Registration‍

This workshop will be 15 hours towards your CPD, and you will receive a certificate of attendance shortly after the workshop. This workshop will be recorded, and recordings will be available for up to one month after the live broadcast for you to watch in your own time.

We will host this workshop via Zoom Meetings and will send all relevant joining instructions a week before the workshop.‍

Timings‍

All timings are according to UK GMT

Day One: 09:30 - 17.00, Day Two: 09.30 - 17:00‍

Pricing‍

This workshop is priced at a flat rate of £195. For those in difficult financial circumstances, who may struggle to afford this price, please contact [email protected]

About this Course

‘Chairwork’ refers to a group of experiential psychotherapeutic techniques that incorporate chairs, the positioning of chairs and the client’s movement between them. Chairwork has a rich history in psychotherapy and has a key role in Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT). Research has found chairwork to be an effective, experiential intervention that increases emotional processing and activation; facilitates differentiation, dialogue and integration between internal ‘parts’ or ‘selves’; allows clients to gain a metacognitive stance; and is memorably ‘enactive’ in nature.

The webinar will provide participants with an opportunity to practice key CFT chairwork interventions such as working with self-criticism and processing multiple threat-emotions. Alternate and novel applications of CFT chairwork will be introduced and practiced, including working with blocks to compassion using chairwork and integrating motivational chairwork. Each intervention will be introduced with digital adaptations to ensure these powerful procedures can be applied when working online.

The webinar is predominantly skills-based and experiential and will include live observations, practical exercises, theoretical discussion and group reflection. Whilst the workshop is open to people new to CFT, participants will benefit from some prior knowledge of the therapy.

In this webinar participants will:

-Understand the underpinning principles and theoretical rationale for chairwork in CFT

-Practice core CFT chairwork interventions including self-critic and ‘multiple-selves’ interventions

-Work with blocks, fears and resistances to compassion using chairwork

-Practice novel applications of chair-work in CFT (including motivational chairwork)

-Learn how to adapt CFT chairwork for online practice

Useful Reading

Bell, T. (2021). Compassion-focused therapy chairwork. In P. Gilbert and G. Simos (Eds.), Compassion-focused therapy in clinical practice. Oxon: Taylor and Francis.

Bell, T., Montague, J., Elanders, J, & Gilbert, P. (2020). ‘A definite feel-it moment’: Embodiment, externalization and emotion during chair-work in compassion-focused therapy. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 20, 143-153.

Bell, T., Montague, J., Elanders, J, & Gilbert, P. (2021). ‘Suddenly you are King Solomon’: Multiplicity, transformation, and integration in compassion-focused therapy chairwork. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 31, 3, 223–237.

Bell, T., Montague, J., Elanders, J, & Gilbert, P. (2021). Multiple-emotions, multiple-selves: chairwork in compassion focused therapy. The Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, 14, E22.

Pugh, M. & Bell, T. (2020). Process-based chairwork: Applications and innovations in the time of COVID-19. European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research and Practise, 4, 1-8.

Pugh, M., Bell. T., & Dixon, A. (2021). Delivering tele-chairwork: A qualitative survey of expert therapists. Psychotherapy Research, 31, 7, 843-858.

Pugh, M., Bell, T., Waller, G., & Petrova, E. (2021). Attitudes and applications of chairwork amongst CBT therapists: A preliminary survey. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 14, E21.

Kellogg, S. (2014). Transformational chairwork. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

Pugh, M. (2020). Cognitive behavioural chairwork. Oxon: Routledge

Workshop Leaders

Dr. Tobyn Bell is a Compassion Focused Therapy Trainer, Supervisor and Psychotherapist, and is also part of the training committee for the Compassionate Mind Foundation. He is the co-author of the book ‘Compassion Focused Therapy from the Inside Out: A Self-practice/Self-reflection Workbook for Therapists’. Tobyn regularly provides national and international training on compassion and chairwork and conducts research in these areas. He is a co-founder of Chairwork (www.chairwork.co.uk) - an international provider of chairwork-related training and supervision- and works as a lecturer and operational lead at the University of Manchester.

Alison Bell is a senior psychological therapist accredited in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) & Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT). Alison works with clients with complex difficulties within the NHS, and works as a tutor and supervisor at the Psychological Therapies Training Centre in Manchester. Alison has a keen interest in compassionate, relational and integrative approaches, with a particular interest in CFT. She has published research in CFT and has experience facilitating CFT groups.