NOTE: Please direct any enquiries regarding this event to the workshop organiser, Marie Bloomfield at marie@bloomfieldpsychology.com.au
Date: Monday 10th October. - Monday 14th November 2022
Time: 11:00 am -1:00 pm AEDT (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra)
Location: Event Online- Webinar- Live weekly meetings and sessions are video recorded
Price: Early bird (19th September) $320.00 ~ Regular $380.00
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Further information is available here
Presenters: Marie Bloomfield, Clinical Psychologist and John Julian, Social Worker, both Compassion-Focused Therapy/Compassion Mind Training and Senior Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teachers
CFT 1: Essentials of Compassion-Focused Therapy
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
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 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