Posts tagged with 'compassion'
Going back for a university reunion: emotional archaeology unearths a treasure trove of insights & new directions (6th post)
18th September 2012
This is the sixth and final blog post about going back to my old university for a reunion dinner. I wrote three posts last month and a further couple earlier this month. In the first post of the series, I said: "I've never been back for any kind of reunion …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource - overview of 10 supporting blog posts
14th August 2012
Earlier this year I wrote a sequence of ten blog posts to support people working their way through Mark Williams & Danny Penman's fine book "Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world" as a self-help training in mindfulness practice. I've referred lots of people to these …
Mindfulness and the therapeutic relationship: does it make any difference?
10th August 2012
I've been asked to give a talk on "Mindfulness and the healing relationship" at a seminar later this autumn. The brief is to approach the subject via the emerging research evidence. The seminar organizer may well reduce the number of words involved, but the information I sent him read: "James …
Recent research: articles from July journals
9th August 2012
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Leeds BABCP conference: compassion focused therapy & CBT, John Vlaeyen & treating chronic pain problems (8th post)
2nd August 2012
In June I wrote a series of five posts reporting on a pre-conference workshop (about treating chronic fatigue) and the first day of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) main annual conference, held this year in Leeds. Then last month I wrote a further couple of posts. …
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 …
Personal directions in mindfulness teaching: should we really only be training mindfulness for diverse group populations?
6th July 2012
I wrote an initial blog post in May entitled "Personal directions in mindfulness teaching: an overview" where I said that I was "excited, stimulated, happy, frustrated, challenged, and hopeful" about the current surge of interest in mindfulness and introduced the following diagram: (This diagram is downloadable both as a PDF …
Recent research: articles from June journals
5th July 2012
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Leeds BABCP conference: 2 symposia on how CBT works, Paul Salkovskis plenary, the compassion special interest group (5th post)
30th June 2012
This year is the 40th annual British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) conference and it runs for for three full days plus the option of a one day pre-conference workshop. I've already written about the pre-conference workshop I attended on "Chronic fatigue" with Trudie Chalder. Despite the fact …