Mindfulness and Self Compassion practices stem from the Buddhist tradition and over the last thirty years have developed in many different settings in Western society: from schools to hospitals, from therapeutic communities to prisons, from the corporate world to professional training and psychotherapy in the form of mindfulness-based stress reduction programs.
Thousands of scientific publications testify the effectiveness of mindfulness-based and self compassion interventions and this evidence, combined with the short duration and relatively low cost of group interventions, has led to a progressive expansion of intervention models that have been adapted to different populations. Interventions promoting the well-being of social workers and health care professionals, teachers and educators, caregivers and parents and clinical interventions for patients suffering from a wide range of conditions – stress, addictions, chronic pain, depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, support for cancer patients, patients with heart disease, eating disorders, respiratory problems and post-traumatic stress disorder – are now well established. All have experienced enormous benefits (Hilton L.G. et al., 2019).
In this pandemic year, more and more people have turned to stress reduction interventions. But mindfulness-based and self compassion interventions are much more than that and with this international convention we wish to take a moment to discuss and assess the clinical and research framework and compare the Italian experience with international practices in order to answer the question: “What does this particular moment of learning require from us?”.
The conference will alternate lectures by international guests with moments of mindfulness practice and will encourage discussion, inquiry and sharing in small groups.
Nicoletta Cinotti
Paola Mamone
FROM PROTOCOLS TO CLINICAL PRACTICE
Chairperson Paola Mamone – Italy
09.00|09.30 Welcoming participants
09.30|10.00 Mindfulness and Internal Family Systems
Nicoletta Cinotti – Italy
10.00|10.30 Mindful Parenting in challenging times
Susan Bogels – The Netherlands
10.30|11.30 Supporting Integrity with the MBI-TAC: cultivating competence in mindfulness teaching
Rebecca Crane – United Kingdom
11.30|12.00 Break
12.00 |12.30 Reparenting practice with
Nicoletta Cinotti – Italy
12.30|13.10 Sharing and inquiry in groups with facilitators
13.10|13.30 Plenary sharing
13.30|15.30 Break
MINDFULNESS AND HEARTFULNESS
Chairperson Nicoletta Cinotti – Italy
15.30|16.00 There is no raft: a radical phenomenology of consciousness as a tool for clinical practice and teaching mindfulness
Alessandro Giannandrea – Italy
16.00|16.30 Mindfulness, self-compassion and Psychotherapy
Christopher Germer – USA
16.30|17.00 An overview on compassion-based interventions
Maja Wrzesien – Spain
17.00|17.30 Break
17.30|18.00 Self compassion practice with
Paola Mamone – Italy
18.00|18.40 Sharing and inquiry in groups with facilitators
18.40|19.00 Plenary sharing
Chairperson Alessandro Giannandrea – Italy
9.30|10.00 How the therapeutic presence improves clinical competencies
Paola Mamone – Italy
10.00|10.30 Enquiry in mindfulness-based interventions: a technique and an art
Robert Brandsma – The Netherlands
10.30|11.00 Break
11.00|12.00 Round table “Mindfulness in the psychotherapy room”
Moderator Maria Francesca Freda – Italy
Discussants
Andrea Bassanini
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Laura Beccia
Schema Therapy
Nicola Petrocchi
Compassion Focused Therapy
Maria Beatrice Toro
Cognitivist approach
Alessandro Giannandrea
Analytical psychotherapy and existential anthropology
Nicoletta Cinotti
Interpersonal mindfulness
Paola Mamone
Self compassion in psychotherapy
12.00|12.50 Final sharing
12.50|13.00 Greetings
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Main Speakers
Susan Bögels
Robert Brandsma
Nicoletta Cinotti
Nicoletta organises Mindful Parenting training in Italy, leads meditation retreats which she alternates with clinical practice. She has written and published 4 books and numerous articles and publications.
Rebecca Crane
Christopher Germer
Alessandro Giannandrea
Paola Mamone
Maja Wrzesien
Round table
Maria Francesca Freda
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Full Professor for the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II, she is a researcher in Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology and has authored over 130 papers in the field |
Andrea Bassanini
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Clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, director of MeP – Mindfulness e Psicoterapia, Milan. Andrea is a Mindfulness Teacher for the MBSR protocol trained at the Italian Association for Mindfulness (AIM) and the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP), and at Metta Foundation for Interpersonal Mindfulness Program. He is an ACT Therapist (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). Since 2006, Andrea practices insight meditation within Vipassana tradition. In 2018, he edited the Italian Edition for Edra Editore of the seminal work by Germer, Siegel and Fulton “Mindfulness and Psychotherapy” (Guildor Press). |
Laura Beccia
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Cognitive – Behavioral Psychologist – Psychotherapist and Schema Therapy specialist, Laura graduated from the University of Padua, specializing in cognitive-behavioral therapy at Dr. Sassaroli’s School of Cognitive Studies in Milan. She is a certified Therapist and Supervisor recognized by the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST). Member of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and co-founder of the Italian Society for Schema Therapy as well as head of the Schema Therapy Center of Saronno in the Integrated Psychotherapy Center. Laura is also co-founder of CIDA, the Italian centre for eating disorders in Milan. |
Nicola Petrocchi
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Cognitive-behavioral psychologist and psychotherapist, Adjunct Professor of Psychology at John Cabot University (Rome) and lecturer in various graduate psychotherapy programs. After more than 10 years of collaboration with Paul Gilbert, he founded Compassionate Mind Italia, the Italian association for the diffusion, research and training in Compassionate Focused Therapy (CFT) in Italy. Nicola is a trainer and supervisor of CFT both in Italian and international contexts (Europe, USA and South America), and translator and editor of several books on Compassionate Focused Therapy. He is the author of several scientific publications and, together with Paul Gilbert and James Kirby, of the first 12-week group CFT protocol currently used for randomized controlled trials in America and Australia, soon to be published. |
Maria Beatrice Toro
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Psychologist and practicing psychotherapist in Rome, at the Second Centre for Cognitive-Interpersonal Therapy, of which she has been President since 2013. She is Director of the SCINT School of Specialisation in Cognitive-Interpersonal Psychotherapy, former Lecturer at LUMSA University and since 2016 she is Guest Professor at the Pontifical Faculty Educational Science – Auxilium, teaching Community Psychology, and lecturer at the Guido Carli training school in the legal professions at LUISS University in Rome. Maria Beatrice is an MBCT Instructor and her blog www.mindfulnessinterpersonale.com features both scientific and popular articles. She is the author of over one hundred publications, including over fifteen books on psychology published with publishing houses Salani, San Paolo, Franco Angeli, Whitestar, Vallardi and over eighty scientific articles in national and international journals. She is editor-in-chief since 2017 of the peer reviewed scientific journal “Models of the Mind”, Franco Angeli editions. |
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