Compassion Focused Therapy

Making sense of stress with CFT’s 3 circles by Dr Theresa Dahm

At the launch of Compassionate Minds Australia in Byron Bay 16th June 2015. See more at: http://www.cbttraining.com.au/ Produced by Healthy North Coast and UCRH

Professor Paul Gilbert in conversation with Mick O’Regan

Earlier this year Professor Paul Gilbert gave a talk in Lismore on strengthening the mind through the power of self-compassion.

Professor Paul Gilbert on Strengthening the mind through the power of self-compassion

Dr Chia-Ying Chou on CFT for hoarding issues: a 20 week series

Dr Stan Steindl’s Compassion on a T-Shirt series

Mindful Self-Compassion videos

Kristen Neff on overcoming objections to self-compassion

Kristen Neff on mindfulness and self-compassion

Kristen Neff on the three components of self-compassion



Kristy Arbon on mindful self-compassion

Compassion and Neuroscience

Human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry, but research by Dacher Keltner finds that we are hard-wired to be kind. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1fUWHyY How Power Makes People Selfish: https://youtu.be/0vvl46PmCfE Greed is good. War is inevitable. Whether in political theory or popular culture, human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry.

Dacher Keltner on the neuroscience of kindness




http://www.weforum.org/ Can training our brains help make the world a better place? Tania Singer from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences thinks it can. She's a social neuroscientist and psychologist who says the brain's plasticity means it can be trained to make us less selfish and more compassionate.

Professor Tania Singer on the neuroscience of compassion




Professor Al Kaszniak's talk to the UA Psychology Department (not to AMRIG) on 4/2/10.


Professor Al Kazniak’s series of talks on Empathy, Compassion and Neuroscience




General Compassion Topics

Professor Paul Gilbert OBE interviews Dr Dan Siegel on Intraconnectedness and Mindfulness: Creating a Compassionate World

David Roland on harnessing suffering for positive change






Growth and resilience are not the same. Growth is the transformation of our Self, our thoughts, actions and life priorities. Resilience is the courage to rea...

David Roland on how reaching out is an act of resilience

What can we do to prime ourself for posttraumatic growth should a future life crisis occur? Developing connections with a wide circle of people, including th...

David Roland on post-traumatic growth

The expert companion is someone who walks alongside the other not dictating where they should go or how they should feel, validating their experience. Hearin...

David Roland on how to be an expert companion to someone after a life crisis

In this mini-documentary, David describes how the suffering he experienced from PTSD and stroke led him to take up dancing for brain health. In time, his dan...

David Roland on dancing for joy

Empathy and Compassion in Society gives professionals a new perspective on the human capacity to cultivate empathy and compassion. - The latest research on empathy and compassion - Tools to cultivate these social skills in our professional life - Case studies of organisations and public institutions http://compassioninsociety.org/

Daniel Goleman on leadership and compassion