Posts tagged with 'self-compassion'
Mindful self-compassion residential: first morning, doubts & overview
10th May 2017
Well this is interesting. Here we are - Catero, my wife, and I - at the start of a five day workshop on "Mindful self-compassion" run by Chris Germer & Christine Brahler at Drangshlid, Eyjafjoll on the south coast of Iceland. We flew into Reykjavik yesterday from Scotland, met up …
European Positive Psychology conference: 3rd day - prioritizing positivity, befriending, compassion genetics, & transcendence
1st July 2016
I wrote yesterday about the "European Positive Psychology conference: better 2nd day - culture, use of strengths, loving-kindness, education & passion". This third day was also full to bursting with intriguing presentations. Barbara Fredrickson gave the 9.00am keynote on "Why prioritize positivity?". Barbara is a bit of a star of …
European Positive Psychology conference: 1st day - a disappointing start & caution on over-selling mindfulness
29th June 2016
I'm in Angers, France at the 8th European Conference on Positive Psychology. Yesterday I went to a couple of pre-conference workshops and then attended the Opening Ceremony and the first keynote lecture. The conference venue is lovely, on the edge of Angers Botanic Gardens. It feels too that the organising …
Could increasing our compassion for others be even more "therapeutic" than increasing our self-compassion?
13th February 2013
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson "We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They …
Arntz & Jacob's new book "Schema therapy in practice": links with attachment theory and with therapies for self-compassion
16th November 2012
Yesterday I wrote a post "Arntz & Jacob's new book 'Schema therapy in practice: some introductory comments" about the recently published and potentially broadly applicable extension of this Dutch team's previously successful treatment approach for borderline personality disorder. So the authors comment "While schema therapy was originally developed for clients …
Power objects, power postures, power clothes, power prayers: all ways to facilitate change (2nd post)
21st July 2012
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work" Thomas Edison In yesterday's post - "Power objects, power postures, power clothes, power prayers: all ways to facilitate change (1st post)" - I introduced recent research highlighting how we can use physical objects and …
Power objects, power postures, power clothes, power prayers: all ways to facilitate change (1st post)
20th July 2012
"I will love you like a wind, like a man stitching a skin together like a winter coat. Like a man sitting in meditation and repairing a cracking spirit. Like a man in love with a leaf, a cloud, a flame, a temple. Like a man on fire running in …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (eighth post): internal critic dialogues - practice points
24th February 2012
In the last post on this Emotion-focused therapy workshop series that I wrote, I discussed key background research on using EFT methods to work with people's "internal critics". In today's post, I'd like to be a bit more practical. So initially I note some general advice on how to structure …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (seventh post): internal critic dialogues - background research
22nd February 2012
I wrote yesterday about the morning session of this EFT training day in the post "Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (sixth post): a method for understanding puzzling reactions". In the afternoon we explored "Working with self-criticism/depressive splits". As Greenberg & Angus write in their book "Working with narrative in emotion-focused therapy" …
Conflict: not too much, not too little - when to get real & problem solve in close relationships
5th June 2011
Yesterday, in the blog "Conflict: not too much, not too little - the importance of assertiveness in close relationships", I looked at a series of four research papers from James McNulty's lab at the University of Tennessee on the importance of appropriate assertiveness rather than excessive forgiveness when a couple …