Compassion Focused Therapy Skills 10 Week PROFESSIONALS ONLY

In this 10 week online group for CFT skills development, helping professionals will deepen concepts, skills, exercises and perspectives from the research based approach of Compassion Focused Therapy to use in addressing clients' self-criticism, perfectionism and shame.

Weekly CFT Professional Skills Group Themes:

1. Tricky Brain

2. 3 Motivational Systems & their Function

3. Attachment, Early Relationships, Safe base/Safe Haven, internalization of caregiver-child relationships, ECR scale

4. Mindfulness and Compassionate Self

5. Flows of Compassion and Barriers (i.e., receiving, giving out, self-to-self)

6. Multiple selves (and somatic exp.)

7. Criticism of self and other, over control

8. Multiple selves - shame and guilt (exiled parts)?

9. Releasing the right to punish and acceptance

10. Compassionate self-leadership

This 10 week CFT Professional Skills group for helping professionals is led by two registered psychologists, Dr. Paul Grunberg C.Psych. (s) (McGill University) and Dr. Kimberly Sogge C.Psych. (Texas A&M) who are colleagues at an Ottawa based practice emphasizing psychological interventions from the Third Wave of psychotherapy, particularly approaches grounded in compassion science and mindfulness practice. Dr. Sogge is former faculty at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Texas A&M College of Medicine, former Chief of Psychology Professional Practice at the Royal, and has over 30 years of experience in the fields of mental health and psychotherapy. Dr. Sogge is a CFT supervisor with the Compassionate Mind Foundation in the UK.

This 10 week CFT Professional Skills group is designed to offer professionals from the fields of psychology, social work, psychotherapy, and medicine a facilitated experience of key Compassion Focused Therapy concepts, skills, and practices specifically focused around presentations of self criticism, perfectionism and shame.

This 10 week CFT Professional Skills group offers a confidential, safe and collegial environment in which helping professionals can deepen and expand their integration of CFT into their work with their clients.

Certificate of Attendance with hours will be awarded upon completion with 80% attendance.

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