2019
Training Events
Internationally Known Trainers, Mindful Compassion Groups and Online Training Events
Join us for a 4 Day/4 Night intensive training retreat in mindfulness & Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), with a team of internationally known, expert trainers in compassion focused practice.
For more information or to register please click here.
Anxiety and chronic worry are major sources of suffering that conventional medicine has, at best, a mixed track record in treating. For thousands of years, global wisdom traditions have held that training the mind and cultivating compassion can be highly effective in helping people face their fears, and a growing body of scientific research supports that view. This workshop with an expert in “Compassion-Focused Therapy” draws from cutting-edge neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and Buddhist mindfulness methods to teach us innovative, evidence-based meditation, as well as visualization and cognitive re-framing techniques designed to increase our emotional strength and psychological flexibility. You will leave this workshop equipped with an array of powerful new tools and healing perspectives that will permit you to move beyond anxiety and live with renewed meaning, purpose, and vitality.
A One-Day Workshop
Sunday, December 2, 2018, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm
Members $125/ Nonmembers $145
18FP01S
https://www.opencenter.org/compassionate-mind-training
For more information or to register: Click Here https://www.eomega.org/workshops/compassion-in-connection-conference#wsTeachers
Join top leaders in the field of compassion to learn about the major compassion programs, compassion training, and more. The Center for CFT Founder, Dr. Dennis Tirch, will be delivering a training on Sunday morning.
There are many diverse ways to alleviate suffering, but compassion and connection are always part of the process. In the growing field of compassion teaching, it’s not easy to keep up with the latest programs, developments, challenges, and successes. Join top leaders in the field to explore how compassion work is affecting change and making a difference in people’s lives.
Whether you are already teaching compassion, or are interested in learning more about compassion as a general subject, this community-building conference brings together various compassion programs all in one place and provides an opportunity to:
The conference includes presentations about the five empirically supported compassion training programs, a panel discussion on working with specific communities of need and the variations they may require, compassion meditation sessions, and more.
Thupten Jinpa, PhD; Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, PhD; Kristin Neff, PhD; Christopher K. Germer, PhD; Steven Hickman, PsyD; Michelle Becker, LMFT; Kc Branscomb; Timothy Harrison; Rhoda Schuling ; Dennis Tirch, PhD; Karen Bluth, PhD; Lorraine M. Hobbs; Monica C. Worline, PhD
For more information and to register please click here.
From the website of the event:
"Don't miss the opportunity to get extensive training from Dr. Dennis Tirch and Dr. Laura Silberstein - two of the world's leading practitioners of compassion-focused therapies. The amount of seats are limited and this is a very rare and unique occasion.
This workshop takes place in Stockholm on October 15-16th, 2018 AND
Copenhagen on October 17-18th, 2018"
Rather than being a soft option, the deliberate activation of our mindful compassion can generate the courage, emotional strength and psychological flexibility we need to face life’s challenges and opportunities. This is the fierce compassion that lies at the heart of mastering Compassion Focused ACT. This workshop will bring us into deep contact with such a capacity.
Dr. Dennis Tirch and Dr. Laura Silberstein will offer a 2 day intensive workshop for therapists who want to move towards psychotherapy mastery through a direct experience of Compassion-Focused ACT. Personal practice of advanced mindfulness, compassion, and acceptance based techniques forms the core of this workshop. Rather than just learning how to use these methods in therapy, participants will benefit from direct, personal practice of the core Compassion-Focused Therapy and ACT practices.
Recent advances in psychological research, theory and practice have suggested that compassion may be a significant, active process in psychotherapy effectiveness. Participants will learn a new evolutionary model of compassionate flexibility, that is grounded in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), ACT, and elements of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP). Direct, experiential exercises, including a range of compassion focused imagery practices, will invite participants into contact with their compassionate minds.
The workshop will have the quality of a retreat – a retreat where the centerpiece is deep experiential work and self-reflection. Working together will be a wonderful opportunity to spend quality time learning with two of the world’s leading practitioners of compassion-focused therapies. While we will be exploring dimensions of the science of compassion in an ACT-friendly way, clinicians of any theoretical orientation and level of experience may benefit from this immersion in working with the compassionate courage and mindful wisdom.
https://www.actdanmark.dk/kurser/compassion-focused-act/
For more information and registration please click here.
Workshop Description:
Rather than being a soft option, the deliberate activation of our mindful compassion can generate the courage, emotional strength and psychological flexibility we need to face life's challenges and opportunities. This is the fierce compassion that lies at the heart of mastering Compassion Focused ACT. This workshop will bring us into deep contact with such a capacity.
Dr. Dennis Tirch and Dr. Laura Silberstein will offer a 2 day intensive workshop for therapists who want to move towards psychotherapy mastery through a direct experience of Compassion-Focused ACT. Personal practice of advanced mindfulness, compassion, and acceptance based techniques forms the core of this workshop. Rather than just learning how to use these methods in therapy, participants will benefit from direct, personal practice of the core Compassion-Focused Therapy and ACT practices.
Recent advances in psychological research, theory and practice have suggested that compassion may be a significant, active process in psychotherapy effectiveness. Participants will learn a new evolutionary model of compassionate flexibility, that is grounded in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), ACT, and elements of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP). Direct, experiential exercises, including a range of compassion focused imagery practices, will invite participants into contact with their compassionate minds.
The workshop will have the quality of a retreat – a retreat where the centerpiece is deep experiential work and self-reflection. Working together will be a wonderful opportunity to spend quality time learning with two of the world’s leading practitioners of compassion-focused therapies. While we will be exploring dimensions of the science of compassion in an ACT-friendly way, clinicians of any theoretical orientation and level of experience may benefit from this immersion in working with the compassionate courage and mindful wisdom.
For more information and registration please click here.
The theme of the Conference is Cultivating Compassion, Positive Emotion and Well-Being, and Dr. Tirch and Dr. Silberstein-Tirch will be delivering the following pre-conference workshop:
Mastering Compassion Focused Therapy
- How to advance your CFT Skills by cultivating the 12 competencies of compassionDr Dennis Tirch PhD & Dr Laura Silberstein-Tirch PsyD
To pursue any motivation requires the capacity to be sensitive to the contextwhere it is required and is possible to fulfil, accompanied by implicit andexplicit knowledge of how to enact the appropriate behaviours for successful outcome. Compassion as a motivation and therefore also has these two psychologies. Each psychology is represented by six competencies making 12 in all. Advancing as a Compassion Focused Therapist involves developing afluent working knowledge of how we can activate the 12 competencies of compassion for ourselves and for our clients.
Participants will explore a process-focused approach for staged and effective CFT delivery, that can enhance our therapy skills throughout the course oftreatment. This method will begin with an assessment and collaborative caseconceptualization, grounded in the 12 competencies of compassion. Participants will then learn how to track the engagement of compassion, moment-by-moment, targeting fears, blocks and resistances to therapeuticgrowth as they arise.
For more information and registration please click here.
Please join us for a full day conference exploring the role of mindfulness, acceptance and compassion in psychological interventions for patients and caregivers across the trajectory of cancer treatment. Dr. Tirch will give an opening talk on "An Introduction to the Science and Spirit of Acceptance-Based and Dennis Tirch, PhD Compassion Focused Therapies." Speakers include Dianne Shumay, PhD; Chris Nelson, PhD; Donald Marks, PhD and Dr. Tirch. The conference takes place at New York University's Loeb Auditorium. We hope to see you there.
For the Schedule and for registration information, Please Click Here.
Shame is one of the most challenging experiences that therapists and clients will face together. We know from our research that shame is a trans-diagnostic process, that can block progress in therapy for many people. The experience of shame is associated with suicidal behaviors, substance use, and other negative emotions. Treating shame effectively is extremely important, yet it isn't usually at forefront of our psychotherapy training. How do we build our skills to engage shame effectively?
This workshop brings together two internationally known experts in evidence based treatments designed to shame and emotion dysregulation: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). Participants in this intensive training will explore a wide range of experiential techniques drawn from these cutting-edge approaches for overcoming the destructive influence of shame.
The workshop will teach participants direct, experiential methods for cultivating the compassionate mind, using meditation, visualization, and other dimensions of training the mind.
For more information or to register, please click here.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-compassion-focused-therapy-cft-tickets-47589844506
Current psychological research suggests that compassion may be a significant, active process in psychotherapy effectiveness. This one day clinical and experiential workshop will introduce you to compassion-focused therapy (CFT), an evidence-based psychotherapy that makes the compassion process central to clinical work.
This one-day workshop gives you an overview of the approach as well as hands-on experience.
AS OF 4/12/2018 THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT - PLEASE JOIN US NEXT YEAR FOR THE 2ND ANNUAL COMPASSIONATE MIND RETREAT! WE WILL ALSO BE POSTING A DOZEN NEW EVENTS FOR 2018 IN THE COMING DAYS - PLEASE WATCH THIS SPACE - THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT - MANY COMPASSIONATE WISHES TO YOU AND YOURS - DT
Dr. Paul Gilbert
Please Join Us for a 4 Day/3 Night Intensive Training Retreat in Mindfulness & Compassion Focused Therapy, with a team of internationally known expert trainers including: CFT Founder Dr. Paul Gilbert, Dr. Dennis Tirch, Dr. Laura Silberstein-Tirch, Dr. Russell Kolts, Dr. Chris Irons, and several of the world's top compassion psychologists. We are also glad to announce that our friend, ACT co-founder Dr. Kelly Wilson will be sharing a special guest presentation.
Over 4 days and 3 evenings, we will explore some of the deepest trainings in these methods yet presented in the US. This retreat will allow you to learn compassion focused imagery, meditation and evidence based psychotherapy techniques from the inside out, through intense engagement.
Whether you are completely new to mindfulness and compassion based practice, or you are wishing to deepen your work into advanced territory, this gathering is meant for you. The science of meditation, evidence-based psychotherapy, and the motivation of great compassion for ourselves and others will come together in this week of shared practice and learning.
Dr. Dennis Tirch
This is a rare opportunity to share an expansive and meaningful training retreat with the founder of Compassion Focused Therapy, Dr. Paul Gilbert and friends. Set in a private facility in the lower Hudson Valley, just 16 miles outside of Manhattan, this immersive training involves personal practice and advanced psychotherapy skill development.
Dr. Laura Silberstein-Tirch
You will learn the scientific roots of compassion, mindfulness and CFT in a "user-friendly" and engaging style. An "inside out" approach will allow you to systematically explore ways to train your own mind in greater wisdom, compassion and mindfulness. From this place of deep personal experience and intellectual knowledge, you will be well prepared to share this approach to alleviating suffering and personal liberation with your clients, students and others.
Dr. Russel Kolts
Our experiential program will run from 10 AM to 4 PM each day, Thursday through Sunday. In the evenings, we will enjoy academic talks and clinical trainings from some amazing compassion scientists and clinical experts including:
Dr. Kelly Wilson
Where: The Union Arts Center, Sparkill, NY - https://uacny.com
When: Thursday, April 26th - 10 AM - 4 PM and 7 PM -9 PM; Friday, April 27th - 10 AM - 4 PM and 7 PM -9 PM; Saturday, April 28th - 10 AM - 4 PM and 7 PM -9 PM; Sunday, April 29th -10 AM-4 PM.
Our expanded schedule calendar, and CE information are coming soon.
Dr. Chris Irons
Tuition Fees:
Extended Pre-registration: Until February 14th - 550.00
Early Registration (Before March 17th): 575.00
Registration and Onsite Booking: 600.00
To Pre-Register, simply use the PayPal button below, and send an email to compassionfocused@gmail.com, describing:
1. Who you are,
2. What is your aim for this retreat.
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Dr. Marcela Matos
Lodging and Food Information: The above tuition fee does not include food and lodging for this retreat. We have an arrangement with a local hotel for a discount rate. The Holiday Inn in Orangeburg, NY is offering us a discount rate of approximately 105.00 per evening. Their facility is 2 miles away from the venue, and we will be arranging shuttles and transportation to and from the location.
The code for the hotel registration is CMF. You can book it directly from their website by clicking here
Their are other places to stay nearby. For example, the "Time Hotel" is 5 miles away in Nyack, is more of a “boutique” hotel, and their rates should be about 150.00 per evening.
Dr. Nicola Petrocchi
We will have coffee and a continental breakfast for you at the retreat, and there will be snacks & beverages to purchase throughout the conference on-site. For those who would wish to have meals at the venue with the group, the Union Arts Center has arranged for a meal plan so that people can maintain as much of a “retreat” like experience as possible. Lunch & Dinner packages are available for $160 and include lunch for Thursday, Friday Saturday & Sunday and Dinner on Thursday, Friday & Saturday. You can email Angela at angela@uacny.com to arrange this. She will then send you a link prepay.
Martin Brock
There are several nature walks and restaurants near the venue and just 10 minutes walk from Sparkill, you can find the village of Piermont, which has a wide range of food, entertainment and art options, too. If you arrange transportation into nearby Nyack, you will find an interesting Hudson Valley village with a lot of cultural life. Furthermore, we are going to be very near to NYC, so if you are traveling in, you might want to schedule some time to enjoy New York, or the lower Hudson Valley!
Deirdre Fay
Travel: The closest airport is likely Newark, NJ, which is about an hour away. There is bus service into Sparkill, right near the facility. Also, there are trains into Tarrytown, NY and other nearby locations, too, which have subsequent buses to the venue and near the hotels.
Despite the stellar lineup that has agreed to join us, we at The Center for CFT want you to know that this retreat is ultimately a labor of love, and a “mom and pop” operation for the retreat, so feel free to be in touch with me at any time to help make your experience work. - DT
AN EIGHT SESSION ONLINE WORKSHOP - 16 CE HOURS - FEB. 26, 2018 - APRIL 16, 2018
With Dr. Dennis Tirch and Dr. Laura Silberstein-Tirch
Learn How the Science of Compassion Can Help You and Your Clients Face Life’s Challenges
Compassion. We all know it’s an important part of the therapeutic alliance. But recent advances in psychological research, theory and practice have suggested that compassion may be one of the most important processes in psychotherapeutic effectiveness.
Over the course of eight, two-hour, interactive, webinar-style sessions, you will explore how the science of compassion can be used to enhance and expand clinical work. This training is specifically designed to help Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and other behavior therapy practitioners deepen their understanding and practice of compassion focused treatment of anxiety and mood disorders.
This online workshop will take you on an experiential journey into the foundations of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). You will discover compassionate imagery, meditation practices, and how to apply them in exposure and behavioral activation. These methods can complement and strengthen even a state-of-the-art therapeutic approach.
All sessions of this course will run on Mondays from 1:00pm to 3:00pm Eastern time, USA.
DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON . . .
DR. TIRCH & DR. SILBERSTEIN-TIRCH WILL BE PRESENTING A 2 DAY WORKSHOP
Why not join us in a beautiful part of Brazil to learn about CFT and a range of new directions in the cognitive and behavioral therapies.
Click here for registration and detail: http://www.congressowainer.com.br
Anxiety and chronic worry are major sources of suffering that are reaching epidemic levels around the world and that conventional medical approaches have, at best, a very mixed track record in treating. For thousands of years, global wisdom traditions have known that training the mind and cultivating compassion can be highly effective in helping people face their fears, and a growing body of scientific research supports that view. This workshop with a leading expert in “”Compassion-Focused Therapy”” draws from cutting-edge neuroscience, evolutionary psychology and Buddhist mindfulness methods to teach us innovative, evidence-based meditation, visualization, and cognitive re-framing techniques designed to increase our emotional strength and psychological flexibility. We’ll leave this workshop equipped with an array of powerful new tools and healing perspectives that will permit us to move beyond anxiety and live with renewed meaning, purpose and vitality.
A Full Day Workshop
Sunday, August 6, 10 – 5:30 pm
Members $125/ Nonmembers $145
DETAILS AND REGISTRATION AVAILABLE HERE:
A two day introduction to CFT with CFT founder, Dr. Paul Gilbert, Dr. Dennis Tirch and Dr. Laura Silberstein Tirch. This is a rare opportunity to work with CFT founder Paul Gilbert and our Center for CFT team together in an incredible setting at one of the most important conferences for mindfulness, acceptance and compassion focused therapies.
A PRESENTATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACBS CHAPTER
DETAILS AND REGISTRATION TBA
During this workshop, participants will explore how the science of compassion can be used to enhance and expand our clinical work, using an ACT consistent Compassion Focused Therapy approach. Recent advances in psychological research, theory and practice have suggested that compassion is a significant, active process in psychotherapy effectiveness and personal growth. This one day clinical/experiential workshop is specifically designed to help ACT and other behavior therapy practitioners deepen their understanding and practice of compassion-focused treatment of anxiety and mood disorders. .
Rather than being a soft option, the deliberate activation of Compassion Focused Therapy’s compassionate imagery, meditation practices, and applications in exposure and behavioral activation. These methods can strengthen even a state of the art, ACT approach. Participants will learn how cultivating compassion can undermine fusion with shame based self-criticism, help address the narrowing influence of threat based behavioral patterns, and how the experience of compassionate courage can help to mobilize us to move towards lives of greater meaning and vitality.
A 3 DAY PERSONAL PRACTICE WORKSHOP EXPLORING CFT AND ACT TECHNIQUES THROUGH INTENSIVE EXPERIENTIAL WORK
FULL DETAILS AND REGISTRATION HERE: http://cbttraining.com.au/workshops/experiencing-compassion-focused-act-inside/
This two-day clinical/experiential workshop is specifically designed to help ACT and CBT practitioners deepen their understanding and practice of compassion focused treatment of psychological suffering.
FULL DETAILS AND REGISTRATION AT http://cbttraining.com.au/workshops/739-2/
A ONE DAY WORKSHOP AT THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR COGNITIVE THERAPY. THIS IS A SMALL GROUP TRAINING WITH A MAXIMUM OF 12 PARTICIPANTS.
FULL DETAILS AND REGISTRATION UNDER "WEEKEND WORKSHOPS AT COGNITIVETHERAPYNYC.COM
DR. TIRCH WILL BE PRESENTING A PLENARY DISCUSSION AND WORKSHOP ON COMPASSION AND ACT
FULL DETAILS AND REGISTRATION CAN BE FOUND HERE
http://www.act-italia.org/doceboCms/
In advance of the Intensive CFT retreat training in the Hudson Valley, we will be hosting an intensive CFT online group training and supervision course. This will blend elements of prior courses and supervision groups with a structured curriculum preparing you for further intensive CFT training. Licensed professionals with some prior workshop or supervision experience, and a commitment to CFT training are welcome.
Details of this group will be released January, 2017
Dr. Silberstein-Tirch will be among the experts leading discussions at the ACT Boot Camp in San Diego, California. This event is brought to you by our friends at Praxis Continuing Education.
The Compassionate Mind Foundation host an annual International conference each year. This year's conference is the Foundation's 5th international conference and takes place on 19th-21st October 2016 in Manchester. This year will be a special celebration of the Foundation's 10th Anniversary.
Join us for a range of workshops on Wednesday 19th October and symposia, keynotes and poster presentations on Thursday 20th - Friday 21st October. You can also join us to celebrate our 10th anniversary at our conference dinner on Thursday 20th. There will be opportunities accross the 3 days to meet other delegates, share ideas and develop networks.
Below is more information about the workshops, keynotes and symposia.
For information and registration: http://compassionatemind.co.uk/training/conference
Supercharge your psychotherapy and cultivate your inner wisdom, strength and commitment with Mindful Compassion training this Summer:
This experiential workshop retreat will focus on personal practice, allowing participants to have a direct experience of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), and to benefit from the strength of several core CFT practices.
Together we will directly experience mindfulness and compassion practices drawn from a synthesis of Western therapeutic and Buddhist approaches taught by world renowned psychologist and CFT founder, Dr. Paul Gilbert and Buddhist Psychology and CFT expert, Dr. Dennis Tirch. By integrating mindfulness into the practice of compassion, we will find a step by step approach to cultivating our inner compassionate selves and living our lives with deep purpose and courage.
This workshop will be full of simple, yet powerful, personal practice exercises. This training will give participants a direct experience of how being compassionate towards self and others can transform our minds and lives. We will explore how cultivating mindful compassion helps us to experience more self-warmth, safeness and acceptance of ourselves and others.
Here are some examples of unsolicited and voluntary participant feedback from past workshop/retreats:
"Loved it, loved it, loved it! Relaxed yet rigorous training - loved the interaction with delegates and facilitators. Life changing - empowered by the dynamic tools we have gained, inspired 'to the be the change that I want to see in the world.'"
"Transformative. Nothing will look quite the same, at least for a while"
"Paul is so full of life and wisdom"
"Dennis, I hesitate to say that a workshop can change my life, but this has been a riveting experience. The most meaningful training I've attended in 25 years."
Past versions of this workshop have sold quickly, so early booking is advised.
Registration is 375.00 for the weekend workshop and a Friday evening intensive meeting and Q&A session.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:
Friday 8/19/16 evening meeting 6pm-9pm
Saturday 8/20/16 from 9am-8pm
Sunday 8/21/16 from 9am-5pm
The workshop begins with an evening meeting on Friday, and will continue through a full program - from 9 until 8 on Saturday and 9-5 Sunday. This is not a residential retreat and meals and lodging are not included.
We will spend our retreat time together at The Viceroy Hotel on 57th Street, just off of Central Park. This location will allow you to spend your time off in either New York City, or enjoying the peace and relaxation of Central Park's beautiful surroundings. This is not a residential retreat and meals and lodging are not included. The hotel has provided us a discounted rate which can be found below!
TO REGISTER, PLEASE USE THE PAYPAL BUTTON BELOW OR MAIL A CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO 150 EAST 58TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10155.
PLEASE EMAIL COMPASSIONFOCUSED@GMAIL.COM, AND TELL US SOMETHING OF YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH MINDFULNESS, COMPASSION AND MEDITATION TRAINING, AS WELL AS YOUR AIMS FOR THE WORKSHOP/RETREAT WHEN YOU REGISTER.
The Viceroy Hotel is located at
120 W 57th Street
New York, New York 10019 USA
Phone:+1-212-830-8000
Guestroom Reservations: +1-855–647–1619
Workshop participants are asked to make their own reservations directly with the Hotel’s Reservations Department phone or 1-855-647-1619 or online through the provided website link:
The CMF Viceroy Reservation Here
Please request the Compassionate Mind Foundation block when making reservations to receive the group rate of $215 per night (arrival Friday 8/19 & Check out Sunday 8/21). Reservations must be received by the hotel on or before July 29, 2016.
AN INTENSIVE PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP AT THE ACBS WORLD CONFERENCE IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
For registration and information click here
Dr. Dennis Tirch & Dr. Laura Silberstein Tirch
Dates & Location:
The Westin Seattle, Washington, USA
9am-5:15pm on Tuesday, June 14, 2016
9am-5:15pm on Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Contact Hours/CE credits available: 13
Workshop Description:
During this workshop, participants will explore how the science of compassion can be used to enhance and expand our clinical work, using an ACT-consistent, Compassion Focused Therapy approach. Recent advances in psychological research, theory and practice have suggested that compassion may be a significant, active process in psychotherapy effectiveness. This two day clinical/experiential workshop is specifically designed to help ACT and other behavior therapy practitioners deepen their understanding and practice of compassion focused treatment of anxiety and mood disorders . Participants will learn a new evolutionary model of compassionate flexibility, that is grounded in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), ACT, and elements of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP). Direct, experiential exercises, including a range of compassion focused imagery practices, will invite participants into contact with their compassionate minds. Rather than being a soft option, the deliberate activation of our compassion system can generate the emotional strength and psychological flexibility we need to face life's challenges, and step forward into lives of meaning, purpose and vitality.
Human beings have evolved to have a fast acting, automatically triggered threat detection system that can fire up at a moment’s notice to help us survive. However, the power and efficiency of our threat detection leads to trouble, when a struggle with our feared experiences begins to dominate the ways that we approach our lives. Fortunately, we have also evolved to have powerful allies in facing life’s – our evolved capacity for mindfulness, wisdom and compassionate courage. This workshop will take an experiential journey into the foundations of CFT's compassionate imagery, meditation practices, and applications in exposure and behavioral activation. These methods can compliment and strengthen even a state of the art, ACT approach. Participants will learn how cultivating compassion can undermine fusion with shame based self-criticism, help address the narrowing influence of threat based behavioral patterns, and how the experience of compassionate courage can help to mobilize us to move towards lives of greater meaning and vitality.
About Dennis Tirch, Ph.D.:
Dr. Tirch is the Founder and Director of The Center for Compassion Focused Therapy in New York and President of The Compassionate Mind Foundation USA. Dr. Tirch is an author of 6 books, and numerous chapters and peer reviewed articles, including "The ACT Practitioner’s Guide to The Science of Compassion" and "Buddhist Psychology and CBT: A Clinician's Guide” with Dr. Laura Silberstein and colleagues. He has served on the faculty of Cornell Weill Medical College and Albert Einstein Medical School. Dr. Tirch regularly conducts Compassion Focused ACT (CFACT) and CFT trainings & workshops globally. He is a Diplomate, Fellow & Certified Consultant & Trainer for The Academy of Cognitive Therapy, Founding Fellow and the President of The NYC-CBT Association, & Founding President Emeritus of The New York City Chapter of ACBS. Dr. Tirch is an Associate Editor of The Journal of Contextual Behavioral Therapy.
About Laura Silberstein, Psy.D.:
Laura Silberstein, Psy.D. is the Associate Director of The Center for Compassion Focused Therapy in New York. Dr. Silberstein also serves as a Adjunct Assistant Professor and Consultant at Albert Einstein Medical College. She is the co-author of 3 books including Buddhist Psychology and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, A Clinician’s Guide and The ACT Practitioner’s Guide to The Science of Compassion. Dr. Silberstein completed a 2 year externship at the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, in Manhattan; a pre-doctoral internship at Wyoming State Hospital, and a two year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at the Cognitive Behavioral Institute of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Silberstein has advanced experience, and serves as a consultant and trainer in a range of 3rd Generation behavior therapies including CFT, ACT, and DBT.
Learning Objectives:
The attendee will be able to:
1) Help clients to better accept and effectively respond to anxiety and other difficult emotions; through the activation of their evolved capacity for mindful compassion.
2) Explain and apply the fundamentals of Compassionate Flexibility, including a contextual and evolutionary theory of emotion regulation, attachment, and cognition.
3) Integrate compassion focused methods into ACT-consistent practice
4) Practice and teach compassion focused imagery methods and guided meditations drawn from CFT, Buddhist Psychology and ACT
5) Develop and use of the concept of The Compassionate Self Imagery practice in the treatment of anxiety and depression
6) Adapt a compassion focused approach to evidence based techniques such as exposure and response prevention, defusion, and behavioral activation
7) Assess and formulate a compassion focused case conceptualization for people being treated for anxiety and mood disorders
8) Create and implement compassion focused interventions implementing self-as-process role plays and multiple chair work
9) Describe and apply the Three Circle Model of Emotions from CFT
10) Implement compassion focused interventions in the service of cultivating psychological flexibility
Target Audience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Clinical
Components: Conceptual analysis, Literature review, Experiential exercises, Didactic presentation, Case presentation, Role play
Package Includes: A general certificate of attendance, lunch, and AM & PM coffee/tea break on site.
Click here to Register
A workshop facilitated by Dr. Dennis Tirch
During this workshop on Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), we will explore how the science of compassion can be used to enhance our clinical work. Recent research demonstrates that compassion is a significant, active process in psychotherapy. This experiential workshop is specifically designed to help practitioners deepen their understanding and practice of compassion. Participants will specific imagery and psychotherapy techniques designed to generate the compassionate strength and psychological flexibility we need to face life's challenges.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Apply CFT techniques that help clients to better regulate and tolerate anxiety and other difficult emotions.
Explain the fundamentals of compassion psycholoy, including an evolutionary theory of emotion regulation, attachment, and cognition.
Integrate compassion focused methods into psychotherapy practice.
Utilize The Compassionate Self and Compassionate Other imagery techniques.
Create case conceptualizations and treatment plans utilizing the CFT Three Circle Model of emotional processing.
Apply compassion focused enhancements to exposure and behavioral activation techniques.
Any questions? Please call 802-258-4359.
13 CE Credit Hours
Current psychological research suggests that compassion may be a significant, active process in psychotherapy effectiveness. This two day clinical and experiential workshop will introduce you to compassion-focused therapy (CFT), an evidence-based psychotherapy that makes the compassion process central to clinical work.
In these two fast-paced days, you’ll learn CFT from one of the US’s leading experts in the model. Through direct, experiential exercises, including a range of focused imagery practices, you’ll directly contact your compassionate mind. The deliberate activation of your compassionate mind can generate emotional strength and psychological flexibility necessary for the challenging work of clinical psychotherapy. This workshop will take you on an experiential journey into compassionate imagery, meditation practice, and effective means for training our minds in fierce compassion and mindful courage. You’ll learn how cultivating compassion can undermine the impact of anxiety, worry and shame based self-criticism and explore how CFT methods can help address the narrowing influence of threat-based behavioral patterns. As the end of the workshop, you’ll have a valuable set of skills you can use to help your clients move towards lives of greater meaning and vitality.
Presented by Praxis Continuing Eductation
https://www.praxiscet.com/events/science-and-practice-compassion
