Cultivating The Strength For Compassion with Professor Paul Gilbert | Part 1 of 2

Paul Gilbert, FBPsS, PhD, OBE is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby and honorary visiting Prof at the University of Queensland. Until his retirement from the NHS in 2016 he was Consultant Clinical Psychologist for over 40 years. He has researched evolutionary approaches to psychopathology with a special focus on mood, shame and self-criticism in various mental health difficulties for which Compassion Focused Therapy was developed. 

 

What we discuss in this episode: 

-   An introduction to Professor Paul Gilbert and how he came to develop CFT

-   Consideration of compassion as an active, courageous and wise practice

-   What does it mean that we have a 'tricky brain'?

-   Why learning to fail is important

 

Tune in next week to hear about the 3 flows of compassion (receiving for others, for yourself), about the need for compassion to have a political focus, and to learn a practices to cultivate compassion in mind and body

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