Foundations of CFTp - Mar 2026
2026-03-25 09:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online event
The Foundations of CFTp workshop provides a basic overview of the application of CFT to individuals experiencing distressing voices and extreme beliefs. This workshop is open to all individuals interested in learning more about this approach. The workshop will outline Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) psychoeducation and how evolution has set humans up with a tricky brain that has a natural threat bias that can incline towards dissociating, problematic attention, and over-estimating threat, using ‘better safe than sorry’ algorithms. It will guide participants through the CFT formulation of voice-hearing and delusions, which focuses on their (protective) function for people, particularly in the context of interpersonal threat and trauma. Building on these de-shaming foundations in psychoeducation and formulation, workshop participants will learn how to support their clients in developing a ‘compassionate self’ identity and how to switch into compassionate mind states that organize multiple physiological processes differently from that of threat states. This training is open to all individuals regardless of experience or role.

Clinical Skills in CFTp - Apr 2026
2026-04-29 09:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Ready to further your skills in CFTp and apply this approach clinically?
We are offering a 16-hour online live CFTp training that focuses on applying CFT skills and concepts in a clinical setting. Participants will learn techniques that support their clients in applying compassionate competencies to achieve therapeutic change, with illustrative examples of interventions such as parts work, voice-dialoguing, imagery, letter-writing, and interventions that use role-play, chair work embodiment, and acting techniques. This training provides an orientation to the model as applied to working with individuals with early psychosis and longer-standing presentations of psychosis.
Participants should have previously attended the Foundations of CFTp workshop or other similar CFT training. Participants who attended the Foundations of CFTp training on 3/25/26 or who have participated in previous CFTp training may opt not to review this recording. Participants who have no prior CFTp training should plan to review this recording prior to the commencement of stage 2.

Compassionate Mind Training (CMT) Facilitator Training - Jun 2026
2026-06-17 09:30 - 2026-06-23 17:00 (Europe/London)
CMT Facilitator Training – PART 3 – The 8-week protocol
A 5-day workshop (online; 17th – 23rd Jun 2026)
Fee: £625
The CMT Facilitator Training has four parts (see overview below).
This booking page is for PART 3 only. Upcoming dates and links for all other parts are available here.
CMT Facilitator Training (overview)
The CMT Facilitator Training course will equip participants with the theoretical and practical skills to deliver the CMT 8-week Course (Irons & Heriot-Maitland, 2020). The course consists of four parts, which includes elements of personal practice, theoretical and practical work, responding to common issues and feedback, and supervision of facilitating CMT sessions.
The only pre-requisite for participants enrolling on this course is that they must be a health or social care practitioner with experience of working with mental health and wellbeing.
The total fee for the course is £1500 (all four parts); however, if a participant has already attended an 8-week course (Part 1) or a CFT introductory training (Part 2) and can provide evidence of this at the time of enrolling, they will not be required to (re-)attend this part.
