The OCASI Mental Health Promotion Project (MHP) is pleased to invite you to:
Using Compassionate Mind Training to Respond to Difficult Emotions
- Date: Friday, June 16, 2023
- Time: 1:00 - 4:30 PM EDT
About this training workshop
Compassionate Mind Training focuses on developing and enhancing our abilities to respond to emotional difficulties with warmth, kindness and skill, whether it be our own difficulties or the difficulties of others.
Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to explore the meaning of compassionate responding and participate in experiential exercises that have been developed to help us engage in this way more consistently.
Humans are the only species that self-monitor in a particular way and while this has advantages, it is also a source for a lot of shame, anxiety and depression.
An increased awareness of our natural tendencies and how to engage in compassionate responding is helpful in reducing the impact of these distressing emotions.
About the Facilitator
Greg Samuelson is a Registered Nurse and a Registered Psychotherapist with over 30 years experience in the mental health field working in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings. He currently works in a Complex General Psychiatry Clinic, at The Mindfulness Clinic in Toronto, and at his private practice GPS Psychotherapy. Greg has training in CFT, CBT, DBT, IPT, CPT, and Mindfulness based therapies. His current practice focuses on the use of Compassion Focused Therapy in individual psychotherapy. Greg was a founding member of the Canadian Network - Compassion Focused Therapy - Réseau Canadien. He facilitates an online CFT peer consultation group and in person CFT meetings for therapists in Toronto. He also provides supervision and consultation for therapists interested in learning to use the model of CFT with their clients. Greg also practices and teaches in the Korean Ganhwasoen (Koan Zen) tradition. He received Dharma Transmission from his teacher in 2013. Greg has attended retreats with teachers from various Buddhist traditions.
If you have any questions, please contact Caley Cross (she/her) at: ccross@ocasi.org