Mindful Compassion with Prof. Paul Gilbert

Mindful Compassion: How the Science of Compassion Can Help You Understand Your Emotions, Live in the Present, and Connect Deeply with Others is a story that will transform your mind, cultivate compassion, stability, self-confidence, and well-being. Therapists have long been aware of mindfulness as a powerful attention skill that can help us live with greater clarity and awareness—but mindfulness alone is not enough to completely change the way a brain works. Learn the secrets in this show. Paul Gilbert, PhD, FBPsS, OBE is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby and is a Visiting Professor at The University of Queensland, Australia. He was an NHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Derbyshire Health Care Foundation Trust until his retirement in 2016. He has researched evolutionary approaches to psychopathology for over 40 years with a special focus on self-criticism, shame and the treatment of shame-based difficulties especially the depressions and anxieties of life. Compassion focused therapy was originally developed for and with people with complex and difficult mental health problems. He was made a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1993. In 2003 Paul was president of the BABCP and a member of the first British Governments’ NICE guidelines for depression. He has written/edited 22 books and over 300 publications. In 2006 he established the Compassionate Mind Foundation, a charity with the mission statement “to promote wellbeing through the scientific understanding and application of compassion.” He was awarded an OBE in March 2011. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to http://www.provocativeenlightenment.com