The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter ACBS is proud to present

CFT in Practice:

An Introduction to 

Compassion Focused Therapy

with

Russell Kolts, Ph.D.

A 2-Day In-Person Experiential Training

Friday October 25 and Saturday October 26, 2024

Location: The Grove Building

1727 Martin Luther King Jr. Way

Oakland, CA

12 CEs for Psychologists, LCSWs, LMFTs and LPCCs

(APPROVED)

The California Board of Behavioral Sciences has designated approval agencies, such as the American Psychological Association. Providers who have APA approval can offer CE Certificates to BBS Licensees (LCSW, MFT and LPCC) and those CEs can be used for license renewal.

Professionals licensed in other states should check their respective CE requirements.

Participants must attend the training in its entirety to receive CEs

Course Description:

Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) is a form of psychotherapy that draws upon evolution science, affective neuroscience, attachment therapy, and behaviorism in assisting individuals who suffer with emotional difficulties. Utilizing mindfulness, the purposeful cultivation of compassion, and a host of treatment strategies such as imagery, chair-work, breath-body work, and behavioral and thought experiments, CFT was developed to assist clients who struggle with issues of shame and self-criticism. Because its theoretical basis draws from multiple bodies of science, CFT can sometimes be challenging to grasp initially. In this two-day training, participants will learn a way to organize CFT into a set of layered processes and practices that will allow them to systematically understand, train, and begin to implement the practices of CFT.  Additionally, participants will gain exposure to a number of core CFT concepts and techniques and will explore how to implement them through experiential practice.

Target Audience:

This workshop is appropriate for: 

• Mental health professionals including social workers, counselors, psychiatrists and psychologists
  
• Clinicians who are new to CFT or who have already had some training 

Course Objectives:

After attending this training you will be able to:

1. Articulate the layered processes and practices targeted in Compassion-Focused Therapy, and how they work together to set a context for the cultivation of self-compassion.
2. Describe the roles of the therapist in Compassion-Focused Therapy.
3. Articulate several compassionate realizations in helping clients work with shame and self-attacking.
4. Describe the three-circles model of emotion.
5. Describe at least 3 approaches to help guide clients in exploring the ways that different motives and emotions organize their mental experience.
6. Describe how to guide clients in identifying and exploring problematic old-brain/new-brain loops in maintaining threat experiences.
7. Describe approaches to facilitate client exploration of the social shaping of their challenging emotions and behaviors.
8. Apply Soothing-Rhythm Breathing to help clients work with emotions.
9. Articulate how compassion can be applied in working with challenging emotions.
10. Introduce and facilitate compassionate-self work.
11. Describe the multiple-selves exercise

Presenter:

Russell Kolts, Ph.D.

Russell Kolts, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Eastern Washington University.  An internationally-recognized trainer in Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) who regularly conducts CFT trainings around the world, Dr. Kolts is the author of a number of books applying CFT, including CFT Made Simple, Experiencing Compassion-Focused Therapy from the Inside Out, The Compassionate Mind Guide to Managing Your Anger, and The Anger Workbook.

Fees:

Join the Chapter and get the member discount

for this training and for future trainings in the next year

https://sfba-acbs.wildapricot.org/Join-The-Chapter

Included in the fees: 12 hours of instruction, handouts, coffee/tea and snacks

Training Schedule

Day 1:  

8:30 - 9:00 Check In (no CE)

9:00 -10:30 Introduction; What is compassion and why is it important (1.5 hrs)

10:30 – 10:45 Break (No CE)

10:45 – 12:00 Roles of the Therapist in CFT (1.25 hrs)

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch (No CE)

1:00 – 2:30 Compassionate Realizations: The Evolutionary Model (1.5 hrs)

2:30 – 2:45 Break (No CE)

2:45 – 4:30 Compassionate REalizations: The Social Shaping of the Self (1.75 hrs)

Day 2: 

9:00 -10:30 Compassionate Awareness - Mindfulness (1.5 hrs)

10:30 – 10.45 Break (No CE) 

10.45 – 12.00 The Compassionate Self (1.25 hrs)

12.00 – 1.00 Lunch (No CE)

1.00 – 2.30 5 Working with the Compassionate Self (1.5 hrs)

2.30 - 2.45 Break (No CE)

2.45 – 4.30 Multiple Selves work; Closing (1.75 hrs)

Disclosures:

The costs of this workshop are completely supported by participant fees

Refund Policy
If you cancel your registration:
21 or more days before the date of the event, we’ll refund all of your registration fee or give you credit to a future event;
20 to 7 days before the event, we’ll refund 75% of your fee;
Fewer than 7 days before an event, we’ll refund 50% of your fee.
If you don’t cancel before the event begins, we can’t refund your fees, but we’ll give you a credit toward a future event in the amount of 50% of your registration fee. If we cancel an event for any reason, of course, we’ll refund all of your registration fees. Continuing-education certification fees can be refunded until the day before the event. They become non-refundable on the first day of the event. Continuing-education certification purchased at an event is non-refundable.

If you have any questions about the event please contact Kari Wolman Killianey at kari.killianey@gmail.com