Professor Paul Gilbert: Short Shares, Episode 1

The Compassion Initiative: Just Two Guys in Brisbane talking Compassion. www.thecompassioninitiative.com.au

Compassion in a T-Shirt: Short Shares with Professor Paul Gilbert will explore the life and work therapist, the researcher, and the founder of compassion focused therapy. In Episode 1, he speaks about his journey from childhood and adolescence, through training and research, arriving at a model of the mind and the inception of Compassion Focused Therapy. _____ Professor Paul Gilbert, OBE, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby, Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland Australia, Founder of the Compassionate Mind Foundation, and recently retired Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Derbyshire Health Care Foundation Trust. Professor Gilbert has worked extensively as both therapist and researcher, and his experiences in both led him to develop compassion focused therapy, an evolutionary and bio-psycho-social approach to psychotherapy. He has published extensively, including numerous research articles, academic texts and self-help books. Through the Compassionate Mind Foundation and Compassionate Wellbeing, he has recently produced a series of videos taking a compassionate response to the COVID-19 crisis called The Nature of Compassion, Fear, Safe Relating and World Change (see link below). _____ The Nature of Compassion, Fear, Safe Relating and World Change https://www.compassionatewellbeing.com/compassion-safe-relating-and-world-change-lecture-series.html