also runs compassion training workshops for practitioners and the general public.
Fees: £12 Unwaged; £50 Self-funding part-time earners and students; £100 Self-funding full-time earners and voluntary sector organisations; £125 Private and Statutory organisations.
Payment via eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cft-and-the-courage-of-compassionate-relating-with-emotional-parts-selves-and-voices-tickets-52052405145
Contact John Wetherell: jwetherell@mindincamden.org.uk or 020 7241 8978