NICABM – The Clinical Application of Compassion

Master Series on the Clinical Application of Compassion

A 4-Module Series on Integrating Compassion-Oriented Treatment into Clinical Practice

Get permanent access to all 4 modules, plus transcripts, application sessions, and bonus content.

What do we do when our go-to strategies – the strategies we rely on most to work with depression, anxiety, shame, fear, anger, and especially trauma – don’t work as well as we’d like them to?

What if there was one key element that could open up those places where we so often get stuck – even with our most challenging clients?

I’m talking about compassion.

You see, the way we now understand how compassion affects the brain and body can be game-changing for helping clients heal. Not only that, it’s constantly evolving.

Promising clinical research into the healing power of compassion can take our treatment strategies in a new direction.

This can improve our work with so many clients, especially when we start seeing a client’s progress stall, and we begin feeling like our tried-and-true interventions just aren’t working.

You see, we now have research into compassion that simply didn’t exist, even just a short time ago.

Looking back, there were probably a lot of things about compassion that seemed intuitive to us, but we had no science to back them up.

Now we have that science.

Researchers studying compassion can now identify what actually happens in the brain and in the nervous system when people practice compassion.

Not only that, we also understand compassion’s impact on the treatment of trauma much better than we did even five years ago.

And finally, we’ve learned more ways to work with the healing power of compassion. Ways to apply it that can help people who are struggling with anxiety and depression.

Compassion-oriented therapy is opening up new opportunities for practitioners to be even more effective with their patients.

But integrating compassion into your work can be complicated and nuanced.

That’s why we developed an advanced program that gathers all the latest on compassion and how we can apply it to our work . . .

. . . and we’re calling all practitioners, all over the world, to join us for the next four weeks as we meet to focus on the clinical application of compassion.

Introducing The Clinical Application of Compassion

The Neurobiology of Compassion

• How Compassion Blocks Fear and Activates Courage in the Brain
• How the Brain Processes Threat and Compassion’s Specific Role in Dialing It Down
• One Part of the Brain That Can Block Compassion – and What We Can Do About It
• The Surprising Role of Reward and Pleasure in the Context of Suffering
• How Compassion Improves Heart Rate Variability and Vagal Tone
• How to Apply the 3 Circles Model of Emotions to Help Clients Heal from Shame

How Compassion-Oriented Therapies Work and What Makes Them So Effective

• The “Unholy Trinity” that Blocks Compassion and Keeps Clients Locked in Harsh Blame and Judgment (and How to Work with It)
• Why Self-Compassion Is an Intelligent Response to Emotional Pain
• Old Brain, New Brain – How to Help Clients Cope with Today’s Stress by Managing Yesterday’s Brain Processes
• The Self-Compassion Break – A Simple Yet Powerful Practice to Help Clients Cultivate Compassion and Manage Painful Emotions
• How Fight, Flight, and Freeze Protect Us from Danger, But Backfire During Emotional Distress
• 6 Key Compassion Exercises to Boost Your Client’s Capacity to Weather Distress and Transform Suffering

How to Transform Shame with Self-Compassion

• The Power of Self-Compassion to Neutralize Self-Criticism and Reduce Shame (and the Science Behind It)
• How to Help Clients Develop Compassion Motivation (and Why It’s Key for Healing Shame)
• How to Help Clients Break Free from the Vicious “Shame-Maintenance Cycle”
• 3 Paradoxes of Shame (and Their Surprising Parallels with the 3 Key Components of Self-Compassion)
• Using Imagery and Visualization to Help Your Client Shift out of Shame
• A Step-by-Step Guide to Helping Clients Create a Corrective Emotional Experience

How to Skillfully Apply Compassion in the Treatment of Trauma and Attachment Ruptures

• Why Compassion Is So Effective for Helping Clients Process Trauma
• Using Compassionate Imagery to Help Traumatized Clients Increase Their Window of Tolerance
• How to Integrate Self-Compassion into 3 Specific Phases of Trauma Treatment
• How to Help Clients Identify Their Emotional Triggers and Go-To Safety Behaviors
• How to Work with “Backdraft” and Other Difficulties that Could Arise for Traumatized Clients in Compassion-Oriented Treatment
• Navigating a Client’s Fears, Resistance, and Blocks to Compassion in the Treatment of Trauma

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