full day workshop

WORKING WITH SHAME AND DEVELOPING SELF-COMPASSION
Paul Gilbert, University Of Derby,  U.K. and  Deborah Lee, Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, U.K.

Princess Hotel Room: Mediterraneo

The workshop will explore the varied presentations of shame and distinguish between internal and external shame. The workshop will help participants distinguish between shame, embarrassment, guilt and humiliation, and think about shame in the therapy relationships itself. Internal shame will be linked to different types of self-criticism and we will explore the importance of a functional analysis of  self-criticism.  The second part of the workshop will focus on what is called compassionate mind training (CMT).  Shame-prone and highly self-critical-people can have problems accessing warmth and soothing, positive affect systems. Recent work suggests, however, that developing self-compassion/soothing can have a useful role in healing  shame and this enables people to feel safer.  CMT interventions is aimed at: developing empathy for one’s own distress, a compassionate focus to thinking and behaviour, and development of the affect of  inner warmth.  By the end of this workshop participants will be familiar with some techniques to stimulate compassionate mind processing.

Paul Gilbert is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Adult Mental Health , and Head of the Mental Health Research Unit for the Derbyshire Mental Health Trust.  He is Fellow of the British Psychological Society, past president of the BABCP and has written extensively in the areas of mood disorder and shame and compassion focused therapy. Deborah Lee specialises in working with traumatised people, co-runs the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Trauma Service, and has developed compassion focused therapy for Trauma

Key References:
Gilbert, P., & Andrews, B., [1988] Shame: Interpersonal Behavior, Psychopathology and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press. 
Gilbert , P. [2005] Compassion: Conceptualisations, Research and Use in psychotherapy. London. Routledge