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 🎁 www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

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 youtu.be/4iCrtgTggXA

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

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!

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 sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

📢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 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

3/3 Researchers from Technische Universität Dresden, Germany: @annimekelburg.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social @laramaliske.bsky.social @kanske.bsky.social from University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia: @jameskirby.bsky.social Journal of Affective Disorders doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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 greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

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 zurl.co/aQDtt #ACBS

📣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

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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

A massive congratulations to Dr Deanna Varley who graduated today from the University of Queensland with a 2024 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research Theses! Dr Chase Sherwell and I couldn’t be more happy for you Deanna! Woohoo!!!!!

Make a fresh start in 2025- We invite parents of Autistic children in Australia to join clinical psychologist @jameskirby.bsky.social for a free 2-hour online workshop exploring the benefits of self-compassion on parent/family #wellbeing www.tinyurl.com/arcapsc @arcap-aus.bsky.social #MentalHealth

Another workshop done to help those who want to donate blood but fear needles. Awesome to be part of this research project with UQ and Lifeblood and the whole team. The participants are just amazing!!

More evidence that "therapists cannot rely on their clinical judgement alone to assess client progress and outcomes and will depend on routine outcome monitoring to detect client deterioration".

We’ve got a bunch of free resources available including on our Compassionate Mind Research Group podcast. It has lots of tracks of compassion focused exercises, please feel free to use and share on.soundcloud.com/yvfQVpKfSAZX...

Hi. I've have just arrived here! I am a clinical psychologist, trainer, researcher and YouTube/Podcast content creator. If you would like to hear about the podcast in particular, you can find my trailer here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...

There were very large reductions in burnout & clinically significant improvements in mental health problems under both conditions. The results provide preliminary evidence that CFT-enhanced training improves secondary traumatic stress and compassion satisfaction. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Fantastic day at the UQ Learning Lab symposium. Phenomenal talks, terrific research and just a wonderful group of people. Thanks Dr Stephanie MacMahon for pulling it altogether!

Great fun to be discussing the potential value of a 4-day week as part of a panel discussion on ABCs Radio National www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

I'm excited to share with you all that my paper on A Positive Empathy Intervention to Improve Well-being on Instagram with @minzlicht.bsky.social and Victoria Oldemburgo de Melo has been accepted for publication at Emotion 😁🥳 osf.io/preprints/ps.... In this work, we tested a brief intervention 1/3

In my work with Compassion Focused Therapy we use a model of emotion regulation we call The Three Circle model which comprises threat, drive and soothing. Here is a little animation video explaining the model youtu.be/C6AgWnr0bZQ?...

Jonathan Birch on the edge of sentience - a Philosophy Bites interview podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Daily effects of a brief compassion‐focused intervention for self‐compassion. Great to be part of this with Dr Deanna Varley and Dr Chase Sherwell #365daysofcompassion bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I'm looking forward to attending and participating in the UQ Compassion Symposium next week psychology.uq.edu.au/event/4514/c... I'll be presenting on meditative deconstruction and compassion. @hohwy.bsky.social and @kevinberryman.bsky.social also presenting from the M3CS! @jameskirby.bsky.social

In a new pre-print experience sampling study led by Deanna Varley we found noticing your suffering & not acting leads to -ve emotional experience, but if you do act it leads to +ve emotional experience. Self-compassionate action for the win osf.io/preprints/ps...

Who we care about is limited – but our research shows how humans can expand their ‘moral circle’. Great to do this with @drcharlie.bsky.social theconversation.com/who-we-care-...

Can we expand our moral circles & include others typically beyond our moral boundary? Turns out we can! A Brief Compassion Focused Intervention Can Increase Moral Expansiveness: A Randomized Controlled Trial link.springer.com/article/10.1...

An absolute career highlight to be speaking as part of the 2024 Mind and Life Summer Research Institute with some amazing people on such an important topic. If you are interested in coming there is still time to apply, deadline Jan 29th, all details here: www.mindandlife.org/event/summer...

We’re excited to announce that Nature Reviews Psychology is now on Bluesky! Please help spread the word by following us and reposting.   #PsychSciSky #Psychology #socialpsyc #cogpsyc #ClinPsych #devpsy

Compassion toward others and self-compassion predict mental and physical well-being: a 5-year longitudinal study of 1090 community-dwelling adults across the lifespan www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pumped with getting these proofs today from #mindfulness on how a brief #compassion focused therapy seminar can increase moral expansiveness @drcharlie.bsky.social

It was great bringing this together with co-editors Myriam Mongrain & Dacher Keltner. Thanks to those who contributed! Expanding the science of compassion, volume II #365daysofcompassion www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....