Events for 2026 - 2027
Mobilising Compassion is pleased to announce a series of workshops, retreats, and conferences for 2026 and 2027.
These events provide professional training in group psychotherapy and staff support, while also offering opportunities to cultivate compassion from the inside out. Join us to explore transformative practices and connect with like-minded individuals committed to making a positive impact.
Author Talks: Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy April 28th 2026
For too long, people with attachment and relational trauma have been excluded from longer-term therapy, often labelled “hard to engage” or “untreatable.” This book challenges that narrative.
Join us for an evening of stories, practical ideas, and a chance to explore the healing power of play in group psychotherapy,
4-5.30pm GMT
Mobilising Compassion Retreat 17-20th June 2027
This 4 day personal practice retreat for mental health professionals and anyone interested in developing confidence in embodied movement and action-based approaches. The weekend focuses on exploring and cultivating compassion through play, movement, and shared learning in a supportive environment.
This event will be hosted in the heart of the English Countryside at Eton Manor UK Luxury Dog-Friendly Holiday Cottages with Hot Tubs, Shropshire
Creative Approaches to Supervision - Feb 2027
This series of online workshops (21 hours in total) will explore the supervisory relationship in as an attachment relationship, with all the complexity, emotional depth, and relational dynamics this can involve. Participants will have space to bring transference, projection, and splitting into compassionate awareness within the supervisory process.
We will examine how the principles and science of compassion can support supervisors and supervisees in navigating these processes safely and effectively, with an emphasis on cultivating psychological safeness, secure-base relating, and compassionate supervisory presence.
A core focus of the workshop will be the use of role taking and chairwork within supervision. Participants will learn how to set up these methods, scaffold emotional safety, and use them to deepen reflective practice and relational understanding.
online
Facilitating Therapeutic Change through Safeness and Play - online purchase
Dr. Kate Lucre's training explores how safeness—a client's felt sense of security—supports meaningful therapeutic change. When clients experience safeness, defenses soften, curiosity grows, and they become more open to exploring difficult emotions.
Drawing on the work of Donald Winnicott, she presents therapy as a shared play space where insight, creativity, and transformation can emerge. The training covers why safeness is essential for change, how a playful therapeutic stance enhances therapy, how to recognize when safeness is lacking, and practical ways to foster both safeness and creativity in clinical work.