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Exploring CFT with Professor Paul Gilbert OBE

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Level
Intermediate
Price
£329
Duration
3
days
Dates
September 24, 2025
September 26, 2025
Exploring CFT  with Professor Paul Gilbert OBE

Registration

This workshop will be 19.5 hours towards your CPD, you will receive a certificate of attendance shortly after the workshop via email. Handouts will be sent via email to be brought to the workshop. There will be no formal registration, you will be placed in a waiting room once you click on the link and the CMF Team will add you to the meeting.

Level

Intermediate

Workshop timings (UK BST)

09.30 – 16.00‍ each day

Pricing

Standard Rate: £329.00

For those in difficult financial circumstances, who may struggle to afford this price, please contact hello@compassionatemind.co.uk

About this Course

The compassionate mind foundation is now into its fourth year of running a one-year British Psychological Society endorsed diploma. This facilitates in depth learning of CFT with international trainers and with regular supervision. The diploma begins with a three-day exploration of CFT orientated to the diploma.

Due to popular interest and demand we have decided to open this workshop to those with some experience of CFT and at least 3 years post qualification experience working in the capacity of counselling or psychotherapist. Some experience of using CFT would be an advantage. You will be joining the current cohort of trainees

The workshop will:

Explore evolutionary, biopsychosocial and integrative approaches to mental health difficulties and intervention, and the nature of compassion including insight into the biopsychosocial effects of compassion cultivation on mental health and prosocial behaviour

Outline how the three challenges of life (to protect, acquire resources-control, and rest) are linked to three types of emotion regulation and how compassion motivation can harmonise these systems

Outline the basic algorithm of compassion as 1. Being sensitive to distress and suffering in self and others and; 2. working out how to be helpful. These are supported with competencies such as empathy, distress tolerance, and behavioural engagement.

How compassion processing is linked to attachment systems and how they are recruited into therapeutic interventions

Online via Zoom

Suggested readings:

  • Petrocchi, N., Ottaviani, C., Cheli, S., Matos, M., Baldi, B., Basran, J. K., & Gilbert, P. (2023). The impact of compassion focused therapy on positive and negative mental health outcomes: Results of a series of meta-analyses. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.

APA PsycNet FullTextHTML page

  • Evolution and compassion focused therapy

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586161/full

  • Bipolar paper

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.841932/full

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.841932/full#supplementary-material

  • Our new therapy book

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Compassion-Focused-Therapy-Clinical-Applications/dp/0367476908/ref=sr_1_4?crid=A1A43M873V72&keywords=compassion+focused+therapy&qid=1640885583&s=books&sprefix=compassion+foc%2Cstripbooks%2C37&sr=1-4

This course is for

Mental Healthcare Practitioners
Psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, nurses, psychiatrists and other mental health professions
Healthcare Professionals
Those working within the healthcare profession
Clinical Supervisors

Meet your instructor(s)

Prof Paul Gilbert OBE

Prof Paul Gilbert OBE

Clinical Psychologist

FAQs

Is this workshop going to be recorded?

No, as this is a supervision workshop and delegates will be discussing sensitive matters, this workshop will not be recorded. For that reason it is essential that delegates attend this workshop live. Any non-attendees will not receive a certificate.

My employer will be paying for this course. Can you arrange for an invoice?

Yes, towards the bottom of the page under the 'prices' section you will find a link to download a booking form for this workshop. Please fill this in and email to Binita.Shah@compassionatemind.co.uk

Will I get a certificate of attendance?

All attendees will received a certificate upon completion of the course. This will be emailed to you, so please ensure that your details are correct on registration.

Our staff will take a register on each day of the workshop and any non-attendees will not receive a certificate. If you are unable to attend for any reason, please get in touch at hello@compassionatemind.co.uk

When will I receive the login details?

All delegates signed up to the workshop will receive the joining links, instructions, handouts and any extra resources and information via email. We send these roughly a week before the workshop start date.

What if I am unable to attend?

If you find you are unable to attend this course, please email our admin team via hello@compassionatemind.co.uk as soon as possible. You will be given the option to transfer to another course (within 12 months). Refunds are available if cancellation occurs no less than one month before the start of the course, although we will consider exceptional circumstances.

Prices

If you wish to book via invoice, please click here to download our workshop booking form.

Terms and conditions


All places booked for our event, must be paid for prior to attending the event unless pre-agreed with management. Please note that we cannot confirm your place until we have received payment.

Should you be unable to attend the event, please contact our admin team as soon as possible via hello@compassionatemind.co.uk. Refunds, less the Eventbrite administration fee, will be made if cancellations are received in writing up to one month before the event. Any cancellations received after this time will not be eligible for a refund, although we will consider exceptional circumstances.  While refunds for failure to attend cannot be made, you can transfer your event fee to a future event that will take place within 12 months of your booking without an additional penalty.

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.