Super excited about our upcoming 3-day Introduction to Compassion Focused Therapy workshop we’ll be running March 18-20 2026 in Brisbane. Come join Stan Steindl and me for some CFT fun. Treat yourself to a last minute Christmas gift 🎁

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Therapists don't always like all of their clients YouTube video by PREP: Early Career Psychology Training

Wha I tell my supervisees when they confess that they are seeing a client they don’t like

Therapists don't always like all of their clients
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Haven’t been able to stop playing around with the my three circles app. In screenshots below it shows the loving kindness track I did, as well as my circles pre & post. The graph is how I’ve been tracking over the last week.

Here is a link to the app:

apps.apple.com/au/app/my-th...

Absolutely thrilled to announce that My Three Circles is now available for download on Apple!

Track your emotions over time using the Three Circles, central in Compassion Focused Therapy. Also a range of audio guided exercises

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My PhD student Teagan Lloyd-Collins just had her first pub accepted in Clinical Child & Family Psychology Review!

A Compassion-Focused Approach to Support Parents After Preterm Birth

It’s available now as a preprint here:

osf.io/preprints/psya…

Congratulations!

ASPP 2025 Melbourne Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference Melbourne, November 24th - 25th, 2025

Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract

Come join this exciting community of researchers

Nov 24-25 - Register now!

#philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky

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📢Keynote speakers📢: Claire O'Callaghan, Cammi Murrup-Stewart, James Kirby, Lu Teng, Peter Godfrey-Smith

@claireocallaghan.bsky.social @cmurrupstewart.bsky.social @jameskirby.bsky.social @petergs.bsky.social

Compassion as a transdiagnostic target to reduce mental health symptoms and promote well-being - Nature Reviews Psychology Compassion, self-compassion and fears of compassion influence well-being and clinical symptoms and syndromes. In this Review, Kirby elaborates on these links to elucidate the role for compassion in th...

Compassion as a transdiagnostic target www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Researchers
from Technische Universität Dresden, Germany:
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@katfoerster.bsky.social
@laramaliske.bsky.social
@kanske.bsky.social
from University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia:
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Journal of Affective Disorders

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A complete honour to be giving the Kurt Aaron Oration for 2025 as part of the PAH Health Symposium. This year the theme is, “Innovation, inspiration and creation: It starts with a spark”. 26-29 August 2025 www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/hospital-and...

Dr. Allison Kelly presented a poster at #CPA2025 sharing findings that #SelfCompassion indirectly promoted more help-seeking intentions and motives by facilitating greater engagement with personal feelings of distress. Thank you to everyone who came to check it out!

Interested in #compassion based interventions? Learn all about their effects on #brain
Big congrats & thx to @annimekelburg.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social @laramaliske.bsky.social @jameskirby.bsky.social

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social
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What Helps Dads in Transitioning to Parenthood? New research finds that self-compassion and mindfulness can help new fathers stay well and bond with their babies.

Super cool to have our work spotlighted in this great piece in Greater Good Science Center on how to help dads. All credit to Daniel, Vincent Mancini, Trevor Mazzucchelli, and Jack for leading the work!
What Helps Dads in Transitioning to Parenthood? greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

How Research Cuts Are Hurting the Science of a Meaningful Life Everything we offer at Greater Good is based on scientific research. Now that work is being threatened.

How Research Cuts Are Hurting the Science of a Meaningful Life greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

Testing a digital and interactive scale (the three circles) to assess emotion regulation - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Testing a digital and interactive scale (the three circles) to assess emotion regulation

Have you used the Three Circle Model in your work? A new digital measure has been developed & tested with young adults, showing promising validity & reliability for capturing these systems dynamically in both clinical & research settings.
Drop your experiences & questions below
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📣Our April issue is live!

Cover: Vicarious & collective memory

Also in this issue:
🫂Compassion as a transdiagnostic mental health target
⚖️Evaluating expertise & implications for legal contexts
⚙️Cognitive mechanics

Read more: go.nature.com/4csm3JC

#psychology #psychscisky

Testing a digital and interactive scale (the three circles) to assess emotion regulation - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Testing a digital and interactive scale (the three circles) to assess emotion regulation

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A fantastic study led by my PhD student Dylan Moloney-Gibb with Chase Sherwell, Jamin Day, Sasha Lynn.

The findings support the use of this measure as a brief, dynamic scale that captures central CFT theory & can be easily used with clients or in research contexts.

An absolute honour to be speaking as part of this panal at the Perinatal Society of Australia & New Zealand at the Brisbane Convention Centre today. Our symposium was titled Beyone Birth: Compassionate Care After Birth Trauma.

Thanks Courtney

Compassion as a transdiagnostic target to reduce mental health symptoms and promote well-being

Review by James N. Kirby (@jameskirby.bsky.social)

Web: go.nature.com/43lyXqc
PDF: rdcu.be/echYo

#psychology #clinicalpsych #psychscisky

Compassion as a transdiagnostic target to reduce mental health symptoms and promote well-being - Nature Reviews Psychology Compassion, self-compassion and fears of compassion influence well-being and clinical symptoms and syndromes. In this Review, Kirby elaborates on these links to elucidate the role for compassion in th...

Just out now in @natrevpsych.bsky.social “Compassion as a transdiagnostic target to reduce mental health symptoms and promote well-being" www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Insights: Helping Self-Critical Parents Cultivate Self-Compassion And Why It’s Important – Dr James Kirby | Psychology Tools We met with Dr J Kirby, co-author of A brief compassion focused therapy intervention can help self-critical parents and their children (2023)

www.psychologytools.com/articles/ins...

Fathers’ Self-Compassion and Child Attachment Quality: Testing a Sequential Indirect Effect via Emotion Regulation Difficulties, Loneliness, and Psychological Distress in Two Paternal Samples - Mindfu... Objectives Self-compassion has emerged as a promising treatment target to promote healthy parent–child relationships, though mostly in maternal samples. The mechanisms through which self-compassion ma...

New paper out looking at self-compassion in Dad’s. Led by a super star team including Daniel van Heerden, Trevor G. Mazzucchelli, Jack D. Brett and Vincent O. Mancini. Lucky to be part of the ride

Some very cool stuff in here. Open access, just click on the link

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Here are some preliminary sketches we are going to use for a new Compassion Focused Therapy resource we have coming out soon…..super excited!!!! 🔵🔴🟢 illustrations by the brilliant Nicole Lekach

Had an excellent time at the 2025 Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine (ASBHM) on the Good Cost. My Keynote was on Compassion as a Transdiagnostic Target to help with Mental Health @UQPsych. Highly recommend this conference which will be in Auckland 2026!

Congratulations Ton-Lin for successfully passing your confirmation today. His PhD is focused on the institutional factors influencing compassion in healthcare. Very lucky to have the expertise of Prof Nathan Consedine as Associate supervisor! And yes Ton-Lin much taller than me

Examining the Impact of a Brief Compassion Focused Intervention on Everyday Experiences of Compassion in Autistic Adults Through Psychophysiology and Experience Sampling - Applied Psychophysiology and... Autistic adults experience greater rates of anxiety and depression compared to the general population. Compassion-focused therapy interventions, aimed at promoting self-compassion capabilities, have s...

Just out, led by Dr Chase Sherwell with a great team including Dr Deanna Varley and team at Minds & Hearts. We looked at daily compassion practices for Autistic adults assessing self report, experience sampling and heart rate variability link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper coming out where we evaluated a multimodal approach to investigating self-paced compassion focused interventions for autistic adults.

Before our paper is officially published, check out this AI produced 4-min podcast highlighting the findings on.soundcloud.com/k4buxmq4bEzU...

Thanks Chris!

Super excited about this one. Definitely the hardest paper I’ve written. But certainly most satisfying and rewarding. And thanks to all my friends and colleagues who listened to me during it. Hopefully be out in a few months. Now going through final editing and re-drawing of the visuals