NOTE: Please direct any enquiries regarding this event to the workshop organiser, Marie Bloomfield at marie@bloomfieldpsychology.com.au

Date:  Mondays 1st May - 5 June 2023

Time: Morning course: 10:00 am - 12:00pm (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra) AEDT

Location: Event Online- Webinar- Live weekly meetings and sessions are video recorded

Price: Early bird (14 April ) $370.00~  Regular $420.00 AUD

Presenters: Marie Bloomfield, Clinical Psychologist and John Julian, Social Worker, both Senior Certified Mindful Self-Compassion and Compassion-Focused Therapy/Compassion Mind Training Teachers

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This interactive live webinar is a comprehensive introduction to Compassion-Focused Therapy or Compassion Mind Training to promote effective clinical intervention.  This course teaches the underlying theoretical Compassion-Focused Therapy framework and essential practices in mindfulness and self-compassion to transform a wide range of mental issues such as inner criticisms, shame, anxiety, depression, and PTSD.   The focus is on developing your own personal practices as well as learning applications that can better assist clients.

What you will learn:
This course will teach the underlying  theoretical framework of Compassion-Focused Therapy as well as clinical applications such as:

1.    Explore the evolutionary model of the “tricky” brain and associated psychological processes to understand difficult emotions.
2.    Ease misgivings, resistance and fear of compassion and self-compassion in ourselves and our clients
3.    Understand and work with the three emotional systems- threat system, drive system and care-giver-soothing system to better regulate emotions
4.    Cultivate practices strengthening helpful motives, competencies and identities of a compassionate self to ease self-criticism.
5.    Focus on cognitive and somatic mindfulness practices to stabilise the mind and to promote feelings of safeness, contentment, warmth and connection.
6.    Enable clients to shift from self-blame to experience acceptance and self-compassion.
7.    Develop a compassionate self to help to bring balance and to regulate difficult emotions/behaviours.
8.    Promote Positive Emotions of engagement and connections
9.    Engagement in self-compassion practices  
10.  Applications of Case Formulation and Life Plan Formulation 

 

 At the end of the course you will be more able to:

• Bring into balance the three emotional systems including the threat system.

• Understand and make peace with the inner critic and ease shame

• Cultivate a compassionate voice to gain better motivation, courage and resilience

• Work with the multiple selves including the compassionate self for more understanding, acceptance and integration

• Understand and practice the three flows of compassion including self-compassion

• Activate the care-giving-affiliative system to develop self-compassionate responses to soothe, to ease difficult emotions

• Increase capacity to engage with distress to help clients more effectively.

• Understand and complete Case Formulations and Life Plan Formulations and use a variety of other worksheets to support the applications of CFT

• Teach others self-reflective exercises, meditations and visualisations to cultivate compassion and self-compassion

What to expect:
This course is a live interactive Webinar. It provides practical applications and tools for your own personal practice as well as supporting clinical work with clients. The content is didactic and experiential with guided mindfulness and self-compassion meditations, visualisations, as well as self-reflective exercises and multiple worksheets. 

We will also be recording every session so that if you cannot attend the session on the day, you can view the session at a later time.

The online Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) course is attended via a Zoom link and the link for attendance is the same for morning and evening sessions, so you can attend to the one that is most convenient for you. 

The format of each session is more or less  as followed:

1. Initial meditation/visualisation demonstrating a concept to be presented during the session
2. Breakout room in groups of 3-4 participants to discuss assignments of the previous session 
3. Presentation of power points of concepts relating to the applications of CFT 
4. Practices and self-reflective exercises with multiple worksheets
5. Assignments for the week: applications of CFT in our personal lives and to help our clients

Who is it for?
This practical training course is for Health Professionals and Therapists who see clients face to face or in group sessions such as psychologists, clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, school counsellors, mental health/psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists, coaches, counsellors and others working in a variety of settings in mental health, drug and alcohol, relationship counselling, genetic counselling and so on.

There will be a clinical focus as well as a personal practice focus and therefore will be beneficial for other health professionals who wish to cultivate a compassionate mind to promote wellbeing, resilience and satisfaction in their personal and work life.

Further information is available here