Understanding your tricky brain and getting to know your mind

What is a tricky brain? How well do you know your own mind?

You are invited to join a one-day workshop with Keeping Well BLMK and Dr Chris Irons, a leading expert and published psychologist to explore:

• Our tricky brain design, and how some of the emotional difficulties we face can be linked to how our mind is evolved
• How and why we struggle as human beings, in particular as keyworkers in social and health care
• The purpose of our emotions – how they can help us but why they can easily get out of balance
• Techniques to help balance our emotions and manage common difficulties that can arise

Save the date to join on Wednesday 20 September 2023 10am to 4pm (a full programme of the workshop will be sent close to time of the event).

About Keeping Well BLMK

The Keeping Well BLMK service, in partnership with the local talking therapies services, provides support for a range of emotional difficulties to key workers including NHS staff, staff providing care to others in the community and in residential homes and voluntary sector organisations in the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes area. This also includes teachers plus those working in emergency services (police, ambulance service, fire brigade).

About Chris Irons

Chris is a clinical psychologist and expert in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). He has worked with Paul Gilbert, the developer of CFT, since 1999. He is one of the leading trainers and supervisors of Compassion Focused Therapy, and regularly presents in the UK and internationally on CFT and more generally, self-compassion and author of many CFT books. Chris has worked in the NHS for many years and is now co-director of Balanced Minds.

If you have any questions about the workshop, please get in touch with the Keeping Well BLMK team at keepingwell.blmk@nhs.net