Dr Deborah Lee
Developing self compassion through self practice
7th July 2023
09.30 - 16.30 (UK): £80 +VAT
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Lead For Compassionate Leadership Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Honorary Associate Professor, University College London
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Developing Self Compassion through Self Practice
One day workshop
7th July 2023; 09.30 - 16.30
£80+VAT
Hello fellow Compassion Focussed Therapists,
Come and join us for a introductory day to self practice. CFT helps people who struggle with self criticism and feelings of shame. The practice is rooted in the scientific theory of social mentalities and looks at the function of behaviours in our social worlds.
A core part of being a compassion focused therapist is self practice. Therapists can also struggle with self criticism, social comparison and feeling less than. So developing self-awareness and compassionate self practice can not only help our own wellbeing but also keep our compassionate motivations at the heart of our work. It also enables us to experience the therapy from the inside out.
As therapists, we are committed to helping those in mental distress to find ways to alleviate suffering. This can be both rewarding and challenging as we engage with their stories of distress, pain and loss. It important to look after ourselves and keep ourselves emotionally fit for the benefit to ourselves, loved ones and our clients.
We will use the practices of compassion focussed theory (Gilbert, 2009, 2014;) and the practice of developing Mindful Compassion (Gilbert & Choden, 2013), such as mindful attention, breathe work, chair work, guided imagery exercises and enhancing self awareness through formulation.
So please do come and join us for this introductory day, where we will touch briefly on theory to set up self practice exercises and compassion habits.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Dr Deborah Lee
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Compassionate Leadership
£80.00
ABSTRACT
Recently there has been a rise of interest in bringing Compassion focused practices to the workplace in order to improve team functioning and wellbeing. The concept of compassionate leadership brings leadership into every grade and domain in the workplace so that regardless of grade or seniority compassionate leadership is everyone’s business. Over the last three years, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has developed and rolled out a compassionate leadership programme and has trained over 1500 of its staff, integrated it into its excellent managers programme and made it part of new starters induction.
The workshop uses the underlying theoretical principles of Compassionate Mind Training as a framework to explore self- compassion and team compassion. It allows participants to explore inhibitors and facilitators to compassionate practice in the workplace, thereby identifying those functioning in a threat focused team. During the workshop participants are encouraged to consider and commit to more compassion team cohesion.
Objectives of Training
To explore compassion as a motivation
To develop skills to enhance compassionate practices through self-awareness and compassionate habits
To develop compassionate motivations in our leadership and management styles and learn how to promote compassionate team culture
To identify team functioning from a threat motivation and to develop tools to improve the emotional environment through compassionate team pledges.
TO ACCESS ON DEMAND WORKSHOP
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REFERENCES
Christiansen, A., O'Brien, M. R., Kirton, J. A., Zubairu, K., & Bray, L. (2015). Delivering compassionate care: the enablers and barriers. British Journal of Nursing, 24(16), 833-837.
Crawford, P., Brown, B., Kvangarsnes, M., & Gilbert, P. (2014). The design of compassionate care. Journal of clinical nursing, 23(23-24), 3589-3599.
Gilbert, P., (2009). Introducing Compassion Focused Therapy. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 15 199-208. Doi:10.1192/apt.bp.107.005264
Li, A., Early, S. F., Mahrer, N. E., Klaristenfeld, J. L., & Gold, J. I. (2014). Group cohesion and organizational commitment: protective factors for nurse residents' job satisfaction, compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and burnout. Journal of Professional Nursing, 30(1), 89-99.
Pawson, R., & Tilley, N. (1997). Realistic evaluation. Sage.
Compassion Focused Therapy for shame-based PTSD
On Demand workshop £80.00
Abstract
Those who have experienced interpersonal trauma often experience self- blame, self- loathing, lack of trust, interpersonal difficulties, struggles to regulate threat-based emotions, flashbacks, avoidance and disconnection are prevalent issues to be addressed in therapy. These difficulties are often described as Complex PTSD and at the heart of the distress are fragmented shame fuelled flashbacks/ trauma memories which are maintained by self-attacking thoughts/ self-blame and further perpetuate distress. Evidence based practice such a trauma focused CBT can sometime feel less effective with shame based trauma presentations, where clients report a ‘heart-head’ lag; they don’t feel on an emotional level what they know on an intellectual level(Lee, 2005). Furthermore emerging research demonstrates that experiences of shame and self-criticism respond less well to more traditional CBT approaches (Gilbert, 2009) but benefit more from compassion focused approaches (Kirby,Tellegen & Steindl, 2017, Beaumont, E). These findings, as well as clinical developments in treating shame based trauma and Complex PSTD have emphasised the need to develop compassionate minds as an antidote to shame based states and moreover to bring into shame based memories, a felt sense of compassion (Lee, 2013).
The focus of this workshop will be to explore how to bring compassion to shame- based flashbacks memories as well as learn how to develop compassionate antidotes to shame based trauma narratives, in order to promote recovery and resolution from distressing symptoms of PTSD and Complex PTSD. The approach builds on evidence based practice such as trauma focused CBT (Ehlers & Clarke 2000) and Imagery Recripting (Arntz, 2012)
Compassion focused therapy was developed by Professor Paul Gilbert. The explicit goal is to develop, access and stimulate positive affect associated with self-soothing in the mind and body of the patient in order to promote an inner sense of psychological safeness (Gilbert, 2005, 2009).
Learning Objectives
·To briefly explore evolutionary theory of shame and self-criticism
·To explore CFT theory and practice as applied to shame- based trauma
·To understand how to use CFT to develop compassionate reframes to shame based trauma experiences.
·To learn ways to work directly with shame- based trauma memories using the compassionate soothing system.
Key references
Arntz, A (2012). Imagery Rescripting as a Therapeutic Technique: Review of Clinical Trials, Basic Studies, and Research Agenda.Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, Volume: 3 issue: 2, page(s): 189-208
Ashfield E., Chan, C & Lee, D.A., (2019) Building “A Compassionate Armour”: The Journey to Develop Strength and Self-Compassion in a Group Treatment for Complex PTSD.
Gilbert, P., (2009). Introducing Compassion Focused Therapy. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 15 199-208. Doi:10.1192/apt.bp.107.005264
Kirby, J. N., Tellegen, C.L., Steindl, S.R., (2017). A Meta-Analysis of Compassion-Based Interventions: Current State of Knowledge and Future Directions. Behaviour Therapy, 48, 778-792.
Lee, D.A. (2015) Case conceptualisation in complex PTSD: integrating theory with practice. In Tarrier, N.,( Eds). Case Formulation in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: The treatment of challenging cases. Routledge. London
Lee, D.A., (2013). Compassionate-Mind Guide to Recovering from Trauma and PTSD: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Flashbacks, Shame, Guilt, and Fear New Harbinger, New York.
Lee, D.A (2012). The compassionate mind approach to recovering from trauma, using compassion focussed therapy. Constable & Robinson. London
Waite, F. Knight, M. & Lee, D.A. (2015): Self-Compassion and Self-Criticism in Recovery in Psychosis: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Study. Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 71, 12.
TO ACCESS ON DEMAND WORKSHOP
Click the link to access the workshop recording.
You will go to a secure portal. Just register with your email address and payment.
You will then have instant personal access for 3 months.
Come back any time via this page or save the address in your browser to watch as often as you wish.
About Dr Deborah Lee
Brief Biography
Dr Deborah Lee is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Head of Berkshire Traumatic Stress Service and South Central Complex Treatment Service for Veterans. She is also an honorary Associate Professor at University College London.
Deborah is a founding board member of the Compassionate Mind Foundation and has helped develop compassion focused approaches in clinical settings as well at work- place settings.
She is author of the Compassionate-Mind Guide to Recovering from Trauma and PTSD: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Flashbacks, Shame, Guilt, and Fear (2013). New Harbinger, New York.
Dr Lee has worked in the field of trauma for 28 years and specialises in the treatment of Complex PTSD. Her particular area of clinical and research interest is in shame- based PTSD and self-criticism. She has pioneered the use of developing compassionate resilience as part of a phased based treatment approach to complex PTSD. She has widely contributed to the dissemination of her clinical knowledge through writing and delivering over 150 clinical workshops and talks in North America and Europe.