From Self-Criticism to Self-Compassion: Insights on Shame and the Inner Critic (includes Demo)

with Paul Gilbert, FBPsS, PhD, OBE

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What you'll learn

  • Understand social mentality theory which posits that caregiving and care-seeking systems are activated when we are being self-compassionate, and receive instruction on how to help activate these systems
  • Examine the conditions under which people develop an inner critic, and learn how to work with it in a clinical setting, from developing awareness to fully letting go
  • Watch Paul in a clinical demonstration of Compassion-Focused Therapy

About the speakers

Paul Gilbert, FBPsS, PhD, OBE

Paul Gilbert, FBPsS, PhD, OBE, was made Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby in 1992. He has had many visiting professorships at different universities and is now an honorary Visiting Professor 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. He was made a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1993, President of the BABCP 2002-2004, and was a member of the first British Governments’ NICE guidelines for depression. He has written/edited 23 books and over 300 papers and book chapters. In 2006, he established the Compassionate Mind Foundati​​on as an international charity with the mission statement: To promote wellbeing through the scientific understanding and application of compassion. There are now a number of sister foundations in other countries. He was awarded an OBE by the Queen in March 2011 for services to mental health. He established and is the Director of the Centre for Compassion Research and Training at Derby University UK. His latest book, edited with Professor G. Simos (2022),  Compassion: Clinical Practice and Applications (Routledge), offers a detailed overview of Compassion-Focused Therapy.

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  • I think I need Paul Gilbert’s calm, compassionate wisdom on loop in my headphones! This was SO powerful- thank you so much.

  • I am so grateful for these wonderful webinars they have been
    really helpful for me, please email me any upcoming webinars
    thank u again

  • what is the breathing exercise called again? Paul suggested we can just google it. But I missed the name of it. Anyone?

  • THANKS FOR DOING THIS. MY FATHER WAS AN ALCOHOLIC, AND I WONDER IF THAT IS SOMETHING THAT BRINGS SHAME.

  • Learnt so much from this session- very relatable and bravo for the demo.Dr Gilbert really got down to the nuts & bolts of our inner critic and shame.
    Grateful for this perspective & how deeply it resonated.

  • I very much enjoyed this session – what a beautifully put together comprehensive model that encompasses so many other models brilliantly. I would love to see a demo of Dr. Gilbert using this model with rage and was sorry there wasn’t time to include that piece of work. Is there any chance of seeing a demo of rage work? Are there links to videos somewhere of Dr. Gilbert doing a demo of this somewhere? Many thanks.

    • Was there a mention of a link to last year’s session? I only see a link to Dr. Gilbert’s book.

    • I really felt so much healing as I was doing all of the practices provided in the video. I missed Gabor Mate and Dr. Gilbert videos 🙁

  • Absolutely an amazing session!
    I learned a lot & could even go through my own process while listening to the Participant’s process. So powerful.
    Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge & expertise.

  • I am a layperson, not a therapist, but I will practice asking myself the same questions Dr. Gilbert led his client through. I have a very loud inner critic who quite often insults me, brings up past shame, and stops me from even attempting things.

  • This was a wonderful session, both learning from Paul Gilbert and this courageus client. Thanks so much for sharing. Amazing how powerful this work with compassion can be.

  • thank you Professor Gilbert for your amazing lecture and demo. It was a very special experience for me. I learnt so much!!!

  • This was a fantastic session! It was amazing to watch her face become relaxed and softened during the session. The difference in her eyes, facial tension, and eyes showed the change. Thank you so much for including Dr. Gilbert!

  • The abilities of healing the mind can’t be over estimated. Thankyou for positively helping us to see that young lady bloom

  • Thank you so much! I really appreciate this amazing healing journey through the complexity of our inner world.

  • How comforting to know we all have common problems with fear. Realizing we are equally audience & performers.

  • I always wondered why women and some men like flowers so much.

    We grew up thinking we could always trust everything that happened in life as correct. In this call by Paul Gilbert I am thinking unknown good things are possible with “self compassion”. It seems self compassion is largely a matter of understanding & cultivating truths which did not fully bloom until gardeners of the mind got hard to work on how to grow the bouquet. Thanks for the colors.

  • Excellent!
    I don’t see the link to Paul Gilbert’s 2022 presentation- discussion of CFT.
    Thank you!

  • I was unable to tune to this complete session but what it took was truly beneficial – Not only did I come to experience the depth of this topic but also learnt a lot from the live demonstration – so very grateful for this – sincere thanks.

  • Absolutely rich and delicious demo covering our tricky brains and the evolution, thank you 🙂
    I really valued the depth of the session.

  • The fear of rejection – and the repeated experience of being judged and rejected – at the bottom of so many different symptomes and suffering… So true and so painful … and the lonelyness that comes from this as well as a merciless hostile inner critic. How wonderful to become aware that even our inner critic can learn to be compassionate and cooperative in a healty, supportive way and that his initial intention is not distructive but protective …

  • NLP “meta pattern” (Overdurf) with suggestions is demonstrated by Paul with detail not alluded to in traditional NLP training. Thank you for a great example.

  • thank you for this great opportunity. The guided step-by-step approach of realigning oneself was extremely helpful and practical.
    Jenny

  • I am so happy and thankful for this training/webinar. It’s very healing and helpful to learn from these excellent professionals. This session was exceptional. Thank you.

  • So informative. Starting to Life the veil from my eyes. This is true therapy. Inner critic work is so, so important, at least for me. I

  • I hope you have an encore day (or 2!) as I’d so love to catch a bit of Day 1, and was unable to attend. Thank You!

    • Peach – The first day should still be available to you – They said each session would be available for 48 hours! Good luck!

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