Hello CFT Colleagues - I'd like you to meet your foreign relations . . .

[DENNIS TIRCH]

Hello All,

Sending love from the snowy Hudson Valley.

In an email communication with Paul Gilbert today, I mentioned that the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS)

now has a compassion focused special interest group that numbers over 1,100 members and climbing.

ACBS is best known for being the organization that supports ACT practice, research and development.

However several schools of thought are represented and explored in this community, including Functional Analytic Psychotherapy,

Relational Frame Theory (of course) and varieties of Contextual Behavioral Science. 

Over the last few years, there has been a growing CFT interest in ACBS, and the application of compassion to ACT practice and 

other approaches is growing as is an emphasis on evolutionary models within CBS.

Paul encouraged me to let the greater CFT community know that this conversation and interest is taking place.

I think that the CBS community has a lot to offer CFT, particularly in how we might continue to expand our research and 

applications by framing new experimental questions and targeting evidence based processes and procedures.

CFT clearly has a lot to offer CBS, in that the methods and aims of CFT provide specific ways to train our compassionate minds,

with compassion clearly central to psychotherapy effectiveness.

This evening, I received word of this Psychology Today Blog from Steven Hayes, which describes the growing CFT and ACT conversation, and 

also speaks of the book that Dr. Laura Silberstein and Benji Schoendorff wrote with me, The ACT Practitioner’s Guide to The Science of Compassion.

I know I’ve mentioned that book a few times here, but it appeared timely, so . . .

Here is the blog entry:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/get-out-your-mind/201502/moving-toward-compassion-in-the-psychological-sciences

I’m so honestly moved to be a part of these communities working together and separately to alleviate and prevent human suffering.

Many who are reading this are a part of both of these deeply valued families that we share. If you are an ACT or CBS person, 

I would highly encourage you to check out whatever you can about CFT. Your voice is important in this conversation about the science of 

compassion. If you are a CFT person, I would encourage you to look at how ACT, the psychological flexibility model and CBS relates to the 

cultivation of the compassionate mind. Lets think further together, on how the conversation among CFT, CBS and ACT can help us move towards our shared 

compassionate aims. Lots of us are already engaged in these converging worlds, looking at the distinctive features and common ground these traditions share.

There will be a conference for ACBS this July in Berlin, and we have had a number of CFT and compassion related submissions.

Hope to see many of you there. Really looking forward to seeing everyone in Manchester this October for the CFT conference, too!!

Sending good wishes,

Dennis

Dennis Tirch PhD

Director, The Center for Mindfulness and CFT

Assistant Clinical Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College

Associate Editor, The Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

President, The Compassionate Mind Foundation, USA

Fellow, Diplomate & Certified CBT Trainer/Consultant, Academy of Cognitive Therapy

President and Founding Fellow, 

NYC-CBT Association

Founding President Emeritus, New York City Chapter, Association for Contextual Behavioral Science

Assistant Attending Psychologist, New York Presbyterian Hospital

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[Kelly G. Wilson]

Very cool blog:) Thanks for pointing it out Dennis!

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[Mark Sisti]

Great Blog by Steve, and thanks for heads up Dennis.

Two points on the blog;

1.  I do believe we are beginning to pause and compassinately, put ourselves into each others communities, not only within our contextual CBT family, but across the isle, integrative work like Fonagy & Batemens mentalization, the previously mentioned work of compassion informed therapists, the relational analysts particularly the cyclical reciprocal inter-pesonal dynamics of Paul Wachtel and……(a shameless plug for the book with my own chapters of this sort integrative interpersonal work, http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Acceptance-Psychodynamic-Evolution-Psychology-ebook/dp/B00NYHQ78A/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424267810&sr=1-1&keywords=jason+stewart.  Stay tuned, with any luck another similar integrative volume on the horizon.

2.  Our communities excitement for the emerging wing of CBS which is highlighting inter-personal and/or transpersonal processes.  

ACT is talking about pro sociality, as a fast track to values, CFT is inherently social and transpersonal, and FAP has of course sustained this focus on in and out of session interpersonal interactions and quality of life for years….exploring interpersonal processes inherent in, mutual vulnerability, interconnection, intimacy, love.

Ongoing success with the book and the SIG Dennis…..nice work, many thanks for furthering these developments within and beyond our community.

[Thomas Holmes]

Very cool indeed Dennis. The potential for the two (CFT and ACBS/RFT/ACT) articulating together is enormous. One area in particular is how the cognitive “new brain” as CFT talks about it is articulated in RFT and how that develops ontogenetically thru conditioning, while CFT articulates the underlying evolutionarily based “affect programs” that get built upon and transformed via the “new brain ” of language into values. A key bit of the latter is how compassion and kindness (kind as = to application of kindness to one’s own kind/family/group) are generalized as universal via language and perspective taking.

Keep up the great work everyone. I also feel so privileged to live in this time with this kind of work happening.

With metta, karuna, mudita and upekkha,

Tom Holmes

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[Paul Gilbert]

Lovely Blogs Stev and Dennis

I am on a retreat at the moment and just sneaking out to an e-mail -- tut tut ---but hope to respond more fully next week.

CFT is very much rooted in what used to be called the biopsychosocial model and motivation theory --- and of course now that we know about DNA methylation and etc to do with how social contexts changes as deeply even at physiological levels I think we all have to be contextualists as Dennis and stev say
back to silence!!!

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Subject: Re: {ACBS Compassion SIG} Hello CFT Colleagues - I'd like you to meet your foreign relations . . .

Great Blog by Steve, and thanks for heads up Dennis.
Two points on the blog;
1. I do believe we are beginning to pause and compassinately, put ourselves into each others communities, not only within our contextual CBT family, but across the isle, integrative work like Fonagy & Batemens mentalization, the previously mentioned work of compassion informed therapists, the relational analysts particularly the cyclical reciprocal inter-pesonal dynamics of Paul Wachtel and……(a shameless plug for the book with my own chapters of this sort integrative interpersonal work, http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Acceptance-Psychodynamic-Evolution-Psychology-ebook/dp/B00NYHQ78A/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424267810&sr=1-1&keywords=jason+stewart. Stay tuned, with any luck another similar integrative volume on the horizon.

2. Our communities excitement for the emerging wing of CBS which is highlighting inter-personal and/or transpersonal processes.
ACT is talking about pro sociality, as a fast track to values, CFT is inherently social and transpersonal, and FAP has of course sustained this focus on in and out of session interpersonal interactions and quality of life for years….exploring interpersonal processes inherent in, mutual vulnerability, interconnection, intimacy, love.

Ongoing success with the book and the SIG Dennis…..nice work, many thanks for furthering these developments within and beyond our community.

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Subject: Re: {ACBS Compassion SIG} Hello CFT Colleagues - I'd like you to meet your foreign relations . . .

Very cool blog:) Thanks for pointing it out Dennis!


Kelly G. Wilson
Professor of Psychology
311 Peabody Building
Psychology Department
University of Mississippi
Oxford, MS 38677

ph: 662.816.5189 (best phone)
fax: you're kidding--so 80's

academic homepage: www.kellygwilson.com<http://www.kellygwilson.com/>

also check out
www.onelifellc.com<http://www.onelifellc.com/>
www.facebook.com/kellygwilson<http://www.facebook.com/kellygwilson>

http://www.mindfulcompassion.com<http://www.mindfulcompassion.com/>

phone: 845-664-1498

If you are contacting me about clinical or urgent concerns, please call me at 845-664-1498 rather than sending email. Thank You, DT

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