Another opportunity to attend this popular workshop first offered in January 2023.

Workshop summary.

In this AD4E workshop Prof Paul Gilbert will explore the evolutionary basis of compassion focused therapy and how compassion can be used to address many forms of mental health difficulty particularly those associated with shame and self criticism.

The workshop will indicate how these processes are typically reactions to contextual and environmental influences impacting on the way our brains evolved to process threat. Helping people understand the evolved dispositions to mental health difficulties can be very helpful in helping people to , de centre, de-shame and de-pathologise as well as seeing the value of developing a compassionate mind to themselves and others

This workshop is aimed at counsellors and psychotherapists but is open to anyone who has an interest in non pathologising ways of supporting people.

CPD cert 2 hours.