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Compassionate Mind Training (CMT)

Compassionate Mind Training (CMT)

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Compassionate Mind Training (CMT) is an eight-week, practical skills building course designed to help people cultivate their compassionate mind. The course was developed by Drs Chris Irons and Charlie Heriot-Maitland, drawing on compassion focused therapy, a comprehensive psychotherapy approach developed by Professor Paul Gilbert, and offering psycho-education regarding the human mind, the nature of our suffering, and how to cultivate the evolved human motivations and skills of compassion: to be sensitive to suffering in ourselves and others, and committed to trying to alleviate and prevent it.

CMT is an evidence-based approach, first evaluated by Gilbert and Procter (2006) in their seminal paper Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self-criticism: Overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach, and further developed and tested over the years, most recently evaluated by Irons and Heriot-Maitland (2020) in the paper Compassionate Mind Training: An 8-week group for the general public. CMT has been found to increase participants compassion and self-compassion, self-reassurance, and positive emotions and psychological well-being, as well as reduce self-criticism, shame, depression, anxiety, and psychological distress.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  • Learn about the definition of compassion
  • Explore the three flows of compassion: for others, from others and for self
  • Discover the role of mindfulness in compassion
  • Use body-based practices to slow and sooth the mind and body
  • Use imagery to cultivate feelings of calmness and safeness
  • Develop an image of your ideal compassionate other
  • Develop, practice and embody your compassionate self
  • Bring your compassionate self to your daily life, acting in helpful ways towards yourself and others, soothing difficult emotions, and finding ways to flourish.

COURSE DETAILS

  • 8 x 2.5 hour group sessions once per week online.
  • Incorporates information sharing, experiential exercises, practical tips, and suggestions for bringing compassion into one’s daily life.
  • CMT is a closed group—no new participants will be able to join once the course has commenced.
  • Course participants will be provided with a PDF workbook, session-by-session, as well as audio recordings of exercises and practices.
  • You will also receive a copy of Stan Steindl's book: The Gifts of Compassion: How to Understand and Overcome Suffering.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERDr Stan Steindl is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice and Director at Psychology Consultants Pty Ltd, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He is co-director of the UQ Compassionate Mind Research Group. He has over 20 years experience as a therapist, supervisor and trainer, and works with clients from a compassion focused therapy perspective.

His PhD examined combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder and comorbid alcohol dependency, and he continues to work in the areas of trauma and addiction, as well as having a general clinical practice. His research interests are in the areas of motivation, compassion and compassion-based interventions, and especially the role of cultivating compassion and self-compassion in the context of trauma, shame, self-criticism and clinical disorders, as well as promoting psychological wellbeing.

He is the author of The Gifts of Compassion: How to Understand and Overcome Suffering, as well as the accompanying book The Gifts of Compassion: Personal Practice Workbook.

Website: www.stansteindl.com | Facebook: @drstansteindl |  Instagram: @dr_stan_steindl | Twitter: @stansteindl | YouTube: Compassion in a T-Shirt

COURSE COSTSGeneral Admission: $600.00 (includes GST)

Special Offer: If you provide a letter of referral from a medical or other health practitioner you will receive a discount of $100, making the general admission $500 (includes GST). Note, CMT is not covered by Medicare rebates, so we do not require a 'GP Mental Health Care Plan'. A simple letter of referral from a health practitioner will suffice. If you would like to provide your health practitioner with our CMT brochure to help them with their referral, visit here. Please email cmt@psychologyconsultants.com.au with a scanned copy of the referral letter and we will provide you with a discount code.

FEES OFFSET SCHOLARSHIPWe invite you to apply for a Fees Offset Scholarship to attend Compassionate Mind Training (CMT) with Dr Stan Steindl, covering your CMT registration fee. We support one participant per CMT course who wishes to attend CMT, but who has limited funds to do so. Click here for more information about the Fees Offset Scholarship and how to apply. Alternatively, feel free to email cmt@psychologyconsultants.com.au for more information.

CANCELLATIONSFull refunds are available up until 24 hours prior to the commencement of the CMT course. There will be a $50 cancellation fee within 24 hours prior to commencement of the CMT course.

DATE

Sessions will be 6 - 8.30pm Thursdays (Australian Eastern Standard Time - AEST), weekly for 8 weeks. For time conversions, we recommend this website. Type in your location and convert from Brisbane, Australia. Below are the start and end dates of the 8 week CMT course.

Thursday 2 May 2024 - Thursday 20 June 2024

CMT is conducted online via Zoom. The Zoom link and password will be provided in your registration confirmation email.

Cost: $600.00

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