Mindfulness And Self-compassion

MINDFULNESS AND SELF-COMPASSIONBETWEEN PSYCHOEDUCATION AND CLINICAL PRACTICEINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE27-28 November 2021

MINDFULNESS AND SELF-COMPASSIONBETWEEN PSYCHOEDUCATION AND CLINICAL PRACTICEMindfulness and self-compassion practices stemfrom the Buddhist tradition and over the last thirtyyears have developed in many different settingsin Western society: from schools to hospitals,from therapeutic communities to prisons, fromthe corporate world to professional trainingand psychotherapy in the form of Mindfulnessbased stress reduction programs.Thousands of scientific publications testify theeffectiveness of mindfulness-based and selfcompassion interventions and this evidence,combined with the short duration and relativelylow cost of group interventions, has led to aprogressive expansion of intervention modelsthat have been adapted to different populations.Interventions promoting the well-being of socialworkers and health care professionals, teachersand educators, caregivers and parents andclinical interventions for patients suffering froma wide range of conditions - stress, addictions,chronic pain, depression, anxiety, sleep/INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE27-28 November 2021disorders, support for cancer patients, patientswith heart disease, eating disorders, respiratoryproblems and post-traumatic stress disorder –are now well established. All have experiencedenormous benefits (Hilton L.G. et al., 2019).In this pandemic year, more and more peoplehave turned to stress reduction interventions.But Mindfulness-based and self-compassioninterventions are much more than that and withthis international convention we wish to take amoment to discuss and assess the clinical andresearch framework and compare the Italianexperience with international practices inorder to answer the question: “What does thisparticular moment of learning require from us?”The conference will alternate lectures byinternational guests with moments ofmindfulness practice and will encouragediscussion, inquiry and sharing in small groups.Saturday 27 November

MINDFULNESS AND SELF-COMPASSIONBETWEEN PSYCHOEDUCATION AND CLINICAL PRACTICE/INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE27-28 November 2021Saturday 27 NovemberAfternoonSaturday 27 NovemberMorningFROM PROTOCOLS TO CLINICAL PRACTICEChairperson Paola Mamone - ItalyMINDFULNESS AND HEARTFULNESSChairperson Nicoletta Cinotti - Italy09:00-09:30 Welcoming participants15:30-16:00There is no raft: a radical phenomenology ofconsciousness as a tool for clinical practiceand teaching MindfulnessAlessandro Giannandrea - Italy09:30-10:00 Mindfulness and Internal Family SystemsNicoletta Cinotti - ItalyPROGRAMME10:00-10:30Mindful Parenting in challenging timesSusan Bögels - The Netherlands10:30-11:30 Supporting Integrity with the MBI-TAC:cultivating competence in MindfulnessteachingRebecca Crane - United Kingdom16:00-16:30 Mindfulness, Self-Compassion andPsychotherapyChristopher Germer - USA16:30-17:00An overview on compassion-basedinterventionsMaja Wrzesien - parenting practicewith Nicoletta Cinotti - Italy17:30-18:00Self-Compassion practicewith Paola Mamone - Italy12:30-13:10Sharing and inquiry in groups with facilitators18:00-18:40Sharing and inquiry in groups with facilitators13:10-13:30Plenary sharing18:40-19:00Plenary sharing13:30-15:30Break

MINDFULNESS AND SELF-COMPASSIONBETWEEN PSYCHOEDUCATION AND CLINICAL PRACTICESunday 28 NovemberMorningChairperson Alessandro Giannandrea - Italy09:30-10:00 How the therapeutic presence improvesclinical competenciesPaola Mamone - Italy10:00-10:30 Inquiry in Mindfulness-based interventions:a technique and an artRobert Brandsma - The NetherlandsPROGRAMME10:30-11:00Break/INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE27-28 November 202111:00-12:00Round tableMindfulness in the psychotherapy roomModerator Maria Francesca Freda - ItalyDiscussants Andrea BassaniniAcceptance and Commitment Therapy Laura BecciaSchema therapy Nicola PetrocchiCompassion Focused Therapy Maria Beatrice ToroCognitivist approach Alessandro GiannandreaAnalytical psychotherapy and existential anthropology Nicoletta CinottiInterpersonal Mindfulness Paola MamoneSelf-Compassion in psychotherapy12:00-12:50 Final sharing12:50-13:00Greetings

MINDFULNESS AND SELF-COMPASSIONBETWEEN PSYCHOEDUCATION AND CLINICAL PRACTICEMAIN SPEAKERSSusan BögelsProfessor in psychology at the University ofAmsterdam, psychotherapist specialisedin cognitive behaviour, couple and familytherapy and mindfulness for children andparents, and companies. Her main researchareas concern the trans-generationaltransmission of psychopathology in familyprocesses and the cost / benefit relationshipof actions based on mindfulness. Shehas published more than 200 articles ininternational scientific journals and 14books translated into different languagesall over the world.Robert BrandsmaLicensed health psychologist, a pedagogue,meditation teacher and author. He is the cofounder of the Centrum voor Mindfulnessin Amsterdam and head of its MBSR/MBCTteacher trainer program. As a contemplativepractitioner, Rob has had a long termmeditation practice and teaches meditationretreats in the tradition of early Buddhism.He also teaches Buddhist psychology tomindfulness teachers. A publishing authorsince two decades, Rob wrote severalpopular books on mindfulness-basedliving. He is a leading authority in themethodology and pedagogy of teachingmindfulness. His book The MindfulnessTeaching Guide, A Comprehensive Guideto Teaching Mindfulness in Any Setting,is translated several languages, amongstwhich in Italian: Insegnare mindfulness: unaguida: Le abilità e le competenze essenzialiper istruttori di interventi Mindfulnessbased./INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE27-28 November 2021Nicoletta CinottiPsychologist, psychotherapist, teacher at theSchool of Specialisation in PsychotherapyrecognisedbyMIURHumanitas,Mindfulness Teacher with the Center forMindfulness for the MBSR protocol, MettaFoundation for Interpersonal Mindfulness,MBCT (Zindel Segal), Mindful Parenting(Susan Bögels), MSC.Nicoletta organises Mindful Parentingtraining in Italy, leads meditation retreatswhich she alternates with clinical practice.She has written and published 4 books andnumerous articles and publications.

MINDFULNESS AND SELF-COMPASSIONBETWEEN PSYCHOEDUCATION AND CLINICAL PRACTICERebecca CraneMAIN SPEAKERSDirector of the Centre for MindfulnessResearch and Practice at BangorUniversity, Rebecca has played a leadingrole in developing its training and researchprogramme since it was founded in 2001.She teaches and trains internationally inboth Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapyand Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction(MBSR). Her research and publicationsfocus on how the evidence on mindfulnessbased interventions can be implementedwith integrity into practice settings. Shehas written “Mindfulness-Based CognitiveTherapy Distinctive Features”, 2017, coauthored Mindfulness-Based CognitiveTherapy with People at Risk of Suicide”,2017 and is a Principle Fellow with theHigher Education Academy.Christopher GermerClinical psychologist and lecturer onpsychiatry (part-time) at Harvard MedicalSchool. He co-developed the Mindful SelfCompassion (MSC) program with KristinNeff in 2010 and they wrote two books,The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbookand Teaching the Mindful Self-CompassionProgram. MSC has been taught to over150,000 people worldwide. Dr. Germeris also the author of The Mindful Pathto Self-Compassion; he co-edited twoinfluential volumes on therapy, Mindfulnessand Psychotherapy, and Wisdom andCompassion in Psychotherapy; and hemaintains a small psychotherapy practice inMassachusetts, USA./INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE27-28 November 2021Alessandro ed in Analytical Psychotherapy andExistential Anthropology, Alessandro holdsa PhD in Psychology, Psychophysiologyand Personality, and is the founder of theAbruzzo Mindfulness Practice Center andItalia Mindfulness. He teaches the 2ndlevel Master “Mindfulness: Practice, Clinicalstudies and Neuroscience” at the SapienzaUniversity of Rome. He is an MBCT, MBSRand MSC instructor, certified by the UCSDSchool of Medicine, in San Diego, California.He collaborates with the UCSD Centerfor Mindfulness as trainer and supervisorfor mindfulness instructors, Alessandrohas published articles on scientificjournals such as “Mindfulness”, “Setting”,“The Journal of the Centre for FreudianAnalysis and Research”, “New Perspectivesin Psychology”, with the Italian publisher“Arpanet” and Jason Aronson PublishingHouse in Maryland, USA.

MINDFULNESS AND SELF-COMPASSIONBETWEEN PSYCHOEDUCATION AND CLINICAL PRACTICEMAIN SPEAKERSPaola MamonePsychologist, psychotherapist, adjunctprofessor at the School of Specializationin Health Psychology of the University LaSapienza in Rome, she is co-founder ofthe Italian Society of Health Psychologyand Interessere - Mindfulness in Action(https://interessere.info/). Paola is a MindfulParenting trainer and MBSR senior teacher.Maja WrzesienScientist and mindfulness & compassiontrainer for youth, adults, and educators. Shehas a PhD in clinical and health psychologyand is currently working as a researcherand lecturer at the University of Valencia(Spain). She is also an Academic Directorof Summer & Winter School programs onthe topic of Mindfulness and Compassionat the University of Amsterdam./INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE27-28 November 2021

MINDFULNESS AND SELF-COMPASSIONBETWEEN PSYCHOEDUCATION AND CLINICAL PRACTICEMaria Francesca FredaROUND TABLEFull Professor for the Department ofHumanities of the University of NaplesFederico II, she is a researcher in ClinicalPsychology and Health Psychology and hasauthored over 130 papers in the fieldAndrea BassaniniClinical psychologist, psychotherapist,director of MeP - Mindfulness e Psicoterapia,Milan. Andrea is a Mindfulness Teacher forthe MBSR protocol trained at the ItalianAssociation for Mindfulness (AIM) andthe Centre for Mindfulness Research andPractice (CMRP), and at Metta Foundationfor Interpersonal Mindfulness Program.He is an ACT Therapist (Acceptanceand Commitment Therapy). Since 2006,Andrea practices insight meditation withinVipassana tradition. In 2018, he editedthe Italian Edition for Edra Editore of theseminal work by Germer, Siegel and Fulton“Mindfulness and Psychotherapy” (GuildorPress)./INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE27-28 November 2021Laura BecciaCognitive - Behavioral Psychologist,Psychotherapist and Schema Therapyspecialist, Laura graduated from theUniversity of Padua, specializing in cognitivebehavioral therapy at Dr. Sassaroli’s School ofCognitive Studies in Milan. She is a certifiedTherapist and Supervisor recognized by theInternational Society of Schema Therapy(ISST). Member of the Institute of CognitiveSciences and co-founder of the ItalianSociety for Schema Therapy as well as headof the Schema Therapy Center of Saronnoin the Integrated Psychotherapy Center.Laura is also co-founder of CIDA, the Italiancentre for eating disorders in Milan.