Welcome to the April 2017 ACT With Compassion newsletter!
In this issue we
feature an excerpt from a recent blog post about an exercise called “Holding and Being Held” that can be used in trainings, group therapy, or even in individual therapy. We also include links to other blog articles, compassion tools, and research updates that we've posted. If you know of anyone who might be interested in our content, be sure to forward the newsletter to him or her. You can also share it on social media with the social sharing tools at the
bottom.
We hope you enjoy this issue – if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send them to us!
Sincerely, Jason Luoma, Jenna LeJeune, & Christina Chwyl
Featured Blog Excerpt - January 2017
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Holding and Being Held with personalized LKM phrase
Very often the best innovations are born out of collaborations. That
is the case with the exercise we want to share with you this month, which we call “Holding and Being Held.” This exercise evolved from one I used when teaching “Abnormal Psychology” to help with perspective taking. Our friend and colleague, Robyn Walser, Ph.D. took that original exercise and modified it to use in pairs in her training workshops. We loved Robyn’s modification. The version you will see here is modified even further for use first in our AWC trainings and now in our “Big Heart, Open
Wide” class. We hope that some of you will also be able to add your own modifications to best suit your purposes. And we’d love to hear from you if you come up with versions that you think work well.
“Holding and Being Held” is an exercise that can be used in trainings, group therapy, or even in individual therapy. The version
below is worded for use with groups. This exercise utilizes the power of perspective taking to help individuals get in contact with their values around how they would want to treat themselves when they suffer, particularly when they suffer with shame and self-criticism. Because we have such a strong emphasis on LovingKindness Meditation (LKM) in our Big Heart, Open Wide class, we have added an optional “Part 2” to the exercise that incorporates some of that LKM
work. You can simply leave that part out if it doesn’t seem to fit for your purposes. Here are links to the Compassion Tools of the Month that we've featured on the AWC blog since our last newsletter:
You can access all of our posts on clinical tools here. You can read shame and self-compassion research updates that we've compiled since our last newsletter at the links below:
You can read up on all of our research updates at this link. We also feature original content on our blog - here are links to just some of the articles we've posted, including those we've published since our last newsletter:
Check out more of our original blog content here. We are hosting two upcoming workshops in September on using ACT with shame and self-criticism:
Both workshops will be led by Jason Luoma, PhD and Jenna LeJeune,
PhD.
Be sure to check out our Events page for information on other classes, workshops, and conferences relevant to therapists interested in shame, self-criticism, and compassion. If you know of an event you'd like to see
listed, please contact us with the details and we'll put it on our website! |
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