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Join an enlightening 8-week journey into a groundbreaking integration of compassion-focused therapy (CFT), ACT, and other evidence-based therapies grounded in recent advances in psychological research and evolutionary contemplative psychology.
Led by internationally known experts and compassion-focused ACT originators, Dr. Dennis Tirch and Dr. Laura Silberstein-Tirch, this workshop provides a multifaceted approach to addressing the cognitive, neurobiological, and emotional obstacles that get us most stuck.
While compassion-focused therapy (CFT) and ACT come from different scientific backgrounds, their overlap is striking.
Each element of the CFT model can be related to the ACT hexaflex processes. In fact, compassion is an integral part of psychological flexibility, and vice versa.
You can hardly work on self-as-context or defusion without activating an observer sense of self that is nonjudgmental, and, therefore, more readily compassionate.
Similarly, you can’t work on compassion without honing skills that are central to psychological flexibility, like perspective taking, mindfulness, and acceptance.
Knowing how to purposefully tap into both models and integrate the tools they offer is to the great benefit of therapists as well as the people they serve.
In this innovative workshop, you’ll learn an integrated contextual behavioral method that allows you to harness the power of both compassion and psychological flexibility to transform your clients’ lives.
Join this innovative live online course and learn how to:
- Integrate CFT and ACT for an effective, process-based approach to targeting transdiagnostic challenges
- Utilize the latest findings from affective neuroscience, evolution science, and the science of attachment to enhance your practice
- Empower clients through guided discovery, the therapeutic relationship, specific compassion practices, and interventions designed to build psychological flexibility
- Develop clients’ ability (and your own) to handle difficult emotions and thoughts, engage in meaningful actions, and build a fulfilling life
- Join a rapidly growing community of clinicians trained in compassion-focused acceptance and commitment therapy
Whether you’re new to CFT or ACT or a seasoned practitioner, this workshop offers valuable insights and techniques and a process-based way of organizing your work with clients and supporting compassionate flexibility.