NICABM – The Clinical Application of Compassion

Here’s what you’ll get:

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