Compassion focused therapy, or CFT, is often considered one of the "third wave CBT" therapies. This video will ask, "Is CFT a third wave CBT?" And the answer may surprise you. I am very keen to hear your thoughts, comments, and disagreements!

Episode 8 of Compassion 180: Three Minute Gifts of Compassion.

I am a lover of Star Wars! And every time I watch something new from the Star Wars universe I also learn something new! This time some compassionate wisdom from the recent Obi Wan Kenobi series!

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Episode 6 of Compassion 180: Three Minute Gifts of Compassion.

I was brought up to believe in the power and goodness of being compassionate towards others. Helping, healing…compassion…are in the blood! But it flows in three directions. It takes courage to be compassionate towards others. It can be difficult and distressing to work with suffering. And it takes courage to be compassionate towards ourselves. Let’s face it, that means bringing awareness to our own suffering. And it takes courage to open ourselves up to receiving compassion from others. But it can be so important to do so for the sake of our own wellbeing.

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Center for Mindful Self-Compassion https://centerformsc.org/

Dr Kristin Neff https://self-compassion.org/

Dr Chris Germer https://chrisgermer.com/

Professor Paul Gilbert https://www.compassionatemind.co.uk/

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Compassion focused therapy (CFT) was developed to help people who experience high levels of shame and self-criticism, and has been found to be effective in reducing these difficult aspects of human suffering across a range of presenting problems. Adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse can experience very painful shame, as well as self-hating self-criticism, which can also perpetuate on going symptoms of post-traumatic stress. However, there hasn’t been a systematic investigation of CFT as an intervention for survivors of childhood sexual abuse…until now! In this video I discuss our recent University of Queensland study, spearheaded by the talented and compassionate clinician-researcher, Dr Lisa McLean, in which she and myself, along with Dr Matthew Bambling, carried out a preliminary investigation into group-based CFT for adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

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ARTICLES MENTIONED:

McLean, L., Steindl, S.R. & Bambling, M. (2022). Compassion Focused Group Therapy for Adult Female Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: a Preliminary Investigation. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01837-3

Au, T. M., Sauer-Zavala, S., King, M. W., Petrocchi, N., Barlow, D. H., & Litz, B. T. (2017). Compassion-based therapy for trauma-related shame and posttraumatic stress: Initial evaluation using a multiple baseline design. Behavior Therapy, 48(2), 207–221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2016.11.012

Lucre, K. M., & Corten, N. (2013). An exploration of group compassion-focused therapy for personality disorder. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 86(4), 387–400. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.2012.02068.x

Naismith, I., Ripoll, K., & Pardo, V. M. (2020). Group compassion-based therapy for female survivors of intimate-partner violence and gender-based violence: A pilot study. Journal of Family Violence, 36(2), 175–182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-019-00127-2

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Episode 4 of Compassion 180: Three Minute Gifts of Compassion. We can often get all caught up in threat system activation. Usually, this means an internalising mindset and a particular body and brain pattern. The compassionate self also has a particular body and brain pattern, and we can access this through memories of compassion, times when we, perhaps spontaneously, were compassionate towards another person. Let's give it a try!

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Episode 4 of Compassion 180: Three Minute Gifts of Compassion. "Safety" and "safeness" are defined very differently in compassion focused therapy. Not that one is better than the other, or one is preferable over the other. Rather, they are different and come along with very different feelings, thoughts, behaviours and motivations. Let me know what you think of the difference!

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Episode 4 of Compassion 180: Three Minute Gifts of Compassion.

What is mindfulness and how does it relate to compassion?

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To watch Jon Kabat-Zinn speak about mindfulness, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXFxi2ZXT0

To watch James Baraz speak about mindfulness, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3-VaV4JpHY&t=15s

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Episode 3 of Compassion 180: Three Minute Gifts of Compassion.

In Episode 3 we discuss a fundamental compassionate insight, key to cultivating compassion for others and for ourselves. And we "go to the movies" in order to discover exactly what this key insight is!

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Episode 2 of Compassion 180: Three Minute Gifts of Compassion.

In episode 2 we discuss compassion focused therapy's Three Circle Model of Emotion Regulation: threat, drive and soothing-affiliative systems. They all evolved to help our species survive. And they all come with trade-offs. But this is a foundational model in CFT, and one that we will often refer back to, learning skills and strategies to get the three systems back into balance!

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Episode 1 of Compassion 180: Three Minute Gifts of Compassion.

In this episode we discuss the topic of our "tricky brains"; brains that were designed for us by evolution, not designed by us; old brain motives, emotions and behavioural urges; new brain higher order functions; and the difficult old brain-new brain loops of the mind that can cause a lot of suffering.

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