Compassion Focused Staff Support in Birmingham (October 2024)

Timings and Registration

This workshop will be 21 hours for towards your CPD, and you will receive a certificate of attendance shortly after the workshop.‍

All timings are according to British Summer Time (BST)

Day One: 10:00 - 17:00

Day Two: 09.30 - 17:00

Day Three: 09.30 - 16.30‍

Pricing

Early Bird Rate: £425.00 (expires 10th July 2024)

Standard Rate: £475.00

Student Rate: £399.00

For those in difficult financial circumstances, who may struggle to afford this price, please contact [email protected]

About This Course‍

It is understood that staff stress and illness can compromise the effectiveness of teams and within organisations. Teams that are operating in conditions of threat can lead of staff having lower levels of compassion to self and others (Henshall, 2015). Whereas there is growing evidence to show that explicit development and practice of compassion can provide a useful way of helping staff to manage their own distress, be less reactive to social threats and reduce experience of self-criticism, anxiety and depression (Lucre & Taylor, 2020; Allen & Leary, 2010; Arch et al, 2014; Breines et al, 2015; Gilbert, 2005; Neff et al, 2007).

It is already becoming clear that there will be an immeasurable human impact of this global pandemic on health care workers, service providers and on us all. Compassion and Compassion Focused Approaches have a uniquely helpful and hopeful offering in this context of understanding our shared common humanity and propensity for threat focused emotional processing and the understandable survival strategies which emerge in this context. As we are encouraged to keep a social distance from others, CFA offers an alternative way of formulating this as ‘safe relating’ which encourages us to consider how we remain connected to others in conditions of safeness (Paul Gilbert's lecture series)

In light of this need for a human response, services are already preparing immediate and medium-term trauma informed approaches. Many clinicians are being asked to offer reflective practice and general support to staff in general hospitals in the hope of ameliorating the inevitable trauma, burn out and vicarious trauma.

These responses will often be offered remotely, either by phone or using online formats. This online training offers an introduction to Compassion Focused Staff Support (CFSS) with a combination of experiential learning, experiential CFSS groups and the option of supervision to support clinicians who wish to either incorporate these into their current practice and / or to developed specific CFSS interventions.

Workshop Information

This workshop will offer a model for developing and delivering compassion focused staff support initiatives to a variety of staff teams. This will include practical resources and ideas for establishing these groups and working with the blocks to compassion in these settings.

This workshop has been designed for practitioners, therapists and clinicians who wish to develop their knowledge and practical skill in developing and delivering Compassion Focused staff support groups and also utilising compassion focused concepts within a supervisory framework. The day can also be steered according to the particular needs of the group.

The three days will be highly experiential with a mixture of role play demonstrations opportunities for practice, multimedia and small groups discussions. Personal practice is an essential underpinning to this work and therefore will form an integral part of this workshop with the opportunity for personal exploration of compassion and the practices which accompany the model.

Follow Up Resources

Access to a Sound Cloud with personal practice sessions for personal and use with the groups.

Resource pack including preparatory PowerPoints sessions for group members.

Relevant literature relating to CFSS.

Access to an ongoing monthly online CFSS supervisory group to support the development and maintenance of CFSS groups.‍

Dr. Kate Lucre is a Birmingham based Compassion Focused Therapist and Supervisor specialising in the use of CFT for complex attachment and relational trauma for groups and individual. She is the supervision coordinator for the Compassionate Mind Foundation and also runs workshops for the Foundation and across the UK on CFT for Groups and Compassion Focused Staff Support and Supervision. Kate offers CFT supervision in groups and individually, including a monthly international Supervision Group for therapists involved in the provision of CFT groups. She has published the only data on Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy for people who would attract a diagnosis of personality disorder and has recently completely a 7 year research program evaluating a 12 month CFGP program.-. Kate is also involved in a number of UK wide research projects developing and evaluating Compassion Focused Staff Support Initiatives. You can see some of her past presentations at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katherine_Lucre2. You can see an interview with Kate Lucre here.

Host or Publisher The Compassionate Mind Foundation