Super-charge your CFT
Building compassion into every aspect of your therapy
Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is a revolutionary approach to therapy that has gained widespread recognition in the current era of high stress, self-criticism, anxiety, and depression. CFT is a transformative therapy that offers individuals a new perspective on themselves and their lives. This therapy draws from a range of fields, including evolutionary science, affective neuroscience, attachment theory, and behaviourism, to help individuals tackle emotional difficulties and improve their mental well-being. Through its emphasis on compassion and kindness, CFT encourages individuals to reframe their lives and transform their relationship with themselves and others. This workshop is particularly aimed at intermediate-level practitioners who seek to help individuals develop a greater sense of self-compassion and resilience in the face of emotional challenges.
About this workshop
Most CFT training teaches you exercises. This workshop gives you a framework for bringing compassion into every part of the therapeutic interaction. Russell Kolts teaches it through SMST (support, model, shape, train). You’ll learn how to set the stage for compassion to arise in your clients, how to teach it implicitly by modelling it yourself, how to shape it step by step, and how to use compassionate-mind training practices to build your clients’ compassionate capacities.
Russell is a warm, feet-on-the-ground practitioner who knows both CFT and ACT inside out. He brings plenty of practical, tried and tested skills, and you’ll be able to use them with clients straight away.
He introduces each intervention briefly and gives specific suggestions for how to implement it. You then pause the recording and try the technique yourself, on your own or with a colleague. He also talks through the obstacles you’re likely to meet and how to work with them.
Who would benefit from this workshop?
This workshop suits mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurse practitioners and licensed mental health counsellors. You’ll get the most from it if you’ve already completed introductory CFT training. If you’re new to CFT, start with our on-demand recording, CFT in practice.
What you will gain
- A framework for organising your CFT work, so compassion runs through the whole session and doesn’t wait for the exercise slot.
- Ways to model compassion in how you work with clients, so they absorb it from you as well as from the techniques.
- A step-by-step approach to shaping your clients’ capacity for compassionate coping.
- Several compassionate-mind training practices you can bring to your next client session.
Group booking discounts
Contextual Consulting offer discounts for groups of people from the same organisation e.g. an NHS Trust, that does not have a contract arrangement with us.
Please email us here to arrange a group discount or find out more about our CPD contracts here.
APA psychologists: This program is sponsored by Contextual Consulting and is approved for 7 CE credits for psychologists. Contextual Consulting is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Contextual Consulting maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Nationally certified counselors: This workshop is available for 7 credit hours. Contextual Consulting Ltd. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7578.
To find out more, including attendance requirements and how to access your certificate, go to our continuing education information page.
Contextual Consulting is committed to the identification and resolution of potential conflicts of interest in the planning, promotion, delivery, and evaluation of continuing education. Potential conflicts of interest occur when an individual assumes a professional role in the planning, promotion, delivery, or evaluation of continuing education where personal, professional, legal, financial, or other interests could reasonably be expected to impair their objectivity, competence, or effectiveness.
There was no commercial support for this event. None of the planners or presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Booking cancellation (On-demand workshops)
Once access to an on-demand workshop has been granted, bookings are non-refundable. This is because digital content is made available immediately upon purchase.
If you experience any technical issues accessing the workshop, please contact us and we will be happy to help.
Event access and availability
On-demand workshops are available for a specified access period (e.g. 6 months from the date of purchase), as outlined at the time of booking.
We reserve the right to make minor updates to workshop content where necessary. In the unlikely event that a workshop is withdrawn, a suitable alternative or a refund will be offered.
Transfers
On-demand workshop access is intended for the individual who purchased the course and cannot be transferred to another person without prior agreement.
If access has not yet been activated, please contact us and we will do our best to accommodate a transfer request.
After this workshop you will be able to:
- Understand and describe how to use the therapeutic interaction and compassionate realisations to set the stage for client self-compassion.
- Understand and utilise modelling to teach the client how to work compassionately with challenges.
- Describe how to utilise shaping to help clients gradually build their capacity for compassionate coping.
- Identify several compassionate-mind training practices that can be used to help clients overtly train their compassionate competencies.