Compassion Focused Therapy Intensive
Online Course with Deirdre Fay, LICSW & Yotam Heineberg, PsyD
5 modules of practicing compassion to help build the life you want to live
The things that plague us as human beings are not what we have control over.
Paul Gilbert, founder of Compassion Focused Therapy, is famous for reminding us that "We've got a tricky brain."
We're subject to our evolutionary, cultural, and social conditioning. Our brains are wired for survival. There are many neurons activating our fear systems, flooding our prefrontal cortex, which is why it's that much harder to calm ourselves down when we're stirred up. Our bodies and brain are gene-built and socially choreographed. Potential motives and emotions are built for us not by us. But as Paul says, "It's not our fault...but it is our responsibility." Compassion is what helps us pause when we're triggered so we can shift away from the pain. It's in being with ourselves, with compassion that we find motivation to live a life we want to live.
CFT is an evidence-based therapeutic process to address self-criticism, shame, depression, anxiety, and disordered thinking that comes with PTSD and attachment wounding.
Our CFT Intensive is designed to give you the essential CFT tools to cultivate a more compassionate life, easing the suffering of you and/or your clients.
Knowledge Base
Utilizing research from the pre-eminent compassion researchers, CFT Intensive informs us on optimal ways to rewire the brain
Recorded video calls: Teaching & Practices
Each week for five weeks we'll offer theory and practices to teach you and your clients. The calls, combining teaching and practices, will be available on a content portal so you can take them in even if you miss the live call.
Applying to Life
Our main goal is to support you in using the CFT approach to transform suffering into compasson.
"Deirdre Fay is the real deal. Her compassion and steadiness radiate and heal simply by being. In addition, the practices she's created are inspired, deep, simple to learn, and highly effective. It's no small feat in our world to heal, and earn secure attachment and safe embodiment. Deirdre has both fiercely and gently carved out that path, and guides us all down it -- truly embodying the bodhisattva. Deep gratitude to you, Deirdre, and excitement for more learning in the years ahead!" -Mary Hartley Platt, meditation teacher, Washington D.C.
Deirdre and Yotam talk about their motivation for sharing this deep dive CFT Intensive with you
Whether it's for you personally and/or for you to work with clients, CFT has an enormous body of research around self-criticism, depression, and anxiety.
Topics we'll cover
Clarifying Compassion
Releasing Self-Criticism, Self-Blame & Self-Judgment
* Positive mental health and well-being protects against negative states of mind
* Compassion continuously provides a warm, accepting and kind approach for negative experiences
* Cultivate the resilience mechanism
* Develops an adaptive emotion regulation strategy that protects against depression, anxiety, and stress
* Research basis of Compassion
Threat, Our Tricky Brains & Courage
Building wisdom increases motivation to take responsibility for how our minds work; how we are evolutionarily and culturally influenced
* One of the best skills anyone can learn is develoing the capacity to deal with the shadowy aspects of our minds
* Compassion flow
* De-centering and dis-identification of “self with content”
* Evolutionary model of CFT and the notion of “tricky mind/brain”
Two Psychologies of Compassion
Working with distress tolerance, the Three Circles of Emotions and Nervous System
* Cultivate an observing self
* Learn the drawbacks to mindfulness for trauma
* Release the velcro effect of negative thoughts and feelings
* Generate ease and the feeling of being at rest
* Learn skillful means to teach the client when they get activated
Multiple Selves
Practicing Self Compassion & Finding Balance
* Perspective allows clients to dissolve dissonance
* Develop access to different perspectives
* Activate a quiet, calm, gentle happiness; ease of mind and body that comes when all systems are coherently connected
* Access your natural contented system to protect you from the threat system
* Rewire your facilitated neural network so ease, wellbeing and compassion become native to you
"Yotam has a unique blend of compassionate heart and intellectual understanding of the whole field of compassion. He integrates the science with a felt presence which allows the science to become more than just theory. From the moment I met Yotam I wanted to find a way to collaborate with him -- and to share his wisdom and experience with you. It's a pleasure to have him here teaching this course with me." -Deirdre Fay
Here's what you'll get out of this course
* Simple, easy to use, evidence-based skills
* Interactive training making the core components of meditation accessible
* Coaching and Q&A with Deirdre and Yotam
* Practice steps
* Recordings of all lessons and practices that you can download and use at your own pace
LIVE VIDEO CALLS: RECORDED FOR YOU
* Videos to learn the "concepts" with skills to use with clients in the clinical setting
* All recorded video calls are available for you 24/7 through our content portal - on any connected device AND at your convenience
AUDIOS
* The video calls will also be available as downloadable audio files. They will contain simple, easy to use practices that you can apply in your clinical practice
* All audios are available for you to download 24/7
HANDOUTS
* Handouts in easy-to-read formats that you can download and have available whenever you want
* Useable with your clients or to give them during the session
* All handouts are available for you to download 24/7
PRIVATE COURSE PORTAL
* Where all the videos and audios and handouts are stored for you
* Interact with Deirdre & Yotam, getting feedback and support on using the practices in your clinical practice
* Learn from other professionals and mental health practitioners on the path and gain from their wisdom
Registration Information
$247 early bird registration ends Saturday June 15, 2019
$297 regular price ends Sunday, June 23, 2019
5 CEs pending, through Palo Alto University, for mental health professionals who attend ALL lessons live.
Live lesson dates/times are:
Monday June 24 @ 10am PT/ 1 pm Eastern
Wednesday July 3 @ 10am PT/ 1 pm Eastern
Saturday July 6 @ 10am PT/ 1 pm Eastern
Monday July 8 @ 10am PT/ 1 pm Eastern
Friday July 12 @ 10am PT/ 1 pm Eastern
You won't miss anything! Everything is recorded.
That's the best part of doing the course online -- no travel, no worries about getting every word before the speaker moves on! The material is yours to go over and over. The video lessons (combining teaching and coaching) are recorded and you'll have access to them for a full year. There are also audios and handouts you can download to have forever. If you can't attend the live lesson, send in your question as a comment in the content portal, and we'll respond during the lesson. We've got your back!
We've got your back!
Full refund, no questions asked if we receive your email request by Sunday, June 30, 2019.
Find out who Yotam and Deirdre are
Deirdre Fay, LICSW
Author, Trainer, Educator
Safely Embodied Network
Author of Becoming Safely Embodied Skills Manual,co-authored Attachment Disturbances in Adults (W.W. Norton Publishing, Sept, 2016) and my latest book, Attachment-Based Yoga and Meditation for Trauma Recovery (W.W. Norton Publishing, 2017).
In Deirdre's words, "The work I do arises out of my life. What I know is grounded in my own healing as well as rigorous training as a psychotherapist looking for answers and ways to help others navigate the often difficult terrain of healing trauma and attachment wounds. "
Over the past 25 years Deirdre has facilitated workshops and trainings nationally and internationally, as well as offering courses online,
Yotam Heineberg, PsyD
Collaborating Scientist Clinical Supervisor, Palo Alto University
Dr. Yotam Heineberg is a licensed clinical psychologist and a clinical faculty member at Palo Alto university’s Gronowski Center, where he offers supervision, clinical and didactic psychotherapy training in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), and other compassion focused approaches to healing and growth.
Dr. Heineberg is also a collaborating scientist at Stanford University with the Center for Compassion and Altruism, Research and Education (CCARE), where he develops various compassion programs to support personal and collective resilience, as well as compassion for self and others. He also designs and delivers compassion-based burnout reduction programs that support nurses, clinicians, leaders and patients in large hospital settings.
Dr. Heineberg completed his doctorate at the PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. consortium at Palo Alto University, and his post-doctoral training at Stanford University’s CCARE, during that time he trained with Professor Paul Gilbert, who developed the CFT model in the UK. He lives in San Francisco, runs a private practice and offers workshops nationally and internationally.
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