This workshop will offer 14 hours towards your CPD, and you will receive a certificate of attendance shortly after the workshop via email. Handouts will be sent via email and should be accessible for you during the workshop.
There will be no formal registration, once you join the meeting, you will be placed in a waiting room and a member of the CMF Team will add you to the workshop shortly before it begins.
09.30 – 16.30 both days
Standard Rate: £239.00
For those in difficult financial circumstances, who may struggle to afford this price, please contact hello@compassionatemind.co.uk
This workshop explores some of the different biopsychosocial patterns and presentations of depression and mood linked mental health difficulties. We will explore causal, presentation maintaining and recovery factors. Attention will be given to the way depression can be understood in terms of the four functions of mind: motivation, emotion, cognition and behaviour.
Attention will be given to the micro skills for eliciting information on these four functions in relationship to depression and how to target each of them with compassion to produce therapeutic change. Special attention will be given to working with internal self to self relationships and self in relationship to others. The workshop will cover:
-The nature and the complexity depressed brain states
-The basic conceptual framework of CFT for depression
-Working with feared and avoided emotions particularly grief and anger
-How to use attachment models of caring such a secure base and safe haven to conceptualise intervention
-How to use some of the compassionate mind practises to address specific psychological functions that are problematic for people with depression
-Insight into the nature of compassion
-Awareness of the value of an evolution and biopsychosocial based model for understanding depression
-The link between the evolution of attachment, compassion and depressed states
-How to integrate compassionate mind training in the therapies for depression
Online (via Zoom)
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Gilbert, P. (2009) Overcoming Depression: A Self-Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques (3rd Edition) Robinson.
Gilbert, P. (2013) Attachment theory and compassion focused therapy for depression. In Danquah, A.N & Berry, K (eds). Attachment Theory in Adult Mental Health: A Guide to Clinical Practice. London: Routledge; pp. 35-47
Gilbert, P. (2007) Psychotherapy and Counselling for Depression (3rd edition). London: Sage
Gilbert, P (2001) Depression and stress: A biopsychosocial exploration of evolved functions and mechanisms, Stress: The International Journal of the Biology of Stress, 4, 121-135.
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Kim, J. J., Sherwell, C., Parker, S. L., & Kirby, J. N. (2024). Compassion training influences heart-rate variability within severe depression. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 16, 100760.
Kim, J. J., Sherwell, C., & Kirby, J. N. (2023). Compassion training influences state but not trait level heart-rate variability within severe depression. medRxiv.
Kirby, J. N., Day, J., & Gilbert, P. (2024) Social rank and compassion: How insecure striving, social safeness and fears of compassion mediate the relationship between masculinity, depression and anxiety. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.
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Please note that information about the event and venue are subject to change and cancellation. Occasionally, an event may have to be cancelled or postponed. We will endeavour to inform you of any changes and cancellations as soon as possible via email. We cannot take responsibility for any resulting costs you may incur for travel, accommodation, any other related goods or service or other compensation should an event cancellation occur.
For all face-to-face events, lunch provided at the event will be vegetarian and will include eggs, but no meat or fish (though vegan options will also be made available). However, please advise us of any dietary requirements in the notes section whilst booking online and we will do our best to accommodate your request.
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