An exercise to help you notice when you are in your senses as opposed to in your mind and when you are acting to move towards what's important to you as opposed to acting to escape from difficult internal experiences. 

ACT matrix warm up

These tracks feature Dr James Kirby delivering Compassion-Focused Therapy exercises in order to help build individual's own compassionate self.

CFT - Compassionate Image

CFT - Building Our Compassionate Self (Part 1)

CFT - Deepening The Compassionate Self (Part II)

All the recordings from 'Opening to Heart of Compassion' retreat at Vajrasana UK, October 2017.

The retreat was led by Vidyamala Burch, Sona Fricker, Andrea Cygler and Narapa Johnson.

The talks and meditations explored loving kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity.

Day 1 Loving Kindness Meditation By Sona

Three minutes breathing space

This is an exercise aimed to help develop your compassionate self. When you do these practices it is important to just play around with them and see how they work for you. If they are difficult it at all, just stop. So as they say, stay in your safe zone. With time these practices become easier.

CFT Compassionate Self Exercise

A short guided mindfulness meditation exploring sensations, thoughts, emotions, breath. Softening tension moment by moment.

Mindfulness Meditation for UCL Pain Management Masters

Body Scan (13.5 mns) – John Fletcher

For anyone needing a bit of a pause, support or tenderness, this meditation aims to build resilience through self-compassion. The coronavirus is bringing up so much uncertainty, fear and anxiety that we can meet with self-compassion-- facing our own anxiety and fear with kindness so that we can then extend compassion to others. Self-compassion includes remembering our common humanity: we're in it together. (Self-compassion inspired by Kristin Neff's work)

Meditation: facing what's here with compassion

This video follows on from the previous two videos about The Compassionate Friend. However, here, Dr Stan Steindl discusses creating the "ideal compassionate other." This involves imagining an ideal being, without human weaknesses or flaws, who is exactly the kind of compassionate other that we want and would feel most helpful. If you would like to write your thoughts and ideas down on the "Creating Your Ideal Compassionate Other" handout mentioned in the video, go to the link below to download the PDF. And if you would like to watch the original video, you can find it here: https://youtu.be/TKdb_1IcC5s


Creating Your Ideal Compassionate Other Handout:
https://psychologyconsultants-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/stan_psychologyconsultants_com_au/Ebm1vW2kVp5AhMiSTC9Ypy0BJqViUIMIOr7xLWwnsmAJXQ?e=vO7VeN

Creating Your Ideal Compassionate Other (or The Compassionate Friend - Part 3)

Welcome to The Compassion Mind Research Group Podcast Series. This Podcast series is from the Compassionate Mind Research Group lab at the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. The podcast series is aimed to share research news about compassion, as well as compassion imagery and meditation tracks of compassion, which we use in our research. You can check out our lab here: https://psychology.uq.edu.au/research/labs-groups/compassionate-mind

CFT - Deepening The Compassionate Self (Part II)

The Compassion Mind Research Group (CMRG) Podcast